---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 4723"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "4723"
heading: "Annual report by Select Committee on Ethics"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/4723"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — Congressional Ethics"
  - "Subchapter III — Senate"
---

# §4723. Annual report by Select Committee on Ethics


The Select Committee on Ethics of the Senate shall issue an annual report due no later than January 31, describing the following:

- (1) The number of alleged violations of Senate rules received from any source, including the number raised by a Senator or staff of the committee.
- (2) A list of the number of alleged violations that were dismissed—
  - (A) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction or, in which, even if the allegations in the complaint are true, no violation of Senate rules would exist; or
  - (B) because they failed to provide sufficient facts as to any material violation of the Senate rules beyond mere allegation or assertion.
- (3) The number of alleged violations in which the committee staff conducted a preliminary inquiry.
- (4) The number of alleged violations that resulted in an adjudicatory review.
- (5) The number of alleged violations that the committee dismissed for lack of substantial merit.
- (6) The number of private letters of admonition or public letters of admonition issued.
- (7) The number of matters resulting in a disciplinary sanction.
- (8) Any other information deemed by the committee to be appropriate to describe its activities in the preceding year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–81, title V, § 554, Sept. 14, 2007, 121 Stat. 773.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 72a–1i of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.