Strengthens ethics rules and transparency for special Government employees (SGEs). It expands conflict-of-interest disqualification standards for certain SGEs, requires public posting of waivers, creates a searchable online database of covered SGEs with service-day tallies and designation reasons, restricts some official communications between SGEs and agencies that contract with or regulate large companies they own or run, and phases in fuller federal ethics and criminal restrictions once SGEs exceed specified days of service.

The bill imposes new duties on the Office of Government Ethics and agency ethics officers (including review of claimed exemptions), mandates online publication deadlines (generally 14 days for waivers), and updates related statutes (Title 5 and Title 18) and prior law to extend STOCK Act-style access to certain financial disclosure information for specified SGEs.