HR 1461
117th Congress
House
Government Operations and Politics
Federal officials
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
White House Ethics Transparency Act of 2021
Introduced: March 1, 2021
Introduced by:
Lynch, Stephen F.
Democratic
· Massachusetts
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 1, 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Mar 1, 2021
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
White House Ethics Transparency Act of 2021
This bill creates transparency requirements for ethics waivers (i.e., waivers from the requirement to sign an ethics pledge) issued to executive branch appointees.
Specifically, such ethics waivers must be transmitted to the Office of Government Ethics and made publicly available online.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Committees of jurisdiction
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