Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act of 2022
Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 1, 2022
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
May 19, 2022
Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
May 10, 2022
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Reform, Rules, Financial Services, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 10, 2022
Introduced in House
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Plain-English summary
Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act of 2022
This bill makes various changes to the federal framework governing judicial ethics.
Among the changes, the bill
- prohibits federal judges and Supreme Court Justices from owning individual stocks and securities;
- requires the Judicial Conference of the United States to issue regulations restricting the solicitation or acceptance of gifts in connection with a private judicial seminar;
- expresses the sense of Congress that the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges shall apply to Supreme Court Justices;
- requires federal judges and Supreme Court Justices to report on each association or interest that would require recusal, including any financial interest of a spouse or minor child who resides in the household; and
- establishes a committee to review complaints against the Supreme Court.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
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Bill text
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Committees of jurisdiction
8
- Agriculture Committee
- Committee on House Administration
- Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee
- Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee
- Financial Services Committee
- Judiciary Committee
- Oversight and Government Reform Committee
- Rules Committee
Cosponsors
30
D
Huffman, Jared
D
Neguse, Joe
Blumenauer, Earl
D
Chu, Judy
D
DeSaulnier, Mark
D
Grijalva, Raúl M.
Lee, Barbara
D
Pocan, Mark
MALONEY, CAROLYN
D
Crow, Jason
D
Meng, Grace
D
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria
Eshoo, Anna
Lowenthal, Alan
D
Khanna, Ro
D
Beyer, Donald S.
D
Watson Coleman, Bonnie
D
Carson, André
D
Cohen, Steve
D
Dean, Madeleine
D
Escobar, Veronica
D
Garcia, Sylvia R.
D
García, Jesús G. "Chuy"
Jones, Mondaire
Levin, Andy
D
Nadler, Jerrold
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
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Omar, Ilhan
Porter, Katie
D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7706: Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act of 2022. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-7706/
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