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Week Ending November 11, 2005
S.1558 An act to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to protect family members of filers from disclosing sensitive information in a public filing and to extend for 4 years the authority to redact financial disclosure statements of judicial employees and judicial officers.
BRIEF
Family members of judicial officers and employees would be exempt from publicly filing reports disclosing personal and sensitive information if they find that publishing that information could endanger the officers or employees or their families.
Sponsor: Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
Vote: Passed Senate by Unanimous Consent November 10, 2005.
Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.
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AN ACT
To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to protect family members of filers from disclosing sensitive information in a public filing and to extend for 4 years the authority to redact financial disclosure statements of judicial employees and judicial officers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Section 105(b)(3) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting `or a family member of that individual' after `that individual'; and
(2) in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting `or a family member of that individual' after `the report'.
Section 105(b)(3)(E) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by striking `2005' each place it appears and inserting `2009'.
Passed the Senate November 10, 2005.
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