Sec. 8035. Agency Ethics Officials Training and Duties
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Section 403 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended— in subsection (a), by adding a period at the end of the matter following paragraph (2); and by adding at the end the following: All designated agency ethics officials and alternate designated agency ethics officials shall register with the Director as well as with the appointing authority of the official. The Director shall provide ethics education and training to all designated and alternate designated agency ethics officials in a time and manner deemed appropriate by the Director.
Each designated agency ethics official and each alternate designated agency ethics official shall biannually attend ethics education and training, as provided by the Director under paragraph (2). Each Designated Agency Ethics Official, including the Designated Agency Ethics Official for the Executive Office of the President— shall provide to the Director, in writing, in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format, all approvals, authorizations, certifications, compliance reviews, determinations, directed divestitures, public financial disclosure reports, notices of deficiency in compliance, records related to the approval or acceptance of gifts, recusals, regulatory or statutory advisory opinions, waivers, including waivers under section 207 or 208 of title 18, United States Code, and any other records designated by the Director, unless disclosure is prohibited by law; shall, for all information described in paragraph
(1)that is permitted to be disclosed to the public under law, make the information available to the public by publishing the information on the website of the Office of Government Ethics, providing a link to download an electronic copy of the information, or providing printed paper copies of such information to the public; and may charge a reasonable fee for the cost of providing paper copies of the information pursuant to paragraph (2). For all information that is provided by an agency to the Director under paragraph
(1)of subsection (d), the Director shall make the information available to the public in a searchable, sortable, downloadable format by publishing the information on the website of the Office of Government Ethics or providing a link to download an electronic copy of the information. The Director may, upon request, provide printed paper copies of the information published under paragraph
(1)and charge a reasonable fee for the cost of printing such copies. . Section 408 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is hereby repealed.