Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-745
Sponsor: Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2019-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Office of Government Ethics
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-24
text: 

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

 
This bill expands the duties and authorities of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and reauthorizes the OGE through FY2023.
 
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 provide public access on its website to agency records of conflicts of interest and ethics laws, rules and regulations, recusals, waivers and exemptions, and such other public records concerning conflicts of interest and ethics records required by law. The OGE shall make available to the public all financial disclosure reports and records relating to conflicts of interest waivers and other ethics determinations that are deemed 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. Each agency must (1) provide all ethics records in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format; and (2) post on its official website every issued recusal, waiver, exemption, ethics advisory opinion, ethics agreement, and certificate of divestiture.

action_date: 2020-02-21
text: 

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

 
This bill expands the duties and authorities of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and reauthorizes the OGE through FY2023.
 
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).
 
 
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. Agency ethics officials must provide specified ethics records to the OGE in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format; such information must be published on the OGE's website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325.
action_date: 2020-02-21
text: Committee on the Judiciary discharged.
action_date: 2020-02-21
text: Committee on the Judiciary discharged.
action_date: 2020-02-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Reform. H. Rept. 116-403, Part I.
action_date: 2020-02-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Reform. H. Rept. 116-403, Part I.
action_date: 2019-03-26
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 15.
action_date: 2019-03-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2019-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2019-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-24
text: Introduced in House