US Congress Senate Bill 338 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: Introduced on February 5 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes ethics requirements for a President-elect's transition team. The bill requires a President-elect to submit to Congress a report with a list of any individual (1) for whom an application for a security clearance was submitted, by 10 days after its submission; or (2) provided a security clearance, by 10 days after it was provided. The Federal Transition Coordinator must negotiate a memorandum of understanding with the transition representative of each eligible candidate by October 1 (currently November 1) of a year during which a presidential election occurs. Each memorandum of understanding shall include an agreement that the eligible candidate will implement and enforce an ethics plan to guide the conduct of the transition beginning on the date on which the candidate becomes the President-elect. The ethics plan shall include a description of the ethics requirements that will apply to all transition team members; a description of how the transition team will address the role on the team of registered lobbyists, former registered lobbyists, persons registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, foreign nationals, other foreign agents, and transition team members with sources of income or clients that are not disclosed to the public; a Code of Ethical Conduct, to which each transition team member will sign and be subject to, that reflects the content of the ethics plans and that meets other specified requirements; and a description of how the transition team will enforce the Code of Ethical Conduct.

Transition Team Ethics Improvement Act

Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]
Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

HB1 (Related) 2019-03-14 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 39.
HB964 (Related) 2020-01-27 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 306.
SB394 (Related) 2020-03-03 - Became Public Law No: 116-121. (TXT | PDF)
HR172 (Similar To) 2019-03-06 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
HB1612 (Related) 2019-04-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
SB949 (Related) 2019-03-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/338/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s338/BILLS-116s338is.pdf