One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America
2d Session
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen
S. 188
AN ACT
To amend title 31, United States Code, to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the costs of painting portraits of officers and employees of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting Act
or the EGO Act
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Prohibition on use of funds for portraits
In general
Subchapter III of chapter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
Prohibition on use of funds for portraits
No funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Federal Government may be used to pay for the painting of a portrait of an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, the head of an executive agency, or the head of an office of the legislative branch.
In this section—
the term executive agency
has the meaning given the term in section 133 of title 41; and
the term Member of Congress
includes a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress.
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Clerical amendment
The table of sections for subchapter III of chapter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to section 1354 the following new item:
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Speaker of the House of Representatives
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate