Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

United States116th CongressHR-745House of Representatives
Updated: Feb 21, 2020

Summary

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.

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S-896: Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act

Introduced in Senate

  1. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

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

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  3. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325.

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  4. Committee on the Judiciary discharged.

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