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Bill116th CongressFiled Jan 24, 2019Government Operations and Politics
H.R. 745

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

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What it doesSummary reported to house, part i (Feb 21, 2020)

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

This bill expands the duties and authorities of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and reauthorizes the OGE through FY2023.

Among other things, the bill authorizes the OGE to

  • issue subpoenas during investigations, and
  • order corrective actions (e.g., divestiture) and issue administrative remedies (e.g., suspension or demotion).

The OGE must provide ethics education and training to all designated and alternate designated agency ethics officials, who must register with, and report to, the OGE and their appointing authority. Agency ethics officials must provide specified ethics records to the OGE in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format; such information must be published on the OGE's website.

What just happenedFeb 21, 2020

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325.

Who’s behind it

Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8](D-MD)Sponsor
2 cosponsors2 D
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  1. Feb 21, 2020CalendarsH12410

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325.

  2. Feb 21, 2020DischargeH12300

    Committee on the Judiciary discharged.

    Judiciary Committee
  3. Feb 21, 2020Committee5500

    Committee on the Judiciary discharged.

    Judiciary Committee
  4. Feb 21, 2020CommitteeH12200

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Reform. H. Rept. 116-403, Part I.

    Oversight and Accountability Committee
  5. Feb 21, 2020Committee5000

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Reform. H. Rept. 116-403, Part I.

    Oversight and Accountability Committee
  6. Mar 26, 2019Committee

    Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 15.

    Oversight and Accountability Committee
  7. Mar 26, 2019Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Oversight and Accountability Committee
  8. Mar 4, 2019Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

    Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee
  9. Jan 24, 2019IntroReferralH11100

    Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

    Judiciary Committee
  10. Jan 24, 2019IntroReferralH11100

    Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

    Oversight and Accountability Committee
  11. Jan 24, 2019IntroReferralIntro-H

    Introduced in House

  12. Jan 24, 2019IntroReferral1000

    Introduced in House

Reported to House, Part IFeb 21, 20208

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

This bill expands the duties and authorities of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and reauthorizes the OGE through FY2023.

Among other things, the bill authorizes the OGE to

  • issue subpoenas during investigations, and
  • order corrective actions (e.g., divestiture) and issue administrative remedies (e.g., suspension or demotion).

The OGE must provide ethics education and training to all designated and alternate designated agency ethics officials, who must register with, and report to, the OGE and their appointing authority. Agency ethics officials must provide specified ethics records to the OGE in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format; such information must be published on the OGE's website.

Introduced in HouseJan 24, 2019

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

This bill expands the duties and authorities of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and reauthorizes the OGE through FY2023.

Among other things, the bill authorizes the OGE to

  • issue subpoenas during investigations, and
  • order corrective actions (e.g., divestiture) and issue administrative remedies (e.g., suspension or demotion).

Additionally, the OGE shall provide public access on its website to agency records of conflicts of interest and ethics laws, rules and regulations, recusals, waivers and exemptions, and such other public records concerning conflicts of interest and ethics records required by law. The OGE shall make available to the public all financial disclosure reports and records relating to conflicts of interest waivers and other ethics determinations that are deemed to be public information.

The OGE must provide ethics education and training to all designated and alternate designated agency ethics officials, who must register with, and report to, the OGE and their appointing authority. Each agency must (1) provide all ethics records in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format; and (2) post on its official website every issued recusal, waiver, exemption, ethics advisory opinion, ethics agreement, and certificate of divestiture.

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019 — Informed