Title: Foreign Extortion Prevention Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Foreign Extortion Prevention Act
This bill makes it a crime for foreign officials to demand or accept bribes to influence an official act or violate an official duty. An individual who violates this provision is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to two years, or both.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4140 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4140

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a foreign official 
            from demanding a bribe, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2019

   Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Malinowski, and Mr. 
   Hudson) 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 prohibit a foreign official 
            from demanding a bribe, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Foreign Extortion Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF DEMAND FOR BRIBE.

    Section 201 of title 18, United States Code is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) The term `foreign official' means any officer or 
        employee--
                    ``(A) of a foreign government or any department, 
                agency, or instrumentality thereof;
                    ``(B) of a public international organization; or
                    ``(C) any person acting in an official capacity for 
                or on behalf of any such government or department, 
                agency, or instrumentality, or for or on behalf of any 
                such public international organization.
            ``(5) The term `public international organization' means--
                    ``(A) an organization that is designated by 
                Executive order pursuant to section 1 of the 
                International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 
                288); or
                    ``(B) any other international organization that is 
                designated by the President by Executive order for the 
                purposes of this section, effective as of the date of 
                publication of such order in the Federal Register''; 
                and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Whoever, being a foreign official or person selected to be a 
foreign official, otherwise than as provided by law for the proper 
discharge of official duty, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, 
seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of 
value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for--
            ``(1) being influenced in the performance of any official 
        act; or
            ``(2) being induced to do or omit to do any act in 
        violation of the official duty of such official or person,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two 
years or both.''.
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