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