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Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2015

Introduced Apr 22, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY

Latest action · May 15, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedApr 22, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2015

Requires the Supreme Court to promulgate a code of ethics for the Justices of the Supreme Court that shall include the five canons of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges adopted by the Judicial Conference of the United States, with any amendments or modifications that the Supreme Court determines appropriate.

Cosponsors 129

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 22, 2015 to Sep 20, 2016; 27 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-NV	Dina Titus	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-TN	Jim Cooper	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-CA	Jim Costa	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Apr 22, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Apr 28, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Apr 28, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson		May 14, 2015
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		May 14, 2015
D-IL	Bill Foster		May 14, 2015
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		May 14, 2015
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		May 14, 2015
D-MI	Debbie Dingell		May 14, 2015
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		May 14, 2015
D-TX	Gene Green		May 14, 2015
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		May 14, 2015
D-CA	Jackie Speier		May 14, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern		May 14, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		May 14, 2015
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		May 14, 2015
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		May 14, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor		May 14, 2015
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		May 14, 2015
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		May 14, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		May 14, 2015
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi		May 14, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		May 14, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch		May 14, 2015
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		May 14, 2015
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		May 14, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		May 18, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		May 18, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee		May 18, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum		May 18, 2015
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		May 18, 2015
D-NY	Brian Higgins		May 18, 2015
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		May 18, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		May 18, 2015
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		May 18, 2015
D-CT	Joe Courtney		May 18, 2015
D-GA	John Lewis		May 18, 2015
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		May 18, 2015
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		May 18, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		May 18, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		May 18, 2015
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz		May 18, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		May 18, 2015
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		May 20, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		May 20, 2015
D-CA	Karen Bass		May 20, 2015
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		May 20, 2015
D-NY	Steve Israel		May 20, 2015
D-IL	Tammy Duckworth		May 20, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu		May 20, 2015
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Jun 4, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Jun 4, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Jun 4, 2015
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Jun 4, 2015
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Jun 4, 2015
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jun 4, 2015
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Jun 4, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Jun 4, 2015
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Jun 4, 2015
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Jun 4, 2015
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Jun 10, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Sep 8, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Sep 8, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Sep 8, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Sep 8, 2015
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Sep 8, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Sep 10, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Sep 10, 2015
D-GA	David Scott		Sep 10, 2015
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Sep 10, 2015
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Sep 10, 2015
D-NY	Grace Meng		Sep 10, 2015
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Sep 10, 2015
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Sep 10, 2015
D-FL	Patrick Murphy		Sep 10, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Sep 10, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Sep 10, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 11, 2015
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Sep 18, 2015
D-WI	Ron Kind		Sep 18, 2015
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Oct 21, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Oct 23, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Feb 23, 2016
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Apr 13, 2016
D-MA	William R. Keating		Apr 14, 2016
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Apr 29, 2016
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Apr 29, 2016
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Apr 29, 2016
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		May 10, 2016
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan		May 10, 2016
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		May 10, 2016
D-IN	André Carson		May 11, 2016
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		May 11, 2016
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		May 18, 2016
D-HI	Mark Takai		May 18, 2016
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		May 25, 2016
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jun 7, 2016
D-TX	Joaquin Castro		Jul 11, 2016
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Jul 12, 2016
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Jul 13, 2016
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Jul 14, 2016
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Jul 14, 2016
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Sep 20, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Apr 22, 2015
	Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee	Referred May 15, 2015

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 15, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
Apr 22, 2015Introduced in House
Apr 22, 2015Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The authority to enact this bill is derived from, but may not be limited to, Article I, Section 8.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 59, April 22, 2015, page H2418.

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1072	Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2015	Identical bill	Apr 23, 2015
HR 1960	Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2017	Reintroduced Bill	May 15, 2018

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To require the Supreme Court of the United States to promulgate a code of ethics.
Short Titles as Introduced: Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2015

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Law.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 22, 2015Introduced in House

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