Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act
- Last Action
- 5/11/2021
Actions
- 2021-05-11Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- 2021-05-11Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-05-11 (00)
Executive Branch Comprehensive Ethics Enforcement Act
This bill 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.
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Justice
- Federal officials
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Office of Government Ethics
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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