[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 393 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 393

To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct 
      for justices and judges of the courts of the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2019

  Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Mr. Casey, Mr. 
  Coons, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Harris, Ms. 
    Hirono, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Markey, Mr. Menendez, Mr. 
Sanders, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Warren, and Mr. Whitehouse) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct 
      for justices and judges of the courts of the United States.

    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 ``Supreme Court Ethics Act''.

SEC. 2. CODE OF CONDUCT.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 57 of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 964. Code of conduct
    ``Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
section, the Judicial Conference of the United States shall issue a 
code of conduct, which applies to each justice and judge of the courts 
of the United States, except that the code of conduct may include 
provisions that are applicable only to certain categories of judges or 
justices.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for 
chapter 57 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding after 
the item related to section 963 the following:

``964. Code of conduct.''.
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