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Stop MUSK Act

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that officers and employees of the executive branch are required to recuse themselves in matters affecting the financial interests of their previous employers, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jun 4, 2025

Latest action (Jun 4, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary
  • Amends recusal requirements for executive branch employees to apply to those in Executive Schedule positions, special government employees, and Executive Office of the President employees.
  • Expands the definition of financial interests requiring recusal to include organizations in which the employee served during the 4 years before taking office as an officer, director, trustee, general partner, agent, attorney, consultant, contractor, or employee.
  • Expands the definition of financial interests requiring recusal to include organizations in which the employee is an active participant (excluding political organizations).
  • Requires recusal from matters affecting organizations in which the employee served as a direct competitor during the preceding 4-year period.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
6 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Patrick Ryan’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES $29,300
  • WHITE & CASE LLP $22,600
  • PALANTIR $19,800
  • TRANSDIGM GROUP $16,500
  • ANDURIL INDUSTRIES $16,500

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Patrick Ryan → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 4, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Jun 4, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 994 — Stop Musk Act · Introduced Feb 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 83%
  • HR 2737 — ELON MUSK Act · Introduced Apr 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 1145 — Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act · Introduced Feb 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 62%
  • HR 5118 — Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act · Introduced Sep 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 62%
  • HR 4015 — Safe and Open Streets Act · Introduced Jun 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%
  • HR 4831 — ENFORCE Act · Introduced Aug 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 4, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 4, 2025

Mr. Ryan (for himself, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Deluzio, Ms. Scholten, Ms. Craig, and Mrs. Sykes) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide that officers and employees of the executive branch are required to recuse themselves in matters affecting the financial interests of their previous employers, 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 “Stop Millionaires Using Service for Kickbacks Act” or the “Stop MUSK Act”.

SEC. 2. RECUSAL OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN MATTERS AFFECTING FINANCIAL INTERESTS OF PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS.

Section 208(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by striking “an officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States Government, or of any independent agency of the United States, a Federal Reserve bank director, officer, or employee, or an officer or employee of the District of Columbia, including a special Government employee” and inserting “an officer or employee in any position listed under the Executive Schedule (sections 5312 through 5316 of title 5), a special Government employee, or an officer or employee of the Executive Office of the President”; and

(2) by inserting after “organization in which he is serving as officer, director, trustee, general partner or employee,” the following: “organization for which he, during the 4-year period preceding such participation, served as an officer, director, trustee, general partner, agent, attorney, consultant, contractor, employee, or direct competitor, organization (other than a political organization described in section 527(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) in which he is an active participant,”. <all>

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