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To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting personal financial interests.
Summary
- Extends federal conflict-of-interest laws to prohibit judicial officers and employees, including Federal judges and Supreme Court justices, from taking official actions that affect their personal financial interests.
- Allows the Judicial Conference of the United States to issue regulations exempting certain financial interests from conflict-of-interest rules if those interests are deemed too remote or too inconsequential to affect the integrity of judicial services.
- Requires any exemptions issued by the Judicial Conference to be adopted through formal rulemaking with public notice and comment.
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Sponsor (1)
5 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Sydney Kamlager-Dove’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NOT-EMPLOYED $24,000
- THE VISTRIA GROUP $21,600
- NULL $20,500
- JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY $10,100
- MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO $8,600
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Actions (2)
- Jul 20, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Jul 20, 2026 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 20, 2026
Ms. Kamlager-Dove (for herself, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Ramirez, and Mr. Moulton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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: “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 officers and employees of the judicial branch of the United States Government (including Federal judges and justices of the Supreme Court of the United States), 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 those officers and employees.”. <all>
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