3.0.0 2781 2022-11-01T05:02:37Z 2022-11-01T05:02:37Z Senate S 2019-11-05 116 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-11-05T20:21:21Z 2019-11-05 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2019-11-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000393 Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] John Kennedy R LA Neely N International Affairs Civil actions and liability Corporate finance and management Europe Family relationships Federal officials Foreign and international corporations Fraud offenses and financial crimes Government ethics and transparency, public corruption Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents U.S. and foreign investments Ukraine International Affairs 00 2019-11-05 Introduced in Senate 2020-05-01T15:24:03Z This bill prohibits an immediate relative of certain senior U.S. government officials from having an ownership interest of 5% or more in a Ukrainian entity. It also prohibits such a relative from being a board member, consultant, employee, or independent contractor of a Ukrainian entity.

Specifically, this prohibition shall apply to the immediate relatives of (1) the President, (2) the Vice President, (3) the head of any executive department, (4) an individual in a cabinet-level position, or (5) a Member of Congress.

The bill provides for civil penalties and imprisonment for a violation and authorizes the Department of Justice to seek an injunction to stop the prohibited conduct.

]]> A bill to prohibit the involvement of immediate family members of senior United States Government officials with Ukrainian entities. Display Title A bill to prohibit the involvement of immediate family members of senior United States Government officials with Ukrainian entities. Official Title as Introduced A bill to prohibit the involvement of immediate family members of senior United States Government officials with Ukrainian entities. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2781is/xml/BILLS-116s2781is.xml 2019-11-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.