Secret Service Recording Accountability Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4364 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4364

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to require the recording of 
communications between Secret Service agents deployed for protection of 
                            certain persons.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 2025

 Mrs. Bice (for herself and Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to require the recording of 
communications between Secret Service agents deployed for protection of 
                            certain persons.

    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 Recording 
Accountability Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. RECORDING OF COMMUNICATIONS.

    Section 3056 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(h) The Secret Service shall record all communications between 
agents deployed for the protection of a person entitled to such 
protection pursuant to this section. Such recordings shall be deleted 
not earlier than 90 days after the recording is made, except that, on 
request of any Committee set forth in paragraphs (1) through (4), the 
recording shall be retained for a period of not less than 18 months 
after the date the recording was made. In the event of an attempt to 
harm such a person or in the case of actual harm befalling such a 
person, such recordings shall be made available, upon request, to each 
of the following:
            ``(1) The Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives and of the Senate.
            ``(2) The Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 
        Representatives and of the Senate.
            ``(3) The Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the 
        House of Representatives.
            ``(4) The Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
        Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
        Governmental Affairs of the Senate.''.
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