[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2456 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2456

   To expressly provide for the extraterritorial application of the 
Federal bribery and illegal gratuity statute to the President and other 
                           covered officials.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2017

Ms. Jayapal (for herself and Mr. Raskin) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To expressly provide for the extraterritorial application of the 
Federal bribery and illegal gratuity statute to the President and other 
                           covered officials.

    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 ``Safeguarding Government from Foreign 
Corruption Act''.

SEC. 2. AFFIRMING THE APPLICATION OF THE FEDERAL BRIBERY AND ILLEGAL 
              GRATUITY STATUTE TO PERSONS RESIDING AND TO ACTS 
              OCCURRING ABROAD.

    Section 201 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(f) A person, regardless of the country of his or her 
citizenship, may be convicted under this section of an offense 
committed by his or her own conduct or the conduct of another for which 
he or she is legally accountable if--
            ``(1) either the conduct that is an element of the offense 
        or the result that is such an element occurs within the United 
        States;
            ``(2) conduct occurring outside the United States is 
        sufficient under the law of the United States to constitute an 
        attempt to commit an offense within the United States; or
            ``(3) conduct occurring outside the United States is 
        sufficient under the law of the United States to constitute a 
        conspiracy to commit an offense within the United States and an 
        overt act in furtherance of such conspiracy occurs within the 
        United States.''.

SEC. 3. VIOLATIONS.

    A violation of this Act shall constitute a high crime and 
misdemeanor for the purposes of article II, section 4 of the 
Constitution of the United States.
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