[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6511 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6511

 To amend section 953 of title 18, United States Code (commonly called 
     the Logan Act) to clarify the application of that section to 
                           Presidents-elect.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2016

 Mr. Huffman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 953 of title 18, United States Code (commonly called 
     the Logan Act) to clarify the application of that section to 
                           Presidents-elect.

    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 ``One President at a Time Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. LOGAN ACT AMENDMENT.

    Section 953 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end of the first paragraph the following: ``For the purposes of 
this section, a President-elect, or anyone acting on that President-
elect's behalf, is subject to the prohibitions of this section.''.
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