I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2128 
To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require information 
on the value of any personal residence and on the balance, interest 
rate, and remaining number of years of any mortgage secured by real 
property to be included in the annual financial disclosure reports required 
to be filed under such Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2009 
Mr. SOUDER (for himself and Mr. ELLSWORTH) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration and 
the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require 
information on the value of any personal residence and 
on the balance, interest rate, and remaining number 
of years of any mortgage secured by real property to 
be included in the annual financial disclosure reports 
required to be filed under such Act. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Disclosure 
Integrity Act’’. 
SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF INFORMATION ON PERSONAL RESI-
DENCES IN ANNUAL FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE 
REPORTS. 
(a) INCLUSION OF INFORMATION ON MORTGAGES.— 
(1) AMOUNTS OWED.—Section 102(a)(4) of the 
Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 
102(a)(4)) is amended by striking ‘‘excluding—’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘which secures it’’ and 
inserting the following: ‘‘excluding any loan secured 
by a personal motor vehicle, household furniture, or 
appliances, which loan does not exceed the purchase 
price of the item which secures it’’. 
(2) 
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION.—Section 
102(a)(4) of such Act (5 U.S.C. App. 102(a)(4)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘In the 
case of a liability consisting of a mortgage secured 
by real property, the information required to be re-
ported under this paragraph shall also include the 
interest rate applicable to payments made on the 
mortgage during the preceding calendar year and 
the number of years (or portion thereof) remaining 
on the mortgage.’’. 
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(b) INCLUSION
OF INFORMATION
ON VALUE
OF 
PROPERTY.—Section 102(a)(5)(A) of such Act (5 U.S.C. 
App. 102(a)(5)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘, other than 
property used solely as a personal residence of the report-
ing individual or his spouse’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by section 2 shall apply with 
respect to reports required to be filed under section 101 
of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 on or after Janu-
ary 1, 2010. 
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