Exempting Certain Career Federal Employees From Ethics Reporting Requirements

What it does

The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is amending the ethics reporting requirements to preserve the filing status of each position transferred to Schedule Policy/Career as it existed prior to being rescheduled. The effect of this rule will be to continue the exclusion of all Schedule Policy/Career employees who are not otherwise required to file public financial disclosure reports from the requirement to file, which should not adversely affect the integrity of the Government or the public's confidence in the integrity of the Government. Moreover, requiring these employees to file public financial disclosure reports would be unnecessarily burdensome to both agency ethics staff and the employees.

The Government Ethics Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

5 CFR 2634

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Government Ethics Office has published 2 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 1 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3209-AA76 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This interim final rule is effective July 23, 2026. Comments must be received on or before August 24, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 5 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register