[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1084 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1084

To amend title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the 
 reporting of specific dollar amounts rather than categories of value, 
 to require that a statement of net worth be included, and to require 
   that a copy of the reporting individual's most recent Federal tax 
                          return be furnished.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 1993

    Mr. Bacchus of Florida introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred jointly to the Committees on Rules, Post Office and Civil 
                       Service, and the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the 
 reporting of specific dollar amounts rather than categories of value, 
 to require that a statement of net worth be included, and to require 
   that a copy of the reporting individual's most recent Federal tax 
                          return be furnished.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Public Service Accountability Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT RELATING TO SPECIFIC DOLLAR AMOUNTS.

    Section 102 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)(B)--
                    (A) by striking ``source and type'' and inserting 
                ``source, type, and amount''; and
                    (B) by striking ``value, and an indication'' 
                through ``$1,000,000.'' and inserting ``value.'';
            (2) by striking ``category of'' in each of subsections 
        (a)(3), (a)(4), (a)(5), (f)(2), and (f)(5)(A)(ii);
            (3) in subsection (b)(2), by striking subparagraph (B), and 
        by striking ``(2)(A)'' and inserting ``(2)''; and
            (4) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by striking ``(d)(1)'' through ``$1,000,000'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as subsection 
                (d); and
                    (C) by striking ``value, instead'' through 
                ``subsection.'' in the first sentence of subsection (d) 
                (as so redesignated by subparagraph (B)) and inserting 
                ``value.''

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT RELATING TO STATEMENT OF NET WORTH.

    Section 102 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended by 
section 2, is further amended--
            (1) by adding at the end of subsection (a) the following:
            ``(8) A brief statement of the reporting individual's net 
        worth, as determined pursuant to rules adopted by the 
        supervising ethics office for the branch in which such 
        individual serves.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (B);
                    (B) by striking ``paragraphs.'' at the end of 
                subparagraph (C) and inserting ``paragraphs, and''; and
                    (C) by adding after subparagraph (C) the following:
                    ``(D) paragraph (8) of subsection (a) in accordance 
                with the rules under such paragraph.''.

SEC. 4. REQUIREMENT RELATING TO TAX INFORMATION.

    Section 102 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended by 
sections 2 and 3, is further amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(j)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any 
individual who is required to file a report pursuant to section 101 
shall include with such report a copy of the reporting individual's 
Federal tax return for the preceding taxable year.
    ``(2) If an individual is unable to comply with paragraph (1) 
because such return is not yet due (including because of an extension 
granted by the Internal Revenue Service), the individual--
            ``(A) shall include a written statement to that effect with 
        the report filed pursuant to section 101; and
            ``(B) shall file a copy of such return, in accordance with 
        the next sentence, within 30 days after filing it with the 
        Internal Revenue Service.
Any filing required under subparagraph (B) shall be made with the 
office of authority with which the individual filed the report to which 
the return should have been attached under paragraph (1), if it had 
been available at that time.
    ``(3) For the purpose of this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `Federal tax return' means any return of tax 
        imposed by chapter I of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
        (including an amended return); and
            ``(B) the term `preceding taxable year' means, with respect 
        to any report filed pursuant to section 101, the taxable year 
        immediately preceding the deadline under applicable provisions 
        of section 101 (before any extension) for filing such report.
    ``(4) Any rules necessary to carry out the purposes of this 
subsection may be prescribed by the supervising ethics office for each 
branch.
    ``(5) Nothing in this subsection requires the filing of a copy of 
the same tax return (or amendment thereto) more than once.''.

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