Royalty Transparency Act
On calendar: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- On calendar
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Sep 17, 2025
What it does
The Royalty Transparency Act would require executive branch employees, including certain advisory committee members, to report royalties received from inventions developed during government employment, including those of their spouses and dependent children. It mandates public disclosure of such royalties by agencies, requires notification of ethics waivers to congressional committees, and directs the Government Accountability Office to annually identify public health-related advisory committees whose recommendations have been implemented. The bill also requires conflict-of-interest reviews in federal acquisitions to consider royalty payments to contractors and includes a five-year sunset…
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