FOIA IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2016

Public Law | Bills | Presidential Statements | Reports | Debates | Others

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Public Law

P.L.114-185 [130 Stat. 538 (2016)]

Bills

H.R. 1211 [Introduced in House March 15, 2013]

H.R. 1211 [Reported in House July 16, 2013]

H.R. 1211 [Engrossed in House February 25, 2014]

H.R. 1211 [Referred in Senate February 26, 2014]

S. 2520 [Introduced in Senate June 24, 2014]

S. 2520 [Reported to Senate November 20, 2014]

S. 2520 [Engrossed in Senate December 8, 2014]

H.R. 653 [Introduced in House February 2, 2015]

H.R. 653 [Reported in House January 7, 2016]

H.R. 653 [Engrossed as agreed to or passed by House January 11, 2016]

H.R. 653 [Referred in Senate January 12, 2016]

S. 337 [Introduced in Senate February 2, 2015]

S. 337 [Reported in Senate February 9, 2015]

S. 337 [Engrossed as agreed to or passed by Senate March 15, 2016]

S. 337 [Passed by House and Senate June 13, 2016]

Presidential Statements

Remarks by the President at Bill Signings of the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 and PROMESA June 30, 2016

White House Fact Sheet released in conjunction with signing of FOIA Improvement Act of 2016

Reports

Senate Report 113-287 [To accompany S. 2520 December 8, 2014]

House Report 113-155 [To accompany H.R. 1211 July 16, 2013]

Senate Report 114-4 [To accompany S. 337 February 23, 2015]

House Report 114-391 [To accompany H.R. 653 January 7, 2016]

Debates

FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014, Passage by House [Congressional Record H1887 February 25, 2014]

Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions, Introductory Remarks of Senator Patrick Leahy [Congressional Record S3942 June 24, 2014]

FOIA Improvement Act, Statements by Senator Patrick Leahy [Congressional Record S6343 December 4, 2014]

FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 (S. 2520), Passage by Senate [Congressional Record S6375 December 8, 2014]

FOIA Improvement Act, Statements by Senators Leahy and Rockefeller [Congressional Record S6442 December 9, 2014]

Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions, Statements of Senators Leahy and Cornyn  [Congressional Record S698 February 2, 2015]

FOIA Improvement Act of 2015, Statement by Senator Sherrod Brown [Congressional Record S3304 May 22, 2015]

FOIA Improvement Act of 2015, Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley [Congressional Record S1494 March 15, 2016]

Senate Amendment 3452 Proposed by Senator Cornyn and Agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent [Congressional Record S1509 March 15, 2016]

FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, House Consideration and Passage [Congressional Record H3714 June 13, 2016]

House Passage of S. 337, The FOIA Improvement Act of 2015 [Congressional Record S3823 June 13, 2016]

Others 

Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate, S. 337, February 9, 2015

Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate, H.R. 653, May 5, 2015

Wendy Ginsberg, Freedom of Information Act Legislation in the 114th Congress: Issue Summary and Side-by-Side Analysis, Congressional Research Service (2016) (analyzing the proposed 2016 legislation and summarizing some of the connections and differences between bills)