ByAlison Durkee,

Forbes Staff.

President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that orders his administration to release its full files on Jeffrey Epstein, starting the clock for the Justice Department to release documents by the end of December—though it still remains to be seen how much the agency will actually make public.

The legislation requires the DOJ to release its files on Epstein within 30 days of the bill becoming law, which happened as soon as Trump signed it on Wednesday.

That means the DOJ must release its files by Dec. 19 at the latest.