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H.R. 396 · 119th Congress · Congress
TRUST in Congress Act
In committee since the day it was introduced
Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration
- IntroducedJan 14, 2025
- CommitteeJan 14, 2025
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Reform
- Stock Trading
- Lobbying
- At least 6
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q2
What it does
In the official summary
Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act or the TRUST in Congress Act
When its 103 cosponsors signed on
By the month each joined, January 2025 to July 2026
84 Democrats19 Republicans
Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act or the TRUST in Congress Act
This bill requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, 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 Member of Congress.
The Congressional Research Service summary, introduced in House, of Jan 14, 2025, served by api.congress.gov.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 6 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 19 quarterly reports filed by 6 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Common Cause; Democracy 21; Campaign Legal Center, Inc.; Transparency International U.S. (A Project of the Fund for Constitutional Govt); Project on Government Oversight. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 1 other is not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov).