H.R. 745

Introduced

Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act of 2019

Introduced 1/24/2019•116th Congress•House

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Latest Action

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325.

2/21/2020 • House

Summary

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.

Reported to House, Part I • 2/21/2020

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Topics & Subjects

Policy Area: Government Operations and Politics

Employment and training programsEvidence and witnessesExecutive agency funding and structureFederal officialsGovernment ethics and transparency, public corruptionGovernment information and archivesInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaOffice of Government EthicsPresidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents