---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4727"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4727"
heading: "Senate privately paid travel public website"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4727"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — Congressional Ethics"
  - "Subchapter III — Senate"
---

# §4727. Senate privately paid travel public website

- (a) **Travel disclosure—** Not later than January 1, 2008, the Secretary of the Senate shall establish a publicly available website without fee or without access charge, that contains information on travel that is subject to disclosure under paragraph 2 of rule XXXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, that includes, with respect to travel occurring on or after January 1, 2008—
  - (1) a search engine;
  - (2) uniform categorization by [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2), dates of travel, and any other common categories associated with congressional travel; and
  - (3) forms filed in the Senate relating to officially related travel.
- (b) **Retention—** The Secretary of the Senate shall maintain the information posted on the public Internet site of the Office of the Secretary under this section for a period not longer than 4 years after receiving the information.
- (c) **Extension of authority—** If the Secretary of the Senate is unable to meet the deadline established under [subsection (a)](#a), the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate may grant an extension of the Secretary of the Senate.
- (e) **1 Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No subsec. (d) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–81, title V, § 546, Sept. 14, 2007, 121 Stat. 772.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 104g of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.