Easy to READ Act

Easy to Read Electronic and Accessible Disclosures Act or the Easy to READ Act

This bill requires Members of Congress (or candidates for congressional office) to electronically file their financial disclosure reports. Additionally, the reports must be made publicly available in a searchable database.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8927 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8927

To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the electronic 
    filing of all public financial disclosure forms, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2022

Ms. Spanberger (for herself and Mr. Johnson of South Dakota) introduced 
   the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the electronic 
    filing of all public financial disclosure forms, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Easy to Read Electronic and 
Accessible Disclosures Act'' or the ``Easy to READ Act''.

SEC. 2. ELECTRONIC FILING REQUIREMENT.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 103 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 
(5 U.S.C. App. 103) is amended by amending subsection (i) to read as 
follows:
    ``(i) Each report required under this title of a Member, Senator, 
or an individual who is a candidate for the office of Member or Senator 
shall be filed electronically with the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives or Secretary of the Senate, as the case may be, in a 
database that--
            ``(1) allows the public to search, sort, and download data 
        contained in the reports filed by criteria required to be 
        reported, including by filer name, asset, transaction type, 
        ticker symbol, notification date, amount of transaction, and 
        date of transaction;
            ``(2) allows access through an application programming 
        interface; and
            ``(3) is fully compliant with--
                    ``(A) section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 
                (29 U.S.C. 794d); and
                    ``(B) the most recent Web Content Accessibility 
                Guidelines (or successor guidelines).''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by this section shall apply on 
and after the date that is the commencement of the One Hundred and 
Eighteenth Congress.
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