Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act
United States116th CongressS-896Senate
Updated: Mar 27, 2019
Summary
Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act This bill expands the duties and authorities of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE). 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 be the central repository of all laws, rules, and regulations relating to conflicts of interest and other ethics issues, recusals, waivers, and exemptions of such laws, rules, and regulations. The OGE shall make available to the public all financial disclosure reports and records relating to conflicts of interest and other ethics issues that are determined 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.
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Timeline
Latest companion bill action
HR-745: Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019Committee on the Judiciary discharged.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Senate
Introduced in Senate
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