[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6041 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6041

    To provide that the Secretary of the Interior shall require the 
disclosure of political contributions as a condition of accepting bids 
     for oil and gas leases of Federal onshore and offshore lands.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2012

   Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Holt, and Mr. Tonko) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide that the Secretary of the Interior shall require the 
disclosure of political contributions as a condition of accepting bids 
     for oil and gas leases of Federal onshore and offshore lands.

    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 ``Obtaining Information Through 
Leasing on Money and Disclosure Act'' or the ``OIL Money Disclosure 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INFORMATION REQUIRED BEFORE GRANTING OF OIL OR GAS LEASE.

    (a) Information Required.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
issue new oil and gas leases of Federal lands under the Mineral Leasing 
Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) and submerged lands under the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) only to a bidder 
that has submitted to the Secretary a list containing the date, amount, 
and recipient of the following for the 5-year period preceding the 
submission of the bid to the Secretary:
            (1) Any payments consisting of a contribution, expenditure, 
        independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering 
        communication that is made by the bidder with respect to any 
        election for Federal office.
            (2) Any disbursement of funds (other than a payment 
        described in paragraph (1)) made by the bidder with the 
        reasonable expectation that the individual or entity will use 
        the funds to make a payment described in paragraph (1).
    (b) Publication.--The Secretary shall publish each list submitted 
under subsection (a) within 10 days after the date the Secretary 
receives the list.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section each of the terms 
``contribution'', ``expenditure'', ``independent expenditure'', 
``electioneering communication'', ``candidate'', ``election'', and 
``Federal office'' has the meaning given such term in the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.).
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