Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to Prohibit Members from Owning Individual Stocks
Resolution H.R. 491 IH was introduced on June 9, 2025, and referred to the Committee on Ethics.
Citation and Short Title
This resolution may be cited as the “NO STOCK Resolution” or the “No Option for Stock Trading and Ownership as a Check to Keep Congress clean Resolution”.
This resolution was introduced by Ms. C. Raig, and it may be found at: H.R. 491 IH
Section 1: Short Title
Resolved, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘NO STOCK’’ or the ‘‘No Option for Stock Trading and Ownership as a Check to Keep congress clean Resolution’’.
Section 2: Prohibiting Members of House of Representatives from Owning Individual Stocks
Rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives (known as the ‘‘Code of Official Conduct’’ ) is amended by redesignating clause 22 as clause 23 and inserting after clause 21 the following:
‘‘(22) PROHIBITING MEMBERS OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM OWN -4 ING INDIVIDUAL STOCKS .—A Member,5 Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may6 not own the common stock of any indi-7 vidual public corporation.’’.