Judicial Integrity Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9786 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9786

    To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit officers and
  employees of the judiciary from engaging in official acts affecting
                     personal financial interests.

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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

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                                 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.''.
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