# 117-hr-5720: Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act

117-hr-5720, Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, is a 117th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2] (D-NC); status Received in the Senate. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 117-hr-5720
- Congress: 117
- Title: Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act
- Status: Received in the Senate.
- Introduced: 2021-10-25
- Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2] (D-NC)
- Cosponsors: 7
- Policy area: Law
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act of 2021 This bill requires federal judicial officers to file periodic transaction reports disclosing certain securities transactions. The bill also requires online publication of judicial financial disclosure reports. Specifically, the bill requires federal judicial officers to file reports within 45 days after a purchase, sale, or exchange that exceeds $1,000 in stocks, bonds, commodities futures, and other forms of securities. Additionally, the bill directs the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to establish a searchable internet database of judicial financial disclosure reports. The office must, within 90 days of the date by which a report must be filed, make the report available on the database in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format. The bill does not require the immediate and unconditional availability of reports filed by a judicial officer or employee if the Judicial Conference finds that revealing personal and sensitive formation could endanger that individual or a family member of that individual.

## Cosponsors (7)

- Rep. Issa, Darrell [R-CA-48] (R-CA), 2021-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank" [D-GA-4] (D-GA), 2021-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-12] (D-NY), 2021-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21] (R-TX), 2021-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] (D-TX), 2021-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Norman, Ralph [R-SC-5] (R-SC), 2021-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29] (D-TX), 2021-11-30T00:00:00.000Z

## Votes

| Date | Chamber | Question | Result | Yea | Nay |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2021-12-01T00:00:00.000Z | house | On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended | Passed | 422 | 4 |

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## Sources
- [117-hr-5720 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5720)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/117-hr-5720 (as of 2025-11-18).