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(ii) providing technical advice or as-
sistance (where such advice would other-
wise constitute the influencing of legisla-
tion or agency action) to a governmental
body or to a committee or other subdivi-
sion thereof in response to a written re-
quest by such body or subdivision, as the
case may be;
(iii) 
communications 
between 
the
grantee and its bona fide members with re-
spect to legislation, proposed legislation,
agency action, or proposed agency action
of direct interest to the grantee and such
members, other than communications de-
scribed in subparagraph (C);
(iv) any communication with a govern-
mental official or employee; other than—
(I) a communication with a mem-
ber or employee of a legislative body
or agency (where such communication
would otherwise constitute the influ-
encing of legislation or agency action);
or
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(II) a communication the prin-
cipal purpose of which is to influence
legislation or agency action; and
(v) official communications by employ-
ees of State or local governments, or by or-
ganizations whose membership consists ex-
clusively of State or local governments.
(C) COMMUNICATIONS WITH MEMBERS.—
(i) A communication between a grant-
ee and any bona fide member of such orga-
nization to directly encourage such member
to communicate as provided in paragraph
(2)(A)(ii) shall be treated as a (2)(A)(ii)
communication by the grantee itself.
(ii) A communication between a
grantee and any bona fide member of such
organization to directly encourage such
member to urge persons other than mem-
bers to communicate as provided in either
clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (2)(A) shall
be treated as a communication described in
paragraph (2)(A)(i).
(3) The term ‘‘legislation’’ includes the intro-
duction, amendment, enactment, passage, defeat,
ratification, or repeal of Acts, bills, resolutions, trea-
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ties, declarations, confirmations, articles of impeach-
ment, or similar items by the Congress, any State
legislature, any local council or similar governing
body, or by the public in a referendum, initiative,
constitutional amendment, recall, confirmation, or
similar procedure.
(4) The term ‘‘grant’’ includes the provision of
any Federal funds, appropriated under this or any
other Act, or other thing of value to carry out a pub-
lic purpose of the United States, except: the provi-
sion of funds for acquisition (by purchase, lease or
barter) of property or services for the direct benefit
or use of the United States, or the payments of
loans, debts, or entitlements; or the provision of
funds to an Article I or III court.
(5) The term ‘‘grantee’’ includes any recipient
of any grant. The term shall not include any state
or local government, but shall include any recipient
receiving a grant (as defined by subsection c(4))
from a state or local government.
(6) The term ‘‘agency action’’ includes the defi-
nition contained in section 551 of Title 5, United
States Code, and includes action by state or local
government agencies.
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(7) The term ‘‘agency proceeding’’ includes the
definition contained in section 551 of Title 5, United
States Code, and includes proceedings by state or
local government agencies.
DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
SEC. 602. (a) Not later than December 31 of each
year, a grantee shall provide (via either electronic or paper
medium) to each Federal entity that awarded or adminis-
tered its grant an annual report for the prior Federal fis-
cal year, certified by the grantee’s chief executive officer
or equivalent person of authority, and setting forth: the
grantee’s name, the grantee’s identification number,
and—
(1) a statement that the grantee did not engage
in political advocacy; or,
(2) a statement that the grantee did engage in
political advocacy, and setting forth for each grant—
(A) the grant identification number;
(B) the amount or value of the grant (in-
cluding all administrative and overhead costs
awarded);
(C) a brief description of the purpose or
purposes for which the grant was awarded;
(D) the identity of each Federal, state and
local government entity awarding or administer-
ing the grant, and program thereunder;
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(E) the name and grantee identification
number of each individual, entity, or organiza-
tion to whom the grantee made a grant;
(F) a brief description of the grantee’s po-
litical advocacy, and a good faith estimate of
the grantee’s expenditures on political advocacy;
(G) a good faith estimate of the grantee’s
prohibited political advocacy threshold.
(b) OMB COORDINATION.—The Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall develop by regulation one stand-
ardized form for the annual report that shall be accepted
by every Federal entity, and a uniform procedure by which
each grantee is assigned one permanent and unique grant-
ee identification number.
FEDERAL ENTITY REPORT
SEC. 603. Not later than May 1 of each calendar
year, each Federal entity awarding or administering a
grant shall submit to the Bureau of the Census a report
(standardized by the Office of Management and Budget)
setting forth the information provided to such Federal en-
tity by each grantee during the preceding Federal fiscal
year, and the name and grantee identification number of
each grantee to whom it provided written notice under sec-
tion 1(a)(6). The Bureau of the Census shall make this
database available to the public through the Internet.
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PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
SEC. 604. (a) Any Federal entity awarding a grant
shall make publicly available any grant application, audit
of a grantee, list of grantees to whom notice was provided
under section 1(a)(6), annual report of a grantee, and that
Federal entity’s annual report to the Bureau of the Cen-
sus.
(b) The public’s access to the documents identified
in section 4(a) shall be facilitated by placement of such
documents in the Federal entity’s public document reading
room and also by expediting any requests under section
552 of title 5, United States Code, the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act as amended, ahead of any requests for other
information pending at such Federal entity.
(c) Records described in section (a) shall not be sub-
ject to withholding except under exemption (b)(7)(A) of
section 552 of title 5, United States Code.
(d) No fees for searching for or copying such docu-
ments shall be charged to the public.
SEVERABILITY
SEC. 605. If any provision of this title or the applica-
tion thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid,
the remainder of this title and the application of such pro-
vision to other persons and circumstances shall not be af-
fected thereby.