II 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5720 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 2, 2021 
Received 
AN ACT 
To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to provide 
for a periodic transaction reporting requirement for Fed-
eral judicial officers and the online publication of finan-
cial disclosure reports of Federal judicial officers, and 
for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Courthouse Ethics and 
Transparency Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PERIODIC TRANSACTION REPORTS AND ONLINE 
PUBLICATION OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE 
REPORTS OF FEDERAL JUDICIAL OFFICERS. 
(a) PERIODIC TRANSACTION REPORTING REQUIRE-
MENT FOR FEDERAL JUDICIAL OFFICERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 103(l) of the Ethics 
in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(11) Each judicial officer.’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 
by paragraph (1) shall apply to applicable trans-
actions occurring on or after the date that is 90 
days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) ONLINE PUBLICATION OF FINANCIAL DISCLO-
SURE REPORTS OF FEDERAL JUDICIAL OFFICERS.—Sec-
tion 105 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 
U.S.C. App.) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as 
subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) ONLINE PUBLICATION OF FINANCIAL DISCLO-
SURE REPORTS OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS.— 
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‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
DATABASE.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, the 
Administrative Office of the United States Courts 
shall establish a searchable internet database to en-
able public access to any report required to be filed 
by a judicial officer under this title. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date on which a report is required to be 
filed under this title by a judicial officer, the Admin-
istrative Office of the United States Courts shall 
make the report available on the database estab-
lished under paragraph (1) in a full-text searchable, 
sortable, and downloadable format for access by the 
public. 
‘‘(3) REDACTION.—Any report made available 
on the database established under paragraph (1) 
shall not contain any information that is redacted in 
accordance with subsection (b)(3).’’. 
(c) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Section 103(l) of the Ethics in Government 
Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) (as amended by sub-
section (a)(1)) is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘, as de-
fined under section 109(12)’’; and 
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(B) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘, as 
defined under section 109(13)’’. 
(2) Section 105 of the Ethics in Government 
Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) (as amended by sub-
section (b)) is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘be 
revealing’’ and inserting ‘‘by revealing’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b)— 
(i) in paragraph (1)— 
(I) in the first sentence, by strik-
ing ‘‘be,,’’ and inserting ‘‘be,’’; and 
(II) in the third sentence, by 
striking ‘‘may be may’’ and inserting 
‘‘may be, may’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking 
‘‘described in section 109(8) or 109(10) of 
this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘who is a judicial 
officer or a judicial employee’’. 
(3) Section 107(a)(1) of the Ethics in Govern-
ment Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App) is amended in the 
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last sentence by striking ‘‘and (d)’’ and inserting 
‘‘and (e)’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 1, 
2021. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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