Scientific Integrity Act
Latest action · Oct 17, 2019 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 6.
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.
- IntroducedMar 13, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Scientific Integrity Act
This bill revises provisions regarding the release of scientific research results by federal agencies.
The bill prohibits specified federal employees and contractors of an agency that funds, conducts, or oversees scientific research from engaging in scientific or research misconduct or manipulating communication of scientific or technical findings.
A covered individual may disseminate scientific or technical findings by (1) participating in scientific conferences; and (2) seeking publication through peer-reviewed, professional, or scholarly journals.
The bill specifies the kinds of scientific community activities covered individuals may participate and engage in, including the reviewing of public statements and responding to media interview requests.
Each covered agency must
- develop, adopt, and enforce a scientific integrity policy and also must submit it to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Congress;
- appoint a Scientific Integrity Officer; and
- adopt and implement an administrative process and administrative appeal for dispute resolution and a training program that, among other things, provides regular scientific integrity and ethics training to employees and contractors.
OSTP must collate, organize, and publicly share all information it receives under each scientific integrity policy on its website.
Cosponsors 232
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 13, 2019 to Dec 18, 2019; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Alan S. Lowenthal | Original | Mar 13, 2019 |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Original | Mar 13, 2019 |
| D-MI | Haley M. Stevens | Original | Mar 13, 2019 |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-NM | Debra A. Haaland | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-VA | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | John Garamendi | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Raja Krishnamoorthi | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Robin L. Kelly | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Scott H. Peters | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Sean Casten | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Mar 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Mar 28, 2019 | |
| D-NH | Ann M. Kuster | Apr 4, 2019 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Apr 4, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Apr 4, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-NM | Ben Ray Luján | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Bill Foster | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Dingell | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CO | Ed Perlmutter | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Jackie Speier | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-TN | Jim Cooper | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Kathy Castor | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Richard E. Neal | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Apr 10, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Katie Hill | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-AZ | Tom O'Halleran | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Apr 12, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Bradley Scott Schneider | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Eric Swalwell | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Michael F. Doyle | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Seth Moulton | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Tom Malinowski | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-HI | Tulsi Gabbard | Apr 29, 2019 | |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Apr 30, 2019 | |
| D-HI | Ed Case | May 2, 2019 | |
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Charlie Crist | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Kathleen M. Rice | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Val Butler Demings | May 7, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Ami Bera | May 8, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | May 8, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Sean Patrick Maloney | May 8, 2019 | |
| D-IA | Abby Finkenauer | May 9, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Chrissy Houlahan | May 9, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | May 9, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | May 9, 2019 | |
| D-GA | John Lewis | May 9, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Stephanie N. Murphy | May 9, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | May 9, 2019 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | May 9, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Brendan F. Boyle | May 15, 2019 | |
| D-GA | David Scott | May 15, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Filemon Vela | May 15, 2019 | |
| D-RI | James R. Langevin | May 15, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | May 15, 2019 | |
| D-MD | John P. Sarbanes | May 15, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | May 15, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Susan Wild | May 15, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | May 20, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Daniel Lipinski | May 20, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Harley Rouda | May 20, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Joseph P. Kennedy III | May 20, 2019 | |
| D-OH | Joyce Beatty | May 20, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Lizzie Fletcher | May 20, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | May 23, 2019 | |
| D-WI | Ron Kind | May 23, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | May 28, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne, Jr. | May 28, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Marc A. Veasey | May 28, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Mike Levin | May 28, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Mikie Sherrill | May 28, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Norma J. Torres | May 28, 2019 | |
| D-AL | Terri A. Sewell | May 28, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Frederica S. Wilson | Jun 3, 2019 | |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Jun 3, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Jun 3, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | Jun 3, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Mark DeSaulnier | Jun 4, 2019 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Jun 10, 2019 | |
| D-ME | Jared F. Golden | Jun 10, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Jun 10, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Katherine M. Clark | Jun 10, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Tj Cox | Jun 10, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Conor Lamb | Jun 13, 2019 | |
| D-IA | Cynthia Axne | Jun 13, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Rick Larsen | Jun 13, 2019 | |
| D-VA | A. Donald McEachin | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-VA | Jennifer Wexton | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Theodore E. Deutch | Jun 18, 2019 | |
| D-MI | Brenda L. Lawrence | Jun 19, 2019 | |
| D-MI | Daniel T. Kildee | Jun 19, 2019 | |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Jun 19, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Donald Norcross | Jun 19, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Jun 19, 2019 | |
| D-OH | Marcia L. Fudge | Jun 19, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | Jun 19, 2019 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Jun 19, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Al Lawson, Jr. | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Gomez | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-KY | John A. Yarmuth | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Karen Bass | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-NV | Susie Lee | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Tony Cárdenas | Jun 20, 2019 | |
| D-MD | David J. Trone | Jun 21, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Denny Heck | Jun 21, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Madeleine Dean | Jun 21, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Jun 25, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Mucarsel-Powell | Jun 25, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Hakeem S. Jeffries | Jun 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Jun 25, 2019 | |
| D-DE | Lisa Blunt Rochester | Jun 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Jun 27, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Andy Kim | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-MI | Andy Levin | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-MD | Anthony G. Brown | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-CT | James A. Himes | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Joaquin Castro | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-VI | Stacey E. Plaskett | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Veronica Escobar | Jul 10, 2019 | |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Jul 11, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Joseph D. Morelle | Jul 11, 2019 | |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Jul 11, 2019 | |
| D-VA | Abigail Davis Spanberger | Jul 15, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Jul 15, 2019 | |
| D-MN | Angie Craig | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Antonio Delgado | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-LA | Cedric L. Richmond | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-AZ | Greg Stanton | Jul 18, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Henry Cuellar | Jul 18, 2019 | |
| D-SC | James E. Clyburn | Jul 18, 2019 | |
| D-CO | Jason Crow | Jul 18, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Katie Porter | Jul 18, 2019 | |
| D-GA | Lucy McBath | Jul 18, 2019 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Jul 18, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Al Green | Jul 24, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Jul 24, 2019 | |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Jul 24, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Donna E. Shalala | Jul 24, 2019 | |
| D-MP | Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan | Jul 24, 2019 | |
| D-CA | J. Luis Correa | Jul 25, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Jefferson Van Drew | Jul 25, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Kim Schrier | Jul 25, 2019 | |
| D-NM | Xochitl Torres Small | Jul 25, 2019 | |
| D-VA | Elaine G. Luria | Jul 30, 2019 | |
| D-MI | Elissa Slotkin | Jul 30, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Raul Ruiz | Jul 30, 2019 | |
| D-KS | Sharice Davids | Jul 30, 2019 | |
| D-PA | Mary Gay Scanlon | Aug 6, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Colin Z. Allred | Sep 11, 2019 | |
| D-IN | Peter J. Visclosky | Sep 12, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Lauren Underwood | Sep 25, 2019 | |
| D-VA | Robert C. "Bobby" Scott | Oct 8, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Vicente Gonzalez | Oct 8, 2019 | |
| D-NC | Alma S. Adams | Oct 17, 2019 | |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Oct 17, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Josh Gottheimer | Oct 17, 2019 | |
| D-OK | Kendra S. Horn | Oct 17, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Lois Frankel | Oct 17, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Lori Trahan | Oct 17, 2019 | |
| D-NV | Steven Horsford | Oct 17, 2019 | |
| D-TX | Sylvia R. Garcia | Oct 17, 2019 | |
| D-CT | Jahana Hayes | Oct 22, 2019 | |
| R-IN | James R. Baird | Oct 22, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Max Rose | Oct 22, 2019 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Nov 12, 2019 | |
| R-WA | Jaime Herrera Beutler | Dec 12, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Dec 18, 2019 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Referred Mar 13, 2019Markup Oct 17, 2019 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 17, 2019Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Oct 17, 2019Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 6.
- Mar 13, 2019Introduced in House
- Mar 13, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H4436 | Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX | Sep 16, 2020 |
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Nov 7, 2019H.R. 1709, Scientific Integrity ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on October 17, 2019
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 45, March 13, 2019, page H2717.
Printed hearings 3
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 116-69 | A REVIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR FISCAL YEAR 202187 pages | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Feb 27, 2020 |
| Serial No. 116-20 | OVERSIGHT HEARING ON WHEN SCIENCE GETS TRUMPED: SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY AT THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR90 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Jul 25, 2019 |
| Serial No. 116-39 | SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY IN FEDERAL AGENCIES144 pages | Science, Space, and Technology Committee | Jul 17, 2019 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 775 | Scientific Integrity Act | Related bill | Mar 13, 2019 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the America COMPETES Act to establish certain scientific integrity policies for Federal agencies that fund, conduct, or oversee scientific research, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Scientific Integrity Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
- Administrative remedies
- Congressional oversight
- Employment and training programs
- Freedom of information
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Government information and archives
- Research administration and funding
- Research ethics
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific communication
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 13, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
