§13109 Confidential reports and other additional requirements

Summary

Supervising ethics offices may require officers and employees (including special Government employees, as defined in 18 U.S.C. 202) to file confidential financial disclosure reports in the form the office sets. The office decides what must be reported; it can require less or more information when needed because of the criminal conflict-of-interest laws in 18 U.S.C. 202–209 or related rules, or because of the person’s job. Anyone who must file a public report under section 13103 does not have to file a confidential report too, unless extra information is requested. Subsections (a), (b), and (d) of section 13107 do not apply to these confidential reports. All information in these reports is kept confidential and not made public. The reporting rules in this subchapter replace other general reporting rules that exist to prevent conflicts of interest, except they do not replace section 7342. Filing a report does not let anyone do things that the law, an Executive order, or a rule forbids—such as receiving prohibited income, gifts, reimbursements, holding banned assets or positions, or taking part in forbidden transactions.