1.This Act may be cited as the
Defund the Crooks
Act
.
2.Prohibitions on
Federal funds and other activities with respect to certain
organizations
(a)With respect to any covered organization,
the following prohibitions apply:
(1)No Federal
contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or any other form of agreement,
including the execution of a contract option, the award of a task order, or a
memorandum of understanding, may be awarded to or entered into with the covered
organization.
(A)Except as provided
in subparagraph (B), no Federal funds in any form may be provided to the
covered organization.
(B)Subparagraph (A)
does not apply to Federal funds provided as payment for goods or services
provided to the Government before the date of the enactment of this Act.
(2)No Federal employee acting in the course
and scope of employment and no Federal contractor during the performance of the
contract, may promote the covered organization in any way, including
recommending the covered organization to any person or referring any person to
the covered organization for any purpose.
(b)Termination of
certain contracts or grantsIn the case of a contract or grant
awarded—
(1)before the date of the enactment of this
Act to a covered organization, if the contract period or the duration of the
contract or grant expires more than one year after such date, such contract or
grant shall be terminated not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act; or
(2)after the date of the enactment of this Act
to an organization that becomes a covered organization after the award of the
contract or grant, such contract or grant shall be terminated
immediately.
(c)Covered
organization definedIn this
section, the term covered organization means any of the
following:
(1)An organization
that has been convicted of a violation of any Federal or State law.
(2)An organization that had its corporate
charter revoked by a State or other issuing authority due to the failure of the
organization to comply with Federal or State laws.
(3)An organization
that has filed, submitted, or transmitted a fraudulent claim with or to any
Federal or State agency authorized by law to promulgate regulations, including
the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the
Department of Labor.
(4)An organization that knowingly—
(A)employs an
individual who has been convicted of a violation of Federal or State
law;
(B)hires as a
contractor any such individual; or
(C)extends any
express, implied, or apparent authority to such an individual to act on behalf
of the organization.
(5)Any organization
that is the parent company of, subsidiary of, or subsidiary of the parent
company of, and any other company that owns 50 percent or more of, an
organization described in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), or (4).
(d)In this
section:
(1)The term
fraudulent includes, but is not limited to any activity that
would establish liability under either section 1001 of title 18, United States
Code, or section 3729 of title 31, United States Code.
(2)The term claim—
(A)means any
communication, such as a statement, record, or form, that includes any
information required by law; and
(B)includes—
(i)the
term claim as such term is defined under section 3729(c) of title
31, United States Code, and as such term is used in section 287 of title 18,
United States Code; and
(ii)the
term representation and the term entry as such terms
are used in section 1001 of title 18, United States Code.
(e)Revision of
Federal Acquisition RegulationThe Federal Acquisition Regulation
shall be revised to carry out the provisions of this Act relating to
contracts.