Bars Members and their spouses from serving on or being officers of a corporate board, with strict reporting and conduct requirements for any pre-existing board service.
She will bar Members of Congress and their spouses from serving on or being officers of corporate boards.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov records H.Res.6 as agreed to in the House on January 9, 2019. The CRS summary says it amended House rules by prohibiting Members, officers, and employees of the House from serving as an officer or director of a public company.
Section 9101 of H.R.1 would amend House Rule XXIII to state: A Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may not serve on the board of directors of any for-profit entity.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Haley M. Stevens [D-MI-11] as a cosponsor of H.R.1 on January 28, 2019.
Congress.gov lists H.R.1 as Passed House, with latest Senate action on March 14, 2019: read the second time and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar.
Congress.gov records H.R.1 of the 117th Congress as Passed House on March 3, 2021, and received in the Senate on March 11, 2021. The CRS summary says it prohibited Members of the House from serving on the board of a for-profit entity.
Assessments
Stevens did not deliver the full promised federal ban: no enacted law barred all Members of Congress and their spouses from serving on or being officers of corporate boards. However, during her first term the House adopted H.Res.6, which amended House rules to bar House Members, officers, and employees from serving as officers or directors of public companies, and Stevens voted yes. She also cosponsored H.R.1, which included a broader House-member for-profit board-service ban, but that bill passed only the House and did not cover spouses. This warrants partial same-term credit, not full delivery.