Title: Stop the Revolving Door in Washington Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Stop the Revolving Door in Washington Act

This bill amends the federal criminal code to increase to five years the post-employment lobbying ban on a former member of the U.S. Senate (currently, two years) or a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (currently, one year).
Additionally, the bill increases from one year to two years the post-employment lobbying restrictions on elected officers and certain senior employees of the Senate and House and on other senior legislative branch employees.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 383 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 383

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to extend the post-employment 
   restrictions on lobbying by Members of Congress and officers and 
                  employees of the legislative branch.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2017

  Mr. Posey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to extend the post-employment 
   restrictions on lobbying by Members of Congress and officers and 
                  employees of the legislative branch.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop the Revolving Door in 
Washington Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF POST-EMPLOYMENT RESTRICTIONS.

    (a) Extension of Restrictions.--Section 207(e) of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
            ``(1) Members of congress.--Any person who is a Senator or 
        a Member of the House of Representatives and who, within 5 
        years after that person leaves office, knowingly makes, with 
        the intent to influence, any communication to or appearance 
        before any Member, officer, or employee of either House of 
        Congress or any employee of any other legislative office of the 
        Congress, on behalf of any other person (except the United 
        States) in connection with any matter on which such former 
        Senator or Member seeks action by a Member, officer, or 
        employee of either House of Congress, in his or her official 
        capacity, shall be punished as provided in section 216 of this 
        title.'';
            (2) by striking paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(2) Officers of the congress.--Any person who is an 
        elected officer of the Senate or of the House of 
        Representatives and who, within 2 years after that person 
        leaves office, knowingly makes, with the intent to influence, 
        any communication to or appearance before any Member, officer, 
        or employee of either House of Congress or any employee of any 
        other legislative office of the Congress, on behalf of any 
        other person (except the United States) in connection with any 
        matter on which such former elected officer seeks action by a 
        Member, officer, or employee of either House of Congress, in 
        his or her official capacity, shall be punished as provided in 
        section 216 of this title.
            ``(3) Employees of the congress.--Any person who is an 
        employee of the Senate, or an employee of the House of 
        Representatives, to whom paragraph (5)(A) applies and who, 
        within 2 years after the termination of that employment, 
        knowingly makes, with the intent to influence, any 
        communication to or appearance before any Member, officer, or 
        employee of either House of Congress or any employee of any 
        other legislative office of the Congress, on behalf of any 
        other person (except the United States) in connection with any 
        matter on which such former employee seeks action by a Member, 
        officer, or employee of either House of Congress, in his or her 
        official capacity, shall be punished as provided in section 216 
        of this title.
            ``(4) Employees of other legislative offices.--Any person 
        who is an employee of any other legislative office of the 
        Congress to whom paragraph (5)(B) applies and who, within 2 
        years after the termination of that employment, knowingly 
        makes, with the intent to influence, any communication to or 
        appearance before any Member, officer, or employee of either 
        House of Congress or any employee of any other legislative 
        office of the Congress, on behalf of any other person (except 
        the United States) in connection with any matter on which such 
        former employee seeks action by a Member, officer, or employee 
        of either House of Congress, in his or her official capacity, 
        shall be punished as provided in section 216 of this title.'';
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (7), (8), and (9), as 
        paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively;
            (4) in paragraph (5), as redesignated--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``paragraphs 
                (2), (3), (4), and (5)'' and inserting ``paragraph 
                (3)''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``paragraph 
                (6)'' and inserting ``paragraph (4)''; and
            (5) in paragraph (7)(G), as redesignated, by striking 
        ``(3), (4), or (5)'' and inserting ``or (3)''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 103(a) of the Honest Leadership 
and Open Government Act of 2007 (2 U.S.C. 4702(a)) is amended by 
striking ``paragraph (2), (3), (4), or (5)'' and inserting ``paragraph 
(3)''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall apply to individuals who 
leave office or employment to which such amendments apply on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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