[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4698 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4698

   To protect the safety of judges by extending the authority of the 
Judicial Conference to redact sensitive information contained in their 
         financial disclosure reports, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 2017

 Mr. Jeffries introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To protect the safety of judges by extending the authority of the 
Judicial Conference to redact sensitive information contained in their 
         financial disclosure reports, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Judicial Redaction Authority Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF REDACTION AUTHORITY CONCERNING SENSITIVE SECURITY 
              INFORMATION.

    Section 105(b)(3) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``2017'' both places 
        it appears and inserting ``2018''.
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