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PUBLIC LAW 95-521—OCT. 26, 1978 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
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SEC. 307. (a) Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent the Committee, with the approval of the Judicial Conference of the United States, from requiring officers or employees of the judicial branch not covered by this title to submit confidential fuiancial statements. (b) The Committee, with the approval of the Judicial Conference, may require disclosure, in the reports filed pursuant to subsections (a) and (c) of section 302, of gifts received by a dependent child of a reporting individual if the information required to be disclosed does not exceed that which must be reported by a spouse of a reporting individual under this title. (c) Nothing in this Act requiring reporting of information shall be deemed to authorize the receipt of income, gifts, or reimbursements: the holding of assets, liabilities, or positions; or the participation in transactions that are prohibited by law or regulation. (d) The provisions of this title requiring the reporting of information shall not supersede the requirements of section 7342 of title 5, United States Code. DEFINITIONS
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SEC. 308. For the purposes of this title, the term— (1) "income" means all income from whatever source derived, including but not limited to the following items: compensation . y|?,,j,/T for services, including fees, commissions, and similar items; net and gross income ^ r i v e d from business; gains derived from dealings in property; interest; rents; royalties; dividends; annuities; income from life insurance and endowment contracts; pensions; income from discharge of indebtedness; distributive share of partnership income; and income from an interest in an estate or trust; (2) "relative" means an individual who is related to the reporting individual, as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, great aunt, great uncle, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, or who is the grandfather or grandmother of ,^,-h the spouse of the reporting individual, and shall be deemed to ini,. < elude the fiance or fiancee of the reporting individual; (3) "gift" means a payment, advance, forebearance, rendering, or deposit of money, or any thing of value, unless consideration of equal or greater value is received by the donor, but does not include— (A) bequest and other forms of inheritance; 1 (B) suitable mementos of a function honoring the reportj ing individual; (C) food, lodging, transportation, and entertainment 1-* iu j provided by a foreign government within a foreign country or by the United States Government; (D) food and beverages consumed at banquets, receptions, or similar events; or
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