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
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.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-21 | Calendars | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325. | House floor actions |
| 2020-02-21 | Discharge | Committee on the Judiciary discharged. | House floor actions |
| 2020-02-21 | Committee | Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Reform. H. Rept. 116-403, Part I. | House floor actions |
| 2019-03-26 | Committee | Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 15. | House committee actions |
| 2019-03-26 | Committee | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. | House committee actions |
| 2019-03-04 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. | House committee actions |
| 2019-01-24 | IntroReferral | 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. | House floor actions |
| 2019-01-24 | IntroReferral | 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. | House floor actions |
| 2019-01-24 | IntroReferral | Introduced in House | Library of Congress |