HR 4698
115th Congress
House
Government Operations and Politics
Federal officials
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Protection of officials
Right of privacy
Supreme Court
Judicial Redaction Authority Act of 2017
Introduced: December 20, 2017
Introduced by:
Jeffries, Hakeem S.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 22, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Dec 20, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Dec 20, 2017
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Judicial Redaction Authority Act of 2017
This bill amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to extend through 2018 the authority of the Judicial Conference to redact personal and sensitive information from the financial disclosure report of a judge or judicial employee if it finds that revealing the information could endanger that individual or a family member of that individual.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Committees of jurisdiction
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