Sec. 322. Disclosure to Congress of presidential emergency action documents
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Not later than 3 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 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. The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate shall have— continuing legislative oversight jurisdiction in the Senate with respect to the proposal, creation, implementation, and execution of presidential emergency action documents; and access to any and all presidential emergency action documents.
The Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives shall have— continuing legislative oversight jurisdiction in the House of Representatives with respect to the proposal, creation, implementation, and execution of presidential emergency action documents; and access to any and all presidential emergency action documents. All officers and employees of any Federal agency shall have the duty to cooperate with the exercise of oversight jurisdiction described in this subsection.
The chairpersons and ranking members of the appropriate congressional committees, and designated staff of those committees, shall be granted all security clearances required to access, and granted access to, presidential emergency action documents, including under relevant Presidential or agency special access and compartmented access programs. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives.
The term Federal agency — has the meaning given the term agency in section 552(f) of title 5, United States Code; and includes the Executive Office of the President, the Executive Office of the Vice President, the Office of Management and Budget, and the National Security Council. The term presidential emergency action document refers to any document created by any Federal agency before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act, that is— designated as a presidential emergency action document or presidential emergency action directive; designed to implement a presidential decision or transmit a presidential request when an emergency disrupts normal executive, legislative, judicial, or other Federal Governmental processes; a Presidential Policy Directive, regardless of whether the directive is available to the public, that triggers any change in policies, procedures, or operations of the Federal Government upon the declaration by the President of an emergency; or any other document, briefing, or plan, regardless of whether the document, briefing, or plan exists in any tangible or written form, that triggers any change in operations of the Federal Government upon the declaration by the President of an emergency.