Sec. 304. Disclosures to Congress of presidential documents relating to emergency actions
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Not later than 30 days after the conclusion of the process for approval, adoption, or revision of any presidential emergency action document, the President shall submit that document to the appropriate congressional committees. Not later than 180 days after the conclusion of the process for approval, adoption, or revision of any presidential emergency action document, the head of each relevant Federal department and agency shall complete a declassification review of the document and shall make public any declassified portions of the document.
If significant portions of the document remain classified, the respective head shall release an unclassified summary of the document. Not later than 15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees all presidential emergency action documents in existence before such date of enactment. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the head of each relevant Federal department and agency shall complete a declassification review of all presidential emergency action documents in existence before such date of enactment, and shall make public any declassified portions of the documents.
If significant portions of the document remain classified, the respective head shall release an unclassified summary of the document. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees , with respect to a presidential emergency action document, means— the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and any other committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives with jurisdiction over the subject matter addressed in the presidential emergency action document.
The term presidential emergency action document means— each of the approximately 56 documents described as presidential emergency action documents in the budget justification materials for the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice submitted to Congress in support of the budget of the President for fiscal year 2018; and any other pre-coordinated legal document, without regard to whether such document was promulgated before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act, that— is designated as a presidential emergency action document ; or is designed to implement a presidential decision or transmit a presidential request when an emergency disrupts normal governmental or legislative processes.