Act of Congress Congressional FoI Fix Act

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A
BILL
To

Amend the Classified Materials Act​

The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Congressional FoI Fix Act.'

(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

(3) This Act has been authored by Speaker Talion77.

(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by President of the Senate Omegabiebel

2 - Reasons

(1) Currently, the Speaker of the House is the only individual who can answer congressional FoI requests. As the Speaker cannot access all Congressional information, it’d be useful to also have the President of the Senate be able to answer such requests, as they have access to FoI-able information that the Speaker does not have access to.

3 - Amendment

Section 8(5) of the Classified Materials Act shall be amended as follows:
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(5) FOI requests will be handled by the following parties:

(a) The Attorney General for Executive and General FOI requests;

(b) The Speaker of the House Presiding Officers of Congress in consensus for Congressional FOI requests;

(c) The Chief Justice for Judicial FOI requests;

(d) The FRB Governor for requests made to the FRB.

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Presidential Assent

This bill has received Presidential assent and is hereby signed into law.