Justice is BLIND Act of 2023
Latest action · May 18, 2023 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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.
- IntroducedMay 18, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Justice is Beneficial Limitation on Investments and Necessary Disclosure Act of 2023 or the Justice is BLIND Act of 2023
This bill requires a federal judge, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a federal judge, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a federal judge.
Cosponsors 26
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 18, 2023 to Aug 2, 2024; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | Abigail Davis Spanberger | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-MP | Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-CA | John Garamendi | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-CA | Kevin Mullin | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-PA | Mary Gay Scanlon | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-CA | Norma J. Torres | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-NC | Wiley Nickel | Original | May 18, 2023 |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | May 22, 2023 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | May 22, 2023 | |
| D-LA | Troy A. Carter | May 22, 2023 | |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | May 24, 2023 | |
| D-TX | Sylvia R. Garcia | May 24, 2023 | |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Jun 9, 2023 | |
| D-KY | Morgan McGarvey | Jul 18, 2023 | |
| D-NY | Daniel S. Goldman | Aug 15, 2023 | |
| D-NM | Teresa Leger Fernandez | Aug 2, 2024 |
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 May 18, 2023 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 18, 2023Introduced in House
- May 18, 2023Referred 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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 84, May 18, 2023, page H2459.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require justices, judges, magistrate judges, or bankruptcy judges and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into qualified blind trusts, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Justice is Beneficial Limitation on Investments and Necessary Disclosure Act of 2023
- Justice is BLIND Act of 2023
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Law.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 18, 2023Introduced 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.
