Secret Service Transparency and Accountability Act
This bill requires each office of the inspector general to offer a briefing to Congress of the contents of each of the office's semiannual reports.
The bill also prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security from delegating the Secretary's authority to prohibit the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General from conducting investigations or audits, accessing information, or issuing subpoenas.
To require inspectors general to offer a briefing of the contents of 
 each semiannual report to the appropriate committees or subcommittees 
                  of Congress, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Secret Service Transparency and 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT OF 1978.

    The Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended--
            (1) in section 5--
                    (A) by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection 
                (g); and
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (e) the 
                following:
    ``(f) Each Inspector General shall offer a briefing of the contents 
of each semiannual report prepared under this section to the 
appropriate committees or subcommittees of Congress with jurisdiction 
over the Inspector General, or at the request of any Member, committee, 
or subcommittee of Congress.'';
            (2) in section 6(a)(1)(B), in the matter preceding clause 
        (i), by inserting ``including any provision of law that 
        restricts the release of records outside of a Federal agency,'' 
        after ``other provision of law,''; and
            (3) in section 8I(b), by inserting ``may not be delegated 
        and'' after ``paragraph (2)''.
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Secret Service Transparency and Accountability Act
A bill to require inspectors general to offer a briefing of the contents of each semiannual report to the appropriate committees or subcommittees of Congress, and for other purposes.
Secret Service Transparency and Accountability Act
Sen. Murphy, Christopher