[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5131 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5131

To ensure that requests or petitions for executive clemency are treated 
             as lobbying contacts, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2002

  Mr. Burton of Indiana (for himself, Mr. Waxman, Mr. LaTourette, Mr. 
Ose, Mr. Schrock, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Towns, Mr. Cummings, Mrs. 
 Morella, Mr. Horn, Mr. Tom Davis of Virginia, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Shays, 
   Mr. Allen, Mr. Platts, Ms. Watson of California, Mr. Turner, Mr. 
  Souder, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Duncan, Ms. Norton, Mr. Barr of 
Georgia, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mrs. Jo Ann Davis 
of Virginia, Mr. Weldon of Florida, Mr. Sullivan, Mrs. Mink of Hawaii, 
 Mr. Kucinich, Mr. Dan Miller of Florida, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Otter, Mr. 
  Putnam, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Mica, Mr. Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. 
 Blagojevich, Mr. Kanjorski, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Owens) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure that requests or petitions for executive clemency are treated 
             as lobbying contacts, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Clemency Lobbying Disclosure Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF LOBBYING CONTACTS INVOLVING REQUESTS OR PETITIONS 
              FOR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY.

    Section 3(8) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 
1602(8)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause (iii);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of clause 
                (iv) and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(v) a request or petition for a grant of 
                        executive clemency.''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)(xii), by inserting before ``made 
        to'' the following: ``except as provided in subparagraph 
        (A)(v),''.
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