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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 2902
To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to prohibit certain elected
officials of State and local governments from making lobbying contacts
under such Act on behalf of private clients, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 28, 2021
Mr. TAYLOR (for himself and Mr. PHILLIPS) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to prohibit
certain elected officials of State and local governments
from making lobbying contacts under such Act on behalf
of private clients, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
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tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Elected Official Lob-
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bying Prohibition Act of 2021’’.
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITING STATE AND LOCAL ELECTED OFFI-
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CIALS FROM MAKING LOBBYING CONTACTS
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ON BEHALF OF PRIVATE CLIENTS.
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(a) PROHIBITION.—The Lobbying Disclosure Act of
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1995 (2 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) is amended by inserting
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after section 5 the following new section:
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‘‘SEC. 5A. PROHIBITION AGAINST MAKING OF LOBBYING
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CONTACTS ON BEHALF OF PRIVATE CLIENTS
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BY
ELECTED
OFFICIALS
OF
STATE
AND
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LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.
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‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—A covered elected official de-
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scribed in subsection (b) may not make any lobbying con-
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tact under this Act on behalf of a client who is not an
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entity of a State or unit of local government.
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‘‘(b) COVERED ELECTED OFFICIAL DESCRIBED.—In
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this subsection, a ‘covered elected official’ is any of the
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following:
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‘‘(1) An individual holding a Statewide elected
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office in any State.
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‘‘(2) An individual serving in the legislature of
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a State (or, in the case of the District of Columbia,
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an individual serving on the Council of the District
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of Columbia).
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‘‘(3) An individual holding any elected office of
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a unit of local government with a population greater
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than 30 percent (or, in the case of an individual
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holding the elected office of the chief executive of a
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unit of local government, greater than 15 percent) of
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the average population of a congressional district (as
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determined on the basis of the most recent decennial
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census).
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‘‘(4) The chair of a political party of a State.
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‘‘(c) STATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term
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‘State’ means each of the several States, the District of
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Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam,
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American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and
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the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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‘‘(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
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tion may be construed to prohibit a covered elected official
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from petitioning the Federal government on behalf of the
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collective interests of the people the official represents or
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from otherwise acting in an official capacity as a covered
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elected official.’’.
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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
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this section shall apply with respect to lobbying contacts
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under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 which are
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made after the expiration of the 60-day period which be-
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gins on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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