CLEAN Act

Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now Act or the CLEAN Act

This bill makes the Office of Congressional Ethics a permanent office within the House of Representatives by providing statutory authority for the office. (Under current law, the office operates under a House resolution and must be reauthorized during each Congress as a part of the House rules.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7137 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7137

      To enact House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, 
 (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2022

Mr. O'Halleran introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
      To enact House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, 
 (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics) into permanent law.

    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 ``Clean Legislating and Ethical 
Accountability Now Act'' or the ``CLEAN Act''.

SEC. 2. ENACTING HOUSE RESOLUTION 895 INTO PERMANENT LAW.

    House Resolution 895, One Hundred Tenth Congress, is hereby enacted 
into permanent law, except that--
            (1) the Office of Congressional Ethics shall be treated as 
        a standing committee of the House for purposes of section 
        202(i) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 
        4301(i));
            (2) references to the Committee on Standards of Official 
        Conduct shall be construed as references to the Committee on 
        Ethics;
            (3) the second sentence of section 1(b)(6)(A) shall not 
        apply;
            (4) members subject to section 1(b)(6)(B) may be 
        reappointed for a second additional term;
            (5) any individual who is the subject of a preliminary 
        review or second-phase review by the board shall be informed of 
        the right to be represented by counsel and invoking that right 
        should not be held negatively against them; and
            (6) the Office may not take any action that would deny any 
        person any right or protection provided under the Constitution 
        of the United States.
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