H.R. 6694: STOCK Act 2.0
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H.R. 6694: STOCK Act 2.0
117th Congress · introduced 2022-02-09 · Congress · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2022-02-09 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-45] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
STOCK Act 2.0
Plain summary
STOCK Act 2.0 This bill expands restrictions on investment practices and requirements for financial disclosures that apply to specified high-level government officials. In particular, the bill bars individual stock trading by (1) Members of Congress, (2) the President and Vice President, (3) Supreme Court Justices, (4) governors of the Federal Reserve Board, and (5) presidents and vice presidents of Federal Reserve banks. Additionally, the bill requires financial disclosures to include loans, contracts, and other benefits (excluding salaries, compensation, or tax refunds) from the federal government. It also requires additional officials, namely judges and senior leaders of Federal Reserve banks, to make the disclosures. Further, the bill directs supervising ethics agencies to make the disclosures publicly available in formats that are easily searchable, sortable, and downloadable.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-45] · 3 cosponsors
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Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr6694.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>
Record fed-us-cong117-hr6694 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117