SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pardon Disclosure 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF PRESIDENTIAL PARDON RE-
QUESTS TO CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS COM-
MITTEES. 
(a) DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT.—If a Member of 
Congress makes a request for a presidential pardon to be 
granted to the Member or to any other individual, the 
Member who made the request and any individual who re-
ceives the request from the Member shall each disclose the 
request to the supervising ethics committee in accordance 
with the requirements under subsection (b). 
(b) DEADLINE
FOR DISCLOSURE.—A Member of 
Congress who makes a request described in subsection (a) 
or any individual who receives a request described in sub-
section (a) shall each disclose such request to the super-
vising ethics committee— 
(1) in the case of any such request made or re-
ceived after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
not later than 30 days after the date such request 
is made or received; and 
(2) in the case of any such request made or re-
ceived during the period that begins on January 1, 
2021, and ends on the date of the enactment of this 
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Act, not later than 30 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
(c) CIVIL ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General may 
bring a civil action in an appropriate district court 
of the United States against any person who vio-
lates, or whom the Attorney General has reason to 
believe is engaging in conduct that violates, sub-
section (a). 
(2) CIVIL PENALTY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—If the court finds by a 
preponderance of the evidence that a person 
violated subsection (a), the court shall impose 
against the person a civil penalty of not more 
than $100,000. 
(B) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—A civil 
penalty under this subsection may be in addi-
tion to any other criminal or civil statutory, 
common law, or administrative remedy available 
to the United States. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) MEMBER OF CONGRESS.—The term ‘‘Mem-
ber of Congress’’ includes a Delegate or Resident 
Commissioner to the Congress. 
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(2) SUPERVISING
ETHICS
COMMITTEE.—The 
term ‘‘supervising ethics committee’’ means— 
(A) in the case of any request described in 
subsection (a) with respect to a Member of the 
Senate, the Select Committee on Ethics of the 
Senate; and 
(B) in the case of any request described in 
subsection (a) with respect to a Member of the 
House of Representatives, the Committee on 
Ethics of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 3. RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PRES-
IDENTIAL PARDON DISCLOSURE REQUIRE-
MENT. 
Clause 2 of rule XXVI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives is amended by striking the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘, except that Members, Delegates, and 
the Resident Commissioner shall also include in each an-
nual financial disclosure report required under such title 
the disclosure of any request made by the Member, Dele-
gate, or Resident Commissioner for a presidential pardon 
to be granted to the Member, Delegate, or Resident Com-
missioner or to any other individual.’’. 
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