---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 2911"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "2911"
heading: "Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/2911"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Records Management by the Archivist of the United States and by the Administrator of General Services"
---

# §2911. Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts

- (a) **In General.—** An officer or employee of an [executive agency](/usc/44/2901.md?p=13) may not create or send a record using a non-official electronic messaging account unless such officer or employee—
  - (1) copies an official electronic messaging account of the officer or employee in the original creation or transmission of the record; or
  - (2) forwards a complete copy of the record to an official electronic messaging account of the officer or employee not later than 20 days after the original creation or transmission of the record.
- (b) **Adverse Actions.—** The intentional violation of [subsection (a)](#a) (including any rules, regulations, or other implementing guidelines), as determined by the appropriate supervisor, shall be a basis for disciplinary action in accordance with subchapter I, II, or V of [chapter 75](/usc/5/chptIII/sptF/ch75.md) of title 5, as the case may be.
- (c) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) **Electronic messages.—** The term “[electronic messages](/usc/44/2901.md?p=15)” means electronic mail and other electronic messaging systems that are used for purposes of communicating between individuals.
  - (2) **Electronic messaging account.—** The term “electronic messaging account” means any account that sends [electronic messages](/usc/44/2901.md?p=15).
  - (3) **Executive agency.—** The term “[executive agency](/usc/44/2901.md?p=13)” has the meaning given that term in [section 105 of title 5](/usc/5/105.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 113–187, § 10(a), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2014.)