[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5289 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5289

   To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit any individual 
 serving as President or Vice President or as a Member of Congress, or 
any individual who served as an employee of the office of the President 
or Vice President or the office of a Member of Congress, from engaging 
  in any lobbying activity after serving in such a position, to amend 
   title 41, United States Code, to prohibit executive agencies from 
awarding contracts to former elected officials, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2018

  Mr. Rokita introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit any individual 
 serving as President or Vice President or as a Member of Congress, or 
any individual who served as an employee of the office of the President 
or Vice President or the office of a Member of Congress, from engaging 
  in any lobbying activity after serving in such a position, to amend 
   title 41, United States Code, to prohibit executive agencies from 
awarding contracts to former elected officials, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Restoring Integrity in our Elected 
Officials Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING LOBBYING BY FORMER ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THEIR 
              EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Prohibition.--Section 207(e) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by striking paragraphs (1) through (7) and inserting the 
following:
    ``(e) Restrictions on Elected Officials and Their Employees.--
            ``(1) Lifetime prohibition on lobbying any office of 
        federal government.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Any individual who holds a 
                position described in subparagraph (C), and any 
                immediate family member of such an individual, who, at 
                any time after such individual leaves such a position, 
                knowingly makes, with the intent to influence, any 
                communication to or appearance before any officer or 
                employee of any department, agency, or office of the 
                executive branch or the legislative branch on behalf of 
                any person (except the United States) in connection 
                with any matter on which such person seeks official 
                action by any officer or employee of such department, 
                agency, or office, shall be punished as provided in 
                section 216 of this title.
                    ``(B) Treatment of employment with lobbying 
                firms.--Any individual who holds a position described 
                in subparagraph (C), and any immediate family member of 
                such an individual, who, at any time after such 
                individual leaves such a position, accepts a position 
                as an officer, director, partner, or employee of a 
                lobbying firm under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 
                (without regard to whether or not the individual 
                engages directly in lobbying activity under such Act), 
                shall be punished as provided in section 216 of this 
                title.
                    ``(C) Positions described.--The positions described 
                in this subparagraph are the following:
                            ``(i) The President.
                            ``(ii) The Vice President.
                            ``(iii) A Member of Congress.
                            ``(iv) An employee of the office of the 
                        President, the office of the Vice President, or 
                        the office of a Member of Congress.
                            ``(v) An employee of a committee of 
                        Congress.
                            ``(vi) An employee on the leadership staff 
                        of the House of Representatives.
                            ``(vii) An employee on the leadership staff 
                        of the Senate.
                            ``(viii) An elected officer of the House of 
                        Representatives.
                            ``(ix) An elected officer of the Senate.
                    ``(D) Immediate family member defined.--In this 
                paragraph, an `immediate family member' means, with 
                respect to an individual, a father, mother, son, 
                daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife, father-in-
                law, or mother-in-law.
            ``(2) Other legislative offices.--(A) Any person who is an 
        employee of any other legislative office of the Congress to 
        whom paragraph (7)(B) applies and who, within 1 year after the 
        termination of that person's employment in such office, 
        knowingly makes, with the intent to influence, any 
        communication to or appearance before any of the persons 
        described in subparagraph (B), on behalf of any other person 
        (except the United States) in connection with any matter on 
        which such former employee seeks action by any officer or 
        employee of such office, in his or her official capacity, shall 
        be punished as provided in section 216 of this title.
            ``(B) The persons referred to in subparagraph (A) with 
        respect to appearances or communications by a former employee 
        are the employees and officers of the former legislative office 
        of the Congress of the former employee.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 207(e) of such title is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (8) and (9) as paragraphs 
        (3) and (4); and
            (2) in subparagraph (G) of paragraph (4), as so 
        redesignated, by striking ``paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), or 
        (5)'' and inserting ``paragraph (1) or (2)''.
    (c) Conforming Amendment Relating to Treatment of Vice President.--
Section 207(d)(1) of such title is amended--
            (1) by striking subparagraph (A); and
            (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
        subparagraphs (A) and (B).
    (d) Effective Date.--This section and the amendments made by this 
section shall apply with respect to any individual who leaves a 
position described in subparagraph (C) of section 207(e)(1) of title 
18, United States Code (as amended by subsection (a)), on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTS WITH CERTAIN FORMER ELECTED OFFICIALS.

    (a) Prohibition on Contracts With Certain Former Elected 
Officials.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 47 of title 41, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        section:
``Sec. 4713. Prohibition on contracts with certain former elected 
              officials
    ``(a) In General.--With respect to a contract the value of which 
would exceed $1,000,000 in any year of the contract period, an 
executive agency may not award such a contract to--
            ``(1) any former elected official of the legislative branch 
        of the United States Government;
            ``(2) an immediate family member of such former elected 
        official;
            ``(3) a former congressional employee of such former 
        elected official; or
            ``(4) any entity owned by an individual described in 
        paragraphs (1) through (3).
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Former congressional employee.--The term `former 
        congressional employee' means, with respect to a former elected 
        official of the legislative branch of the United States 
        Government, an individual who was a paid congressional employee 
        of such former elected official for any period of time.
            ``(2) Former elected official of the legislative branch of 
        the united states government.--The term `former elected 
        official of the legislative branch of the United States 
        Government' means each former--
                    ``(A) Member of the United States House of 
                Representatives;
                    ``(B) Delegate from the District of Columbia, 
                American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
                Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands;
                    ``(C) Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico; and
                    ``(D) United States Senator.
            ``(3) Immediate family member.--The term `immediate family 
        member' means, with respect to a former elected official of the 
        legislative branch of the United States Government--
                    ``(A) the spouse of such former elected official;
                    ``(B) a natural or adoptive son, daughter, brother, 
                or sister of such former elected official;
                    ``(C) a stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, or 
                stepsister of such former elected official; and
                    ``(D) a son-, daughter-, brother-, or sister-in-law 
                of such former elected official.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
        following new item:

``4713. Prohibition on contracts with certain former elected 
                            officials.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a)(1) shall 
apply with respect to any contract awarded on or after January 1, 2019.
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