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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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Elected Official Lob5 bying Prohibition Act of 2021’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROHIBITING STATE AND LOCAL ELECTED OFFI2 CIALS FROM MAKING LOBBYING CONTACTS 

3 ON BEHALF OF PRIVATE CLIENTS. 

4 (a) PROHIBITION.—The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 

5 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) is amended by inserting 

6 after section 5 the following new section: 

7 ‘‘SEC. 5A. PROHIBITION AGAINST MAKING OF LOBBYING 

8 CONTACTS ON BEHALF OF PRIVATE CLIENTS 

9 BY ELECTED OFFICIALS OF STATE AND 

10 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. 

11 ‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—A covered elected official de12 scribed in subsection (b) may not make any lobbying con13 tact under this Act on behalf of a client who is not an 

14 entity of a State or unit of local government. 

15 ‘‘(b) COVERED ELECTED OFFICIAL DESCRIBED.—In 

16 this subsection, a ‘covered elected official’ is any of the 

17 following: 

18 ‘‘(1) An individual holding a Statewide elected 

19 office in any State. 

20 ‘‘(2) An individual serving in the legislature of 

21 a State (or, in the case of the District of Columbia, 

22 an individual serving on the Council of the District 

23 of Columbia). 

24 ‘‘(3) An individual holding any elected office of 

25 a unit of local government with a population greater 

26 than 30 percent (or, in the case of an individual 


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1 holding the elected office of the chief executive of a 

2 unit of local government, greater than 15 percent) of 

3 the average population of a congressional district (as 

4 determined on the basis of the most recent decennial 

5 census). 

6 ‘‘(4) The chair of a political party of a State. 

7 ‘‘(c) STATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 

8 ‘State’ means each of the several States, the District of 

9 Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, 

10 American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and 

11 the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 

12 ‘‘(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec13 tion may be construed to prohibit a covered elected official 

14 from petitioning the Federal government on behalf of the 

15 collective interests of the people the official represents or 

16 from otherwise acting in an official capacity as a covered 

17 elected official.’’. 

18 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

19 this section shall apply with respect to lobbying contacts 

20 under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 which are 

21 made after the expiration of the 60-day period which be22 gins on the date of the enactment of this Act. 

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