S. 716: A bill to modify the requirements under the STOCK Act regarding online access to certain financial disclosure statements and related forms.

113th Congress · introduced 2013-04-11 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Became Public Law No: 113-7.

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Where it came from: introduced 2013-04-11 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Became Public Law No: 113-7. (final step reached)
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Official title

A bill to modify the requirements under the STOCK Act regarding online access to certain financial disclosure statements and related forms.

Plain summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 (STOCK Act) with respect to mandatory public, on-line reporting of financial disclosure statements by congressional staff and executive branch officers and employees. Applies mandatory public, on-line reporting of financial disclosure statements only to Members of Congress, congressional candidates, the President, the Vice President, and executive branch officers at levels I and II of the Executive Schedule who require nomination by the President and confirmation by the Senate. Extends until January 1, 2014, the deadline for: the Secretary, the Sergeant at Arms, and the Clerk to develop systems to enable the electronic filing of financial disclosure reports as well as their on-line public availability; the Director of the Office of Government Ethics to develop such systems for financial disclosure forms filed by covered executive branch officials. Repeals: (1) the prohibition against requiring a login to search or sort the data contained in the publicly available financial disclosure systems, and (2) the requirement that a login protocol with the name of the user be utilized by a person downloading data contained in the reports.

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Official text

A bill to modify the requirements under the STOCK Act regarding online access to certain financial disclosure statements and related forms.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Public Law)

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Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] · 0 cosponsors

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113s716.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/s>

Record fed-us-cong113-s716 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113