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Establishes procedures for Congress, courts, and subsequent Administrations to obtain “special access” to records from NARA that remain closed to the public, following a privilege review period by the former and incumbent Presidents the procedures governing such special access requests continue to be governed by the relevant provisions of E.O.

Codifies the process by which former and incumbent Presidents conduct reviews for executive privilege prior to public release of records by NARA (which had formerly been governed by Executive order 13489).

Establishes a process by which the President may restrict and the public may obtain access to these records after the President leaves office specifically, the PRA allows for public access to Presidential records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) beginning five years after the end of the Administration, but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years.

Establishes that Presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.Establishes in law that any incumbent Presidential records (whether textual or electronic) held on courtesy storage by the Archivist remain in the exclusive legal custody of the President and that any request or order for access to such records must be made to the President, not NARA.Allows the incumbent President to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal have been obtained in writing.Requires that the President and his staff take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records.Places the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President.Requires that Vice-Presidential records be treated in the same way as Presidential records.Establishes public ownership of all Presidential records and defines the term Presidential records.The PRA was amended in 2014, which established several new provisions. The PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of the President from private to public, and established a new statutory structure under which Presidents, and subsequently NARA, must manage the records of their Administrations. ß2201-2209, governs the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents that were created or received after Janu(i.e., beginning with the Reagan Administration).

The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C.