Skip to content
PILLARS
HomeRecent BillsActionsMore
ExploreElectionsPresidential ActionsPoliticiansTrending Bills
WatchlistSettingsProfile
HomeRecent BillsActionsMore
PILLARS

The bills, politicians, and elections that shape your life, in plain English.

Get the App
Our Receipts
Sources & MethodologyApp DetailsSend Feedback
The Legal Stuff
Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceContact Us
Find Us On
© 2026 Political Pillars Inc.Simplifying politics
Congressional Stock Trading Ban
Recent Bills/Congressional Stock Trading Ban

Congressional Stock Trading Ban

IntroducedSeptember 3, 2025
Introduced11 months ago
Intro
House
Senate
Pres
Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Congress
Why This Matters

The Restore Trust in Congress Act bans members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks, commodities, futures, and options while in office. Current members would have 180 days to sell these investments. Violators would pay a fine of 10 percent of the investment's value and give up any profits.

If this passes, your representatives and senators would have to sell their individual stocks and could no longer trade while in office, removing the chance to profit from information they learn on the job.
Who this affects
Members of Congress · Spouses and dependent children · Congressional ethics offices
What changes is this bill making?
  1. 1Members of Congress, their spouses, and their dependent children could no longer buy or own individual stocks, commodities, futures, or options.
  2. 2Anyone already in office when the law passes would have 180 days to sell these investments at fair market value. Newly elected members and other newly covered people would get 90 days.
  3. 3Diversified mutual funds and ETFs, U.S. Treasury bonds, state and municipal bonds, small business ownership, and a spouse's or child's pay from their own job would still be allowed.
  4. 4Even investments held in blind trusts would have to be sold. A family trust can qualify for an exemption only if the member had no role in creating, funding, or controlling it.
  5. 5Members who sell to comply would get the same tax deferral on capital gains that executive branch officials receive when they are forced to divest.
  6. 6Breaking the rules means a fine equal to 10 percent of the investment's value plus giving up any trading profits. Fines could not be paid with campaign funds or office budgets, and every fine would be published online.
Read full document
Bill Progress1 of 4
Bills must pass the House, Senate, and be signed by the President to become law.
Intro
House
Senate
Pres
IntroducedCurrentSep 3, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Sponsors
See all 143 sponsors
House
Senate
President

The President

Donald Trump
President
Awaiting Vote
Similar Bills
House Bill · HR 253
3 of 4 · Passed Senate
Bans Congress from Trading Stocks
Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act
·Government
House Bill · HR 3388
1 of 4 · Introduced
Ban on Congress Members Trading Stocks
Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act
·Government
House Bill · HRES 725
1 of 2 · Introduced
Sets Debate Rules for 4 House Bills
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1908) to prohibit stock trading and ownership by Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children, and for other purposes.
·Government