5 U.S.C. § 13105 — Filing of reports

(a) Reports Filed With Designated Agency Ethics Official^* — Unless another part of this section says otherwise, a filer submits reports to the designated agency ethics official at the agency where the filer works (or worked, or will serve). That official must mark the date each report — and each supplemental report — is received.

(b) Reports Filed With Director of Office of Government Ethics — The President, the Vice President, and independent counsel and their appointees under chapter 40 of title 28, file with the Director of the Office of Government Ethics.

(c) Copies of Reports Transmitted to the Office of Government Ethics — Copies of reports filed by the Postmaster General, the Deputy Postmaster General, Postal Service Governors, designated agency ethics officials, certain top White House staff (listed by cross-reference to title 3), Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates, and officers, employees, and nominees needing Senate or full-Congress confirmation — except judicial-officer nominees and those in subsection (f) — must go to the Director of the Office of Government Ethics. The Director sends each nominee's report to the Senate committee handling that nomination.

(d) Availability to Public — Reports filed with the Director of the Office of Government Ethics go into that Office and, right after filing, become available to the public under this subchapter.

(e) Reports Filed With Federal Election Commission — A filer under section 13103(c) who is running for President or Vice President files with the Federal Election Commission.

(f) Reports Filed With Secretary Concerned — Uniformed-service members file with the Secretary concerned.

(g) Forms for Reporting — Each supervising ethics office must create and provide forms for this subchapter's required information.

(h) Reports Filed by Certain Government Officials — (1) Officials with whom reports are filed: (A) Reports by members and staff of Congress: (i) In general: (I) House filers — Representatives, Delegates, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, congressional employees paid by the House's Chief Administrative Officer, and employees of the Architect of the Capitol, Capitol Police, Botanic Garden, Congressional Budget Office, Government Publishing Office, Library of Congress, or Copyright Royalty Tribunal (including those leaving such jobs), plus House candidates — file with the Clerk of the House. (II) Senate filers — Senators, congressional employees paid by the Secretary of the Senate, and employees of the Government Accountability Office, Office of Technology Assessment, or Office of the Attending Physician (including those leaving such jobs), plus Senate candidates — file with the Secretary of the Senate. (ii) Other reports: an employee of a legislative agency or commission created after November 30, 1989, files as that agency's founding statute names — the Secretary of the Senate or Clerk of the House — or, if the statute doesn't say, with the Secretary of the Senate for agencies created in even years and the Clerk of the House for agencies created in odd years. (B) Judicial filers — judicial officers and employees under section 13103(f)(11) and (12) file with the Judicial Conference^* (including those leaving or about to leave such a job). (2) The date a report (or supplemental report) arrives must be noted by whichever committee or office receives it.

(i) Copies of Reports to State Officers — (1) In general: within 30 days of a Member's or Member-candidate's report being filed, the Clerk of the House or Secretary of the Senate must send a copy to the proper state officer under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, for the state the Member represents or is running in. (2) Exception: this doesn't apply to a report that is filed electronically and publicly viewable online, under the systems the Senate and House set up under the STOCK Act.

(j) Copies of Reports to Ethics Committees — (1) House: within 7 days of a report being filed with the Clerk, the Clerk must send a copy to the House Committee on Ethics. (2) Senate: within 7 days of a report being filed with the Secretary of the Senate, the Secretary must send a copy to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.

(k) Assistance of Federal Election Commission — The Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate must use the Federal Election Commission's help for candidate-related duties under this subchapter. The Commission must regularly give them a full list of registered candidates' names and addresses, and must coordinate its candidate information and notification work with them as closely as possible.

(l) Periodic Transaction Reports — Within 30 days of learning about a reportable securities transaction under section 13104(a)(5)(B) — and no later than 45 days after the transaction itself — certain filers under section 13103 (subject to any waivers or exclusions) must report that transaction. These filers are the same list as section 13103(f)(1) through (10): the President; the Vice President; senior executive branch^* officers and employees and senior uniformed-service members; employees appointed under section 3105; confidential or policymaking executive employees; senior Postal Service and Postal Regulatory Commission officials; the Director of the Office of Government Ethics and designated agency ethics officials; senior White House civilian staff holding a Presidential commission; Members of Congress; and officers or employees of Congress.