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DO-96-006: New Reporting Categories for SF 278

January 29, 1996

Section 20 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-65) amended the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require new categories of amount or value on public financial disclosure reports for assets, income and liabilities exceeding $ 1 million (except for interests of a spouse or dependent child, unless jointly held with the filer). This applies to all SF 278 reports filed on or after January 1, 1996.

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