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S. 5070 116th Congress Senate

Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act

Official title: A bill to improve the anti-corruption and public integrity laws, and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 19, 2020 Introduced by: Elizabeth Warren Democratic · Massachusetts See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Dec 19, 2020
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 Latest action December 19, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act

This bill addresses issues of corruption and public integrity, campaign reform, and ethics in government.

Specifically, the bill

  • prohibits members of Congress, cabinet secretaries, federal judges, and other senior government officials from owning and trading individual stock or serving on corporate boards;
  • institutes a lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress, Presidents, and agency heads;
  • requires disclosure of funding or editorial conflicts of interest in rulemaking and establishes an Office of the Public Advocate;
  • requires the Supreme Court to follow the ethics rules for all other federal judges and encourages diversity on the federal bench;
  • creates a new, independent anti-corruption agency dedicated to enforcing federal ethics laws;
  • requires elected officials and candidates for federal office to disclose more financial and tax information and requires increased disclosure of corporate money behind lobbying; and
  • makes changes to the Federal Election Commission.
 Related & companion bills 9
  • HR 9029 Identical bill Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act
  • HR 964 Transition Team Ethics Improvement Act
  • HR 1382 Inaugural Fund Integrity Act
  • HR 1423 FAIR Act
  • HR 4053 Empower Act of 2019
  • S 20 Presidential Tax Transparency Act
  • S 610 Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act
  • S 2064 Electronic Court Records Reform Act of 2019
  • S 2639 Restoring Integrity to America’s Elections Act
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5070: Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-5070/
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