§13109 Confidential Reports and Other Additional Requirements

Summary

A supervising ethics office can require the officers and employees it oversees, including special Government employees (see section 202 of title 18), to submit confidential financial disclosure reports in whatever form the office sets. The office decides what must be reported and can require less or more detail than the rest of this subchapter when it thinks that is needed because of sections 202–209 of title 18, related rules, or the employee’s duties. Anyone who already must file under section 13103 does not have to file another confidential report unless more detailed information is requested. Sections 13107(a), (b), and (d) do not apply to these reports. All information given in these reports is kept secret and not released to the public. The reporting rules here replace other general reporting rules about conflicts of interest, except they do not replace section 7342. Filing a report does not allow anyone to accept pay, gifts, hold assets, or take part in transactions that laws, executive orders, or rules forbid.