Sec. 404. Improving disclosure

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Section 103(h) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Judicial Conference shall make publicly available online, at no cost, each report required under this title that is filed with the Judicial Conference in a searchable, sortable, machine readable, and downloadable format. . Section 455 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: Each justice, judge, and magistrate judge of the United States shall maintain a list of each association or interest that would require the justice, judge, or magistrate to be recused under subsection (b)(4). .

Each justice, judge, and magistrate judge of the United States shall maintain and submit to the Judicial Conference of the United States a copy of each speech or other significant oral communication made by the justice, judge or magistrate. The Judicial Conference of the United States shall maintain and make each speech or other significant oral communication submitted under paragraph

(1)available to the public in printed form, upon request, and online, at no cost, in a searchable, sortable, machine readable, and downloadable format. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Judicial Conference of the United States shall promulgate regulations regarding the types of oral communications that are required to be maintained, submitted, and made publicly available under this subsection. In this section, the term appellate court of the United States means any United States circuit court of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. In accordance with procedures established by the Judicial Conference of the United States, the audio of each open session conducted by an appellate court of the United States shall be made available online contemporaneously with the session, unless the appellate court of the United States, by a majority vote, determines that making audio of the session available online would violate the constitutional rights of any party to the proceeding. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Judicial Conference of the United States shall promulgate regulations requiring each court of the United States to make case assignment data available to the public online, at no cost, in a searchable, sortable, machine readable, and downloadable. The case assignment data made available under paragraph

(1)shall include, at a minimum, and to the extent available, the case title, docket number, case origin, filing date, and name of each authoring judge, concurring judge, and dissenting judge for each opinion issued in the case. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Judicial Conference of the United States shall promulgate regulations requiring an evaluation of, and improvements to, the website of each district court of the United States to ensure the website is easy to understand, including that it is clear how to file a complaint relating to a judge or an employee of the district court.