US Congress Senate Bill 896 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on March 27 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-27 - 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]

Expands the duties and authorities of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE). 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 be the central repository of all laws, rules, and regulations relating to conflicts of interest and other ethics issues, recusals, waivers, and exemptions of such laws, rules, and regulations. The OGE shall make available to the public all financial disclosure reports and records relating to conflicts of interest and other ethics issues that are determined 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.

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act

Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-27	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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/896/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s896/BILLS-116s896is.pdf