The 45-day deadline
Late Congress stock trade disclosures
A member of Congress has 30 days from being notified of a trade to report it, and never more than 45 days from the trade itself. Of the 10,893 transactions disclosed from Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026, 951 (8.7%) were filed after the 45-day deadline, in 42 of 597 reports.
Source: GetSignal analysis of House Clerk and Senate STOCK Act disclosures, as of Sep 30, 2026. How we source the data.
By chamber
Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026Every transaction disclosed in the window, counted once, with the whole days from its trade date to the date the report was filed. A report is one member's filing on one date.
| Chamber | Transactions | After the deadline | Share | Median days to file | Reports | Reports after the deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | 9,826 | 541 | 5.5% | 24 | 469 | 32 (6.8%) |
| Senate | 1,067 | 410 | 38.4% | 30 | 128 | 10 (7.8%) |
One report can list hundreds of transactions, so the transaction share moves with a few large filings and the report share is the steadier measure. The largest single late report holds 191 of the House's 541 late transactions and 371 of the Senate's 410.
House members with the most reports after the deadline
10 membersRanked by reports filed after the 45-day deadline in the window, then by the transactions in them. Every report here was opened at the House Clerk and read line by line on Sep 29, 2026, and the counts are the filing's own. Past 45 days counts the transactions reported more than 45 days after the trade; within 30 days of notice counts those of them the member reported within 30 days of the notification date the form gives, on time by that clock and still past the 45-day limit.
| # | Member | Reports | Past 45 days | Within 30 days of notice | Longest gap | Original filings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott H. PetersDemocrat, California | 5 | 17 | 17 | 49 days | Jan 19, 2026May 18, 2026Jun 19, 2026Aug 17, 2026Sep 21, 2026 |
| 2 | Sheri BiggsRepublican, South Carolina | 2 | 177 | 5 | 272 days | Oct 5, 2025Dec 29, 2025 |
| 3 | Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.Democrat, California | 2 | 64 | 64 | 64 days | Nov 18, 2025Sep 4, 2026 |
| 4 | Julia LetlowRepublican, Louisiana | 1 | 211 | 0 | 447 days | Jan 13, 2026 |
| 5 | Julie JohnsonDemocrat, Texas | 1 | 76 | 0 | 455 days | Aug 5, 2026 |
| 6 | Michael A. RulliRepublican, Ohio | 1 | 22 | 0 | 619 days | Aug 7, 2026 |
| 7 | Tim WalbergRepublican, Michigan | 1 | 15 | 15 | 481 days | Jun 3, 2026 |
| 8 | Kelly MorrisonDemocrat, Minnesota | 1 | 8 | 6 | 437 days | Apr 2, 2026 |
| 9 | Ed CaseDemocrat, Hawaii | 1 | 7 | 0 | 690 days | Apr 6, 2026 |
| 10 | Rick W. AllenRepublican, Georgia | 1 | 7 | 0 | 51 days | Jun 5, 2026 |
16 more House members filed at least one report after the deadline in this window and are not in the table, either below the top ten or with a report not yet checked against the original. 10 senators did too. The Senate's public database asks for its terms to be accepted before a report opens, so Senate reports have not been checked here and no senator is named. 1 line in the checked filings is marked as amending an earlier report and is not counted.
How this is counted
The window
Disclosures filed from Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026, by filing date. A trade from before the window counts when its report was filed inside it, because that report is part of the last twelve months of filing.
The deadline
After the deadline means more than 45 whole days from the trade date to the filing date. The law's other clock, 30 days from when the member is notified, cannot be read from our data, and the 45 day limit applies whatever the notification date.
What is left out
4 transactions dated before the member's service began, since the limit covers trades made in office, and 2 whose filing date is earlier than the trade date, which is an error in the record rather than a delay. 2 of the 42 late reports were the member's first report after taking office.
What it does not say
The count says how long; it does not say why. It is not a finding about any member, and a disclosure is a record of a transaction, not evidence of anything else.
For each member's median delay over the same kind of window, see the slowest and fastest filers on the leaderboard; every member we hold filings for is in the member directory; the filings themselves, each line with its trade date, filing date and delay, are in the trades browser.
Questions
What is the STOCK Act deadline for reporting a trade?
A member of Congress must report a purchase, sale or exchange of more than $1,000 in a stock, bond or similar security within 30 days of being notified of it, and in no case later than 45 days after the transaction (5 U.S.C. 13105(l), the rule the STOCK Act added). The 45 day limit runs from the trade date whatever the notification date, so it is the one this page measures.
What does a report after the deadline tell me?
How many days passed between two dates printed on a public filing, and nothing more. It does not say why a report came when it did. The House and Senate ethics committees administer the rule, and they, not a count of days, decide what follows from a report filed after the deadline.
Why are no senators named?
The Senate's public disclosure database asks every visitor to accept its terms before a report can be opened. We have not checked Senate reports against the originals, so Senate filings count in the chamber figures above and no senator is named in the table. 10 senators filed at least one report past the limit in this window.
Why can a table figure be higher than the chamber figures?
The table prints each filing's own count, read from the House Clerk's PDF. The chamber figures count the transaction lines in our data, and a few filings list more lines than the data carries: Sheri Biggs's report of Oct 5, 2025 lists 189 transactions, and our data carries 113 of them.
