Title: To create qualifications for, and certain limitations on, staffs of special counsels.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This bill establishes qualifications for, and limitations on, a federal employee or officer who advises or staffs a special counsel whose investigation or prosecution involves an elected official. Specifically, the bill disqualifies a person who has contributed to a candidate or political party for the prior eight years, and prohibits a person from moving to another federal civil service position for five years after completing service.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4197 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4197

  To create qualifications for, and certain limitations on, staffs of 
                           special counsels.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 31, 2017

  Mr. Posey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To create qualifications for, and certain limitations on, staffs of 
                           special counsels.

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

SECTION 1. QUALIFICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS ON STAFFS OF SPECIAL 
              COUNSELS.

    (a) Application.--This section applies with respect to any Federal 
officer or employee--
            (1) who is--
                    (A) a special counsel appointed by the Attorney 
                General under Department of Justice regulations; or
                    (B) any other official appointed by the Attorney 
                General who exercises a similar degree of independence 
                from the normal Department of Justice chain of command; 
                and
            (2) whose investigation or prosecution involves an elected 
        official.
    (b) Qualifications To Work on the Staff or Advice.--
            (1) Contributions while serving.--It disqualifies a person 
        for further advising or working on the staff of an officer or 
        employee to whom this section applies that such person makes a 
        contribution to a candidate for elective office or to a 
        political party during such service.
            (2) Statement under penalty of perjury required.--Before 
        taking up the duties of working in the staff of an officer to 
        whom this section applies, a person must sign, under penalty of 
        perjury, a statement that such person has not made, within the 
        8-year period ending on the date such person begins such 
        duties, a contribution to a candidate for elective office or to 
        a political party.
    (c) Limitations on Federal Employment After Working on Staff.--A 
person who works on the staff of an official to whom this section 
applies shall not be employed, during the 5-year period after that 
person leaves the staff, in any Federal executive branch office or in a 
position within the civil service other than one within the competitive 
service in the Department of Justice--
            (1) for which the compensation is determined under the 
        General Schedule pursuant to title 5, United States Code, and 
        any other law applicable to the salary levels set forth in that 
        General Schedule; and
            (2) which the person held immediately prior to taking up 
        duties working on the staff.
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