House - 02/21/2020 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325. (All Actions)
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Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019
Short Title(s) as Introduced
Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019
Official Titles
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to provide for reform in the operations of the Office of Government Ethics, and for other purposes.
Actions Overview (3)
Date
Actions Overview
02/21/2020
Committee on the Judiciary discharged.
02/21/2020
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Reform. H. Rept. 116-403, Part I.
01/24/2019
Introduced in House
All Actions (9)
Date
All Actions
02/21/2020
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325.
Action By: House of Representatives
02/21/2020
Committee on the Judiciary discharged.
Action By: House of Representatives
02/21/2020
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Reform. H. Rept. 116-403, Part I.
03/26/2019
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 15.
Action By: Committee on Oversight and Reform
03/26/2019
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Action By: Committee on Oversight and Reform
03/04/2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
Action By: Committee on the Judiciary
01/24/2019
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.
Action By: House of Representatives
01/24/2019
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.
Action By: House of Representatives
01/24/2019
Introduced in House
Action By: House of Representatives
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Shown Here: Reported to House, Part I (02/21/2020)
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.
Shown Here: Reported to House, Part I (02/21/2020)
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.
Shown Here: Introduced in House (01/24/2019)
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.
