[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7676 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7676

    To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and 
  employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting 
                     personal financial interests.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2024

Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Norton, Ms. Lee of 
California, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, and Mrs. 
   Ramirez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and 
  employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting 
                     personal financial interests.

    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 Integrity Act''.

SEC. 2. ACTS AFFECTING A PERSONAL FINANCIAL INTEREST.

    (a) Judicial Conflicts of Interest.--Section 208(a) of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after ``of the United 
States Government,'' the following: ``or of the judicial branch of the 
United States Government, including a Federal judge or a justice of the 
Supreme Court of the United States,''.
    (b) Regulatory Waiver.--Section 208(b) of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``parties.'' and 
        inserting ``parties; or'' ; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) if, by regulation issued by the Judicial Conference 
        of the United States applicable to all judicial officers and 
        employees covered by this section, with public notice and 
        comment, the financial interest has been exempted from the 
        requirements of subsection (a) as being too remote or too 
        inconsequential to affect the integrity of the services of the 
        Government officers or employees to which such regulation 
        applies.''.
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