CONFIDENTIALITY.

SEC. 313. CONFIDENTIALITY. (a) Counseling.— All counseling shall be strictly confidential except that the Office and the employee may agree to notify the head of the employing office of the allegations. (b) Mediation.— All mediation shall be strictly confidential. (c) Hearings.— Except as provided in subsection (d), the hearings, deliberations, and decisions of the hearing board and the Select Committee on Ethics shall be confidential. (d) Final Decision of Select Committee on Ethics.— The final decision of the Select Committee on Ethics under section 308 shall be made public if the decision is in favor of the complaining Senate employee or if the decision reverses a decision of the hearing board which had been in favor of the employee. The Select Committee on Ethics may decide to release any other decision at its discretion. In the absence of a proceeding under section 308, a decision of the hearing board that is favorable to the employee shall be made public. (e) Release of Records for Judicial Review.— The records and decisions of hearing boards, and the decisions of the Select Committee on Ethics, may be made public if required for the purpose of judicial review under section 309.