{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-5720","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 5720","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to provide for a periodic transaction reporting requirement for Federal judicial officers and the online publication of financial disclosure reports of Federal judicial officers, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to provide for a periodic transaction reporting requirement for Federal judicial officers and the online publication of financial disclosure reports of Federal judicial officers, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act of 2021"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2021-10-25","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2021-12-01","vote":{"id":"117-2021-h392","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act","result":"Passed","yea":422,"nay":4,"present":0,"not_voting":7,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll392.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate.","date":"2021-12-02"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2021-12-01","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires federal judicial officers to file periodic transaction reports disclosing certain securities transactions. The bill also requires online publication of judicial financial disclosure reports."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the bill requires federal judicial officers to file reports within 45 days after a purchase, sale, or exchange that exceeds $1,000 in stocks, bonds, commodities futures, and other forms of securities."},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, the bill directs the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to establish a searchable internet database of judicial financial disclosure reports. The office must, within 90 days of the date by which a report must be filed, make the report available on the database in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill does not require the immediate and unconditional availability of reports filed by a judicial officer or employee if the Judicial Conference finds that revealing personal and sensitive formation could endanger that individual or a family member of that individual."}],"words":156},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to add Federal judicial officers to a periodic transaction reporting requirement and to require the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to publish their financial disclosure reports in an online database.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text/eh#H2EBDA77B591441BD88CAFEC66F777DC5"}]},"core_areas":["Periodic transaction reporting by Federal judicial officers","Online publication of judicial financial disclosure reports"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Adds \"each judicial officer\" to the list in section 103(l) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which the bill's title identifies as a periodic transaction reporting requirement.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text/eh#H2EBDA77B591441BD88CAFEC66F777DC5"}},{"text":"Applies the added reporting requirement to applicable transactions occurring on or after the date that is 90 days after the date of enactment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text/eh#H2EBDA77B591441BD88CAFEC66F777DC5"}},{"text":"Requires the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, within 180 days after enactment, to establish a searchable internet database giving the public access to any report a judicial officer must file under the title.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text/eh#H2EBDA77B591441BD88CAFEC66F777DC5"}},{"text":"Requires the Administrative Office to post each judicial officer's report on the database within 90 days after the report is required to be filed, in a full-text searchable, sortable, and downloadable format.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text/eh#H2EBDA77B591441BD88CAFEC66F777DC5"}},{"text":"Provides that a report on the database shall not contain information redacted under section 105(b)(3) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text/eh#H2EBDA77B591441BD88CAFEC66F777DC5"}},{"text":"Makes technical and conforming changes to sections 103, 105, and 107 of the Act, including correcting typographical errors and renumbering subsections (c) and (d) of section 105 as (d) and (e).","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text/eh#H2EBDA77B591441BD88CAFEC66F777DC5"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2021-12-01","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-5720.png","v":"ed1f9c2c7cb9","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 5720, 117th Congress: Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act. House: 422 Yea, 4 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 1 Dec 2021."}}