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115th Congress
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Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act
Introduced: February 1, 2017
Introduced by:
Baldwin, Tammy
Democratic
· Wisconsin
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Feb 1, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Feb 1, 2017
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act
This bill amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and other laws to:
- expand restrictions on federal government employees' acceptance of compensation from nongovernment sources,
- generally require certain financial-services regulators to recuse themselves from any official action that would provide a direct and substantial pecuniary benefit for a recent former employer or client,
- generally prohibit such a regulator from participating in matters that involve an individual or entity with whom the regulator is negotiating future employment,
- prohibit a federal government employee from participating in a procurement involving a contractor that had recently employed that employee, and
- expand restrictions on lobbying by certain former financial-services regulators.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
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