Executive Branch Financial Disclosure and Standards of Ethical Conduct Regulations
Key claim: Executive-branch officials now have higher dollar cutoffs before they must report gifts and travel reimbursements, and the ethics-rule exception for gifts at widely attended gatherings is raised going forward.
Abstract
(Rule · Government Ethics Office) The U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is updating its executive branch regulation on financial disclosure to reflect the retroactive statutory increase of the reporting thresholds for gifts and travel reimbursements. OGE is also updating the executive branchwide standards of ethical conduct regulation to raise the widely attended gatherings nonsponsor gifts exception dollar ceiling tied to these thresholds. This latter change is not retroactive.
Why this matters
Executive-branch officials now have higher dollar cutoffs before they must report gifts and travel reimbursements, and the ethics-rule exception for gifts at widely attended gatherings is raised going forward.