    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 119th Congress]
    [119th Congress]
    [House Document 118-187]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 1040-1042]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                    Rule XXVI

                              financial disclosure

    Sec. 1103. Financial report disclosing certain financial
    interests.

      1.  The Clerk shall send a copy of each report filed with the
    Clerk under title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 within the
    seven-day period beginning on the date on which the report is filed to
    the Committee on Ethics.

      2. For the purposes of this rule, the provisions of title I of the
    Ethics in Government Act of 1978 shall be considered Rules of the House
    as they pertain to Members, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner,
    officers, and employees of the House.

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    printed as a House document and made available to the public by August 1
    of each year.

      3. Members of the board of the Office of Congressional Ethics shall
    file annual financial disclosure reports with the Clerk of the House on
    or before May 15 of each calendar year after any year in which they
    perform the duties of that position. Such reports shall be on a form
    prepared by the Clerk that is substantially similar to form 450 of the
    Office of Government Ethics. The Clerk shall send a copy of each such
    report filed with the Clerk within the seven-day period beginning on the
    date on which the report is filed to the Committee on Ethics and shall
    have them

      The original version of this rule (formerly rule XLIV) was adopted in
    the 90th Congress, in the same resolution that redefined the
    jurisdiction of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (now
    Ethics) (H. Res. 1099, Apr. 3, 1968, p. 8803). In the 91st Congress the
    rule was amended, effective for years after 1970, to require public
    disclosure of: (1) honoraria from a single source totaling $300 or more;
    and (2) each creditor to whom was owed an unsecured loan or other
    indebtedness of $10,000 or more outstanding for at least 90 days in the
    preceding calendar year (H. Res. 796, May 26, 1970, p. 17019). It was
    further amended in the 92d Congress to bring the Delegates and Resident
    Commissioner within the definition of ``Members'' in the final sentence
    of the rule (H. Res. 5, Jan. 22, 1971, p. 144; H. Res. 1153, Oct. 13,
    1972, pp. 36021-23), and was amended in the 95th Congress to delete an
    obsolete reference (H. Res. 5, Jan. 4, 1977, pp. 53-70). The rule was
    completely amended in the 95th Congress, effective July 1, 1977, to: (1)
    broaden the sources and minimum amounts of income reported; (2) require
    reports to be filed with the Clerk as well as with the Committee on
    Standards of Official Conduct; and (3) make reports available to the
    public as printed House documents rather than having them maintained by
    the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (H. Res. 287, Mar. 2,
    1977, pp. 5933-53), but this last requirement was repealed in the 113th
    Congress (sec. 2(f), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2013, p. 26). The rule was again
    amended in the 96th Congress to incorporate by reference the relevant
    provisions of title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 as they
    pertain to Members, officers, and employees of the House (H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 15, 1979, pp. 7-16). Clause 1 was amended by the Ethics Reform Act
    of 1989 to make conforming changes in certain dates (P.L. 101-194).
    Before the House recodified its rules in the 106th Congress, this
    provision was found in former rule XLIV (H. Res. 5, Jan. 6, 1999, p.
    47). This rule was redesignated as rule XXVI in the 107th Congress (sec.
    2(s), H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 2001, p. 24). Clause 3 was added in the 110th
    Congress (H. Res. 895, Mar. 11, 2008, p. 3743). A gender-based reference
    was eliminated in the 111th Congress (sec. 2(l), H. Res. 5, Jan. 6,
    2009, p. 7). This rule was amended in the 112th Congress to reflect a
    change in committee name (sec. 2(e)(8), H. Res. 5, Jan. 5, 2011, p. 80).
    Clause 3 was amended in the 114th Congress to replace an archaic
    reference to clause 1 with an August 1 deadline (sec. 2(h), H. Res. 5,
    Jan. 6, 2015, p. 35).

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      For an in-depth discussion of this rule prepared by the Committee on
    Standards of Official Conduct (now Ethics), see the House Ethics Manual
    (110th Cong., 2d Sess.). For a requirement that the Clerk make financial
    disclosure reports available to the public in electronic form, see
    section 8 of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012
    (P.L. 112-105, as amended by P.L. 113-7).

      Pertinent provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 can be
    found at 5 U.S.C. 13101-11.