(1) GENERAL
RULE.—Except as provided in
paragraph (2), the amendment made by subsection
(a) take effect on January 1, 1997.
(2) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) does not apply to a person whose
service as an officer or employee to which such
amendment applies terminated before the effective
date of such amendment.
SEC. 3. CROSS-OVER LOBBYING.
(a) EXECUTIVE BRANCH.—Section 207(d) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL RESTRICTION.—Any person who is
a former officer or employee of the executive branch of
the United States, who is subject to subsection (c) or para-
graphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, and who, within 1
year after the date of the termination of such officer or
employee’s service or employment with the United States,
knowingly makes, with intent to influence, any commu-
nication to or appearance before any Member of Congress
or officer or employee of the legislative branch of the Unit-
ed States on behalf of any other person (other than the
United States or the District of Columbia) shall be pun-
ished as provided in section 216.’’.
(b) LEGISLATIVE BRANCH.—Section 207(e) of title
18, United States Code, is amended by redesignating
paragraph (7) as paragraph (8) and by adding after para-
graph (6) the following:
‘‘(7) ADDITIONAL RESTRICTION.—Any former Mem-
ber of Congress and any former employee of the House
of Representatives or Senate whose salary was greater
than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay pay-
able for GS–15 of the General Schedule (at the time of
the employee’s termination of employment) who, within 1
year after the date of the termination of the service of
the Member of Congress or the employment of such em-
ployee by the House of Representatives or Senate, know-
ingly makes, with intent to influence, any communication
to or appearance before any officer or employee of the ex-
ecutive branch of the United States on behalf of any other
person (other than the United States or the District of
Columbia) shall be punished as provided in section 216.’’.
SEC. 4. FELONS.
Section 207 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(l) Any—
‘‘(1) former Member of Congress,
‘‘(2) any former employee of the House of Rep-
resentatives or Senate whose salary was greater than
120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay pay-
able for GS–15 of the General Schedule (at the time
of the employee’s termination of employment), and
‘‘(3) any employee of the executive branch of
the United States who is subject to subsection (c) or
(d),
who is convicted of a felony may not, for compensation,
make any communication to or appearance before any em-
ployee of the House of Representatives or Senate or officer
or employee of the executive branch of the United
States.’’.
SEC. 5. EXEMPTION BASED ON REGISTRATION UNDER LOB-
BYING ACT.
Section 3(h) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act
(22 U.S.C. 613(h)) is amended by striking ‘‘is required
to register and does register’’ and inserting ‘‘has engaged
in lobbying activities and has registered’’..
SEC. 6. CIVIL PENALTIES.
Section 8(a) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act
(22 U.S.C. 618) is amended—
(1) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Such
a person shall also be subject to a civil penalty of
not more than $50,000 for each such violation which
is knowingly committed.’’; and
(2) in paragraph (1), by moving the matter be-
ginning with ‘‘shall, upon conviction thereof,’’ one
em to the left.
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