[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5609 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5609


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 13, 2010

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to prohibit any person 
  from performing lobbying activities on behalf of a client which is 
     determined by the Secretary of State to be a State sponsor of 
                               terrorism.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITING LOBBYING ACTIVITIES ON BEHALF OF STATE SPONSORS 
              OF TERRORISM.

    The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 27. PROHIBITING LOBBYING ACTIVITIES ON BEHALF OF STATE SPONSORS 
              OF TERRORISM.

    ``No person may perform lobbying activities on behalf of a client 
which is a country the government of which the Secretary of State has 
determined, for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export Administration 
Act of 1979 (as continued in effect pursuant to the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act), section 40 of the Arms Export Control 
Act, section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or any other 
provision of law, is a government that has repeatedly provided support 
for acts of international terrorism.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 1, 2010.

            Attest:

                                            LORRAINE C. MILLER,

                                                                 Clerk.