Sponsors (8)
The bill strengthens ethics and transparency for special Government employees to reduce favoritism and improve oversight, but it increases public disclosure, compliance costs, legal risks for complex ties, and may deter outside experts from serving.
Federal agencies, contractors, and the public: bans SGEs from soliciting or accepting large (> $1,000,000) awards and from routing awards to relatives or tied organizations, reducing conflicts of interest and favoritism in federal spending.
Taxpayers, watchdogs, and the public: requires public financial disclosures and a searchable database of many SGEs' names and days of service, increasing transparency and enabling media/oversight scrutiny of advisors' outside interests.
Federal agencies and SGEs: mandates rapid updates to FAR and 2 C.F.R. and directs OGE guidance so procurement and ethics rules align with the new criminal prohibition, improving clarity and accountability in implementation.
Many SGEs and their families: public posting of financial reports, names, and service details reduces privacy and can create reputational risk for employees and relatives.
Taxpayers and agencies: implementing and maintaining new public disclosures, a searchable database, and rewritten FAR/2 C.F.R. will impose administrative and IT costs and ongoing resource burdens.
SGEs: criminal penalties plus a $1,000,000 threshold risk prosecuting individuals for complex or indirect ties and create an arbitrary cutoff that may leave smaller but meaningful influence risks unaddressed.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Dave Min · Last progress December 11, 2025
Prohibits many special Government employees (SGEs) from demanding, seeking, receiving, accepting, or agreeing to accept covered Federal awards for themselves or certain relatives, household members, or connected organizations, with narrow exceptions for advisory committee members, low‑level SGEs, and student SGEs. Requires agencies to change procurement and grant rules within 60 days, directs the Office of Government Ethics to issue guidance, expands public disclosure of SGE financial reports, and creates a public searchable database listing covered SGEs and basic service details.