I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6658 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit covered Federal awards 
for certain special Government employees, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 11, 2025 
Mr. MIN (for himself, Ms. NORTON, Ms. ANSARI, Mr. GARCIA of California, 
Ms. TLAIB, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. CARSON, and Mr. HORSFORD) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit covered 
Federal awards for certain special Government employ-
ees, 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 ‘‘Ban on Self-Interested 
Contracting Act’’ or the ‘‘BASIC Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON COVERED FEDERAL AWARDS FOR 
SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Chapter 11 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 220 the 
following (and conforming the table of sections of such 
chapter accordingly): 
‘‘§ 221. Prohibition on covered Federal awards for 
special Government employees 
‘‘(a) Except as provided in subsection (c), any special 
Government employee who knowingly demands, seeks, re-
ceives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept, directly or 
indirectly, any covered Federal award offered or issued by 
their employing agency shall be subject to the penalties 
set forth in section 216 of this title. 
‘‘(b) For purposes of subsection (a), a special Govern-
ment employee indirectly demands, seeks, receives, ac-
cepts, or agrees to receive or accept a covered Federal 
award if— 
‘‘(1) such award is given, with the employee’s 
knowledge and acquiescence to the employee’s par-
ent, sibling, spouse, child, dependent relative, or a 
member of the employee’s household because of that 
person’s relationship to the employee or the employ-
ee’s spouse, minor child, or general partner; or 
‘‘(2) such award is given to any organization 
with whom the employee is an officer, director, 
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trustee, general partner, or employee, or is negoti-
ating for, or otherwise has an arrangement for em-
ployment, if— 
‘‘(A) the employee will aid or assist the or-
ganization in seeking, negotiating, or per-
forming any part of the work under the covered 
Federal award; or 
‘‘(B) the employee will receive any com-
pensation traceable to the covered Federal 
award. 
‘‘(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a special Gov-
ernment employee who— 
‘‘(1) only serves as a member of an advisory 
committee; 
‘‘(2) has duties comparable to the duties of an 
individual in a position at GS–10 of the General 
Schedule or lower; or 
‘‘(3) has a position designated exclusively for 
students. 
‘‘(d) In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘advisory committee’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 1001 of title 5. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘covered Federal award’ means 
a contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or other 
contract-like instrument, including an agreement en-
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tered into pursuant to other transaction authority, 
that awards to the recipient on an annual basis an 
amount that is more than $1,000,000.’’. 
(b) REVISIONS REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this section, part 3 of 
the Federal Acquisition Regulation and part 200, Code of 
Federal Regulations, shall be revised to prohibit any offi-
cer or employee of an executive branch agency or depart-
ment from awarding a covered Federal award if to do so 
would violate section 2(a) of this Act in accordance with 
this section. 
(c) GUIDANCE.—The Office of Government Ethics 
shall issue regulatory guidance on this section and the 
amendment made by this section. 
SEC. 3. PUBLICATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION RELAT-
ING TO SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. 
(a) POSITION DATA.—Section 3330f(a)(5) of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (A); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of sub-
paragraph (B) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) includes any special Government em-
ployee (as that term is defined in section 202(a) 
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of title 18), but not including any such em-
ployee who— 
‘‘(i) only serves as a member of an ad-
visory committee; 
‘‘(ii) has duties comparable to the du-
ties of an individual in a position at GS– 
10 of the General Schedule or lower; or 
‘‘(iii) has a position designated exclu-
sively for students.’’. 
(b) FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REPORTS.—Notwith-
standing chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, in-
cluding section 13109, each Executive agency shall make 
publicly available any financial disclosure report filed by 
a special Government employee with the Executive agency 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, using the pro-
cedures established under section 13107 of such title, ex-
cept that this subsection shall not apply to any financial 
disclosure report that is filed by— 
(1) an individual described in paragraph (1) or 
(2) of section 13107(a) of such title; or 
(2) a special Government employee described in 
subsection (c) of section 221 of title 18, United 
States Code (as added by section 2(a) of this Act). 
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SEC. 4. 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 
Government employee who is not serving on an 
advisory committee; and 
‘‘(B) does not include an individual de-
scribed 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 
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.’’. 
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