employee who is serving as chair or vice chair on such 
an advisory committee, any waiver or exemption granted 
under subsection (b)(1) shall be proactively made publicly 
available via a searchable online database not later than 
14 days after the date on which the waiver is issued.’’. 
SEC. 4. RESTRICTION ON COMMUNICATIONS WITH AGEN-
CIES. 
(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘large 
company’’ means— 
(1) any for-profit company that has greater 
than an average of $1,000,000,000 in market cap-
italization or revenue for the previous 3-year period; 
(2) any Federal contractor that received greater 
than $100,000,000 in annual revenue from the Fed-
eral Government during the previous 3-year period; 
and 
(3) any for-profit company that exerts monopo-
listic or monopsonistic control over a significant 
share of the market in its particular industry, as de-
fined by regulation by the Director of the Office of 
Government Ethics, in consultation with the Attor-
ney General. 
(b) RESTRICTION.—No special Government em-
ployee, as defined in section 202 of title 18, United States 
Code, who is not on an advisory committee or a chair or 
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vice chair on an advisory committee may have direct or 
indirect communications in their official capacity with an 
agency or office that contracts with, regulates, or has a 
pending enforcement action against a large company— 
(1) that the special Government employee owns; 
or 
(2) for which the special Government employee 
serves as a senior executive or director. 
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Government Eth-
ics shall promulgate regulations carrying out this section, 
including to define ownership of a large company. 
SEC. 5. DATABASE OF SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. 
Section 1103 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d)(1) In this subsection, the term ‘covered indi-
vidual’— 
‘‘(A) means an individual who is a special Gov-
ernment employee who is not serving on an advisory 
committee; and 
‘‘(B) does not include an individual described in 
paragraph (1) or (2) of section 13107(a). 
‘‘(2) The Director, in coordination with the Office of 
Government Ethics, shall maintain to the extent tech-
nically practicable, keep current, and make available to the 
public over the internet, without a fee or other access 
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charge, in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable man-
ner, an electronic database that contains the name of each 
covered individual, a rolling tally of the number of days 
the person has served as a special Government employee, 
and a description of why the individual was designated as 
a special Government employee rather than a regular em-
ployee.’’. 
SEC. 6. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS OF SPE-
CIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. 
Title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in section 13103(f)— 
(A) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘(other 
than a special Government employee)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (11), by striking ‘‘and at 
the end’’; 
(C) in paragraph (12), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(13) A special Government employee who— 
‘‘(A) is not serving on an advisory com-
mittee or is serving as a chair or vice chair on 
an advisory committee; and 
‘‘(B) is not serving in a position classified 
as a general schedule position at the GS–9 level 
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or below, with limited responsibilities, closely 
supervised by a career Federal employee. 
‘‘(14) For any special Government employee 
claiming an exemption from filing a public report 
this subsection, the relevant agency ethics officer 
shall review to ensure the exemption may be prop-
erly applied to that special Government employee.’’; 
and 
(2) in section 13109(a)(1), by inserting ‘‘, ex-
cept as provided in section 13103(f)(13),’’ after 
‘‘title 18)’’. 
SEC. 7. MODIFICATIONS OF ONLINE ACCESS TO CERTAIN 
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS AND 
RELATED FORMS. 
Section 1(a)(2) of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to modify 
the requirements under the STOCK Act regarding online 
access to certain financial disclosure statements and re-
lated forms’’, approved April 15, 2013 (5 U.S.C. 13107 
note) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(F) Any special Government employee of 
the executive branch who— 
‘‘(i) is not serving on an advisory 
committee or is serving as a chair or vice 
chair on an advisory committee; or 
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‘‘(ii) is not serving in a position classi-
fied as a general schedule position at the 
GS–9 level or below, with limited respon-
sibilities, closely supervised by a career 
Federal employee.’’. 
SEC. 8. SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE RULE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), in the case of a special Government employee, as de-
fined in section 202 of title 18, United States Code, who 
has served in their department or agency for more than 
60 days during the immediately preceding period of 365 
consecutive days, all Federal ethics rules shall apply to 
such special Government employee to the same extent that 
such rules apply to regular Government employees. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—In the case of a special Govern-
ment employee, as defined in section 202 of title 18, 
United States Code, who has served in their department 
or agency for more than 130 during the immediately pre-
ceding period of 365 consecutive days, section 209 of title 
18, United States Code, and subchapter III of chapter 131 
of title 5, United States Code, shall apply to such special 
Government employee to the same extent that the section 
applies to regular Government employees, except that such 
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section 209 shall apply whether the special Government 
employee serves with or without pay. 
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