I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 577 
To provide that a former Member of Congress receiving compensation as 
a lobbyist shall be ineligible to receive certain Federal retirement benefits 
or to use certain congressional benefits and services, to require each 
Member of Congress to post on the Member’s official public website 
a hyperlink to the most recent annual financial disclosure report filed 
by the Member under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, to prohibit 
the use of appropriated funds to pay for the costs of travel by the 
spouse of a Member of Congress who accompanies the Member on official 
travel, to restrict the use of travel promotional awards by Members 
of Congress who receive such awards in connection with official air 
travel, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 15, 2019 
Mr. SCHNEIDER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on 
Oversight and Reform, Rules, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide that a former Member of Congress receiving 
compensation as a lobbyist shall be ineligible to receive 
certain Federal retirement benefits or to use certain con-
gressional benefits and services, to require each Member 
of Congress to post on the Member’s official public 
website a hyperlink to the most recent annual financial 
disclosure report filed by the Member under the Ethics 
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in Government Act of 1978, to prohibit the use of appro-
priated funds to pay for the costs of travel by the spouse 
of a Member of Congress who accompanies the Member 
on official travel, to restrict the use of travel promotional 
awards by Members of Congress who receive such awards 
in connection with official air travel, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Prohibiting Perks and 
Privileges Act’’. 
SEC. 2. INELIGIBILITY OF FORMER MEMBERS RECEIVING 
COMPENSATION AS LOBBYISTS FOR CERTAIN 
BENEFITS AND SERVICES. 
(a) FORFEITURE OF BENEFITS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, a former Member of Congress may 
not be paid any covered benefit if such former Mem-
ber is— 
(A) a registered lobbyist; or 
(B) receives compensation as a direct re-
sult of lobbying activities. 
(2) COVERED BENEFITS.—For purposes of this 
subsection, the term ‘‘covered benefits’’, as used 
with respect to a former Member of Congress, means 
any payment or other benefit which is payable, by 
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virtue of service performed by such former Member, 
under any of the following: 
(A) The Civil Service Retirement System, 
including the Thrift Savings Plan. 
(B) The Federal Employees Retirement 
System, including the Thrift Savings Plan. 
(C) The Federal Employees Health Bene-
fits Program, including enhanced dental bene-
fits and enhanced vision benefits under chapters 
89A and 89B, respectively, of title 5, United 
States Code. 
(3) RULES
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this subsection shall be considered to prevent the 
payment of— 
(A) any lump-sum credit, as defined by 
section 8331(8) or 8401(19) of title 5, United 
States Code, to which a former Member of Con-
gress subject to paragraph (1) is entitled; 
(B) any contributions in the account of a 
former Member of Congress subject to para-
graph (1) in the Thrift Savings Fund which, as 
of the date on which paragraph (1) applies to 
a former Member, are nonforfeitable; or 
(C) any annuity payments with respect to 
an annuity of a former Member of Congress 
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subject to paragraph (1) to a former spouse or 
survivor who is entitled to such payments. 
(4) REGULATIONS.—Any regulations necessary 
to carry out this subsection may be prescribed by— 
(A) except as provided in subparagraph 
(B), the Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management; and 
(B) to the extent that this subsection re-
lates to the Thrift Savings Plan, by the Execu-
tive Director (as defined by section 8401(13) of 
title 5, United States Code). 
(b) PROHIBITION ON ACCESS TO CERTAIN CONGRES-
SIONAL BENEFITS AND SERVICES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, a former Member of Congress may 
not use any of the congressional benefits and serv-
ices described in paragraph (2) (except to the extent 
such benefits and services are made available to 
members of the public) at any time during which 
such former Member is— 
(A) a registered lobbyist; or 
(B) receives compensation as a direct re-
sult of lobbying activities. 
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(2) BENEFITS
AND
SERVICES
DESCRIBED.— 
The congressional benefits and services described in 
this paragraph are as follows: 
(A) Access to the Hall of the House or the 
Hall of the Senate. 
(B) Access to athletic facilities and other 
facilities available for the use of Members of 
Congress. 
(C) Access to the Members’ Dining Room 
located in the House of Representatives wing of 
the United States Capitol or the Senators’ Din-
ing Room located in the Senate wing of the 
United States Capitol. 
(D) Access to material from the House 
document room or the Senate document room. 
(E) Use of the collections in the House 
Legislative Resource Center or the Senate Li-
brary without borrowing privileges. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this subsection— 
(1) the terms ‘‘agency’’, ‘‘client’’, ‘‘covered exec-
utive branch official’’, ‘‘covered legislative branch of-
ficial’’, ‘‘lobbyist’’, ‘‘lobbying activities’’, and ‘‘lob-
bying contact’’, have the meaning given such terms 
in section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 
(2 U.S.C. 1602); 
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(2) the term ‘‘former Member of Congress’’ 
means any Member of Congress who becomes a 
former Member of Congress after the date of enact-
ment of this Act; 
(3) the term ‘‘Member of Congress’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 2106 of title 5, 
United States Code; and 
(4) the term ‘‘registered lobbyist’’ means a lob-
byist registered or required to register, or on whose 
behalf a registration is filed or required to be filed, 
under section 4 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 
1995 (2 U.S.C. 1603). 
SEC. 3. POSTING LINKS TO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE RE-
PORTS OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ON MEM-
BER WEBSITES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT TO POST LINKS TO REPORTS.— 
Upon filing the report required under section 101(d) of 
the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 
101(d)), each Member of Congress shall, in consultation 
with the Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the 
case of a Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Com-
missioner to, the Congress) or the Secretary of the Senate 
(in the case of a Senator), post a hyperlink to the report 
on the official public website of the office of the Member. 
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