‘‘(iii) a Code of Ethical Conduct, to 
which each transition team member will 
sign and be subject to, that reflects the con-
tent of the ethics plans under this para-
graph and at a minimum requires each 
transition team member to— 
‘‘(I) seek authorization from tran-
sition team leaders or their designees 
before seeking, on behalf of the transi-
tion, access to any nonpublic informa-
tion; 
‘‘(II) keep confidential any non-
public information provided in the 
course of the duties of the member with 
the transition and exclusively use such 
information for the purposes of the 
transition; and 
‘‘(III) not use any nonpublic in-
formation provided in the course of 
transition duties, in any manner, for 
personal or private gain for the mem-
ber or any other party at any time 
during or after the transition; and 
‘‘(iv) a description of how the transi-
tion team will enforce the Code of Ethical 
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Conduct, including the names of the transi-
tion team members responsible for enforce-
ment, oversight, and compliance. 
‘‘(C) PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.—The transition 
team shall make the ethics plan described in this 
paragraph publicly available on the website of 
the General Services Administration the earlier 
of— 
‘‘(i) the day on which the memo-
randum of understanding is completed; or 
‘‘(ii) October 1.’’; and 
(3) in section 6(b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting a semi-
colon; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(C) a list of all positions each transition team 
member has held outside the Federal Government for 
the previous 12-month period, including paid and un-
paid positions; 
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‘‘(D) sources of compensation for each transition 
team member exceeding $5,000 a year for the previous 
12-month period; 
‘‘(E) a description of the role of each transition 
team member, including a list of any policy issues 
that the member expects to work on, and a list of 
agencies the member expects to interact with, while 
serving on the transition team; 
‘‘(F) a list of any issues from which each transi-
tion team member will be recused while serving as a 
member of the transition team pursuant to the transi-
tion team ethics plan outlined in section 4(g)(3); and 
‘‘(G) an affirmation that no transition team 
member has a financial conflict of interest that pre-
cludes the member from working on the matters de-
scribed in subparagraph (E).’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘not 
later than 2 business days’’ after ‘‘public’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) The head of a Federal department or agency, or 
their designee, shall not permit access to the Federal depart-
ment or agency, or employees of such department or agency, 
that would not be provided to a member of the public for 
any transition team member who does not make the disclo-
sures listed under paragraph (1).’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 306 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 964 
[Report No. 116–382] 
A BILL 
To amend the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 
to require the development of ethics plans for 
certain transition teams, and for other purposes. 
JANUARY 27, 2020 
Reported from the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 
committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 
the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
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