March 19, 2002
The Office of Government Ethics is issuing a final rule to amend the regulation that describes financial interests that are exempt from the prohibition in 18 U.S.C. 208(a). These final rule amendments revise the existing exemption regulation by: creating a new exemption for sector mutual funds; raising the de minimis exemption for matters affecting interests in securities from $5,000 to $15,000; and creating an exemption that permits an employee to act in certain particular matters that affect an entity in which the employee owns securities, where the entity is not a party to the matter.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2002-03-19/pdf/02-6617.pdf