Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4682
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-8]
Introduced: 2006-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Associations, institutions, etc.
Auditing
Budget deficits
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Budget surpluses
Business ethics
Campaign funds
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Charter airlines
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Conferences
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional conference committees
Congressional districts
Congressional elections
Congressional employees
Congressional ethics
Congressional investigations
Congressional joint committees
Congressional officers
Congressional publicity
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional sessions
Congressional travel
Congressional voting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Debt
Defense contracts
Defense industries
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee selection
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Evidence (Law)
Ex-Members of Congress
Exercise
Families
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Forfeiture
Fraud
Fund raising
General Services Administration
Gifts
Government and business
Government contractors
Government ethics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government travel
Governmental investigations
Hazardous wastes
Health
House Rules
House Standards of Official Conduct
House of Representatives
House rules and procedure
Income tax
International Affairs
Internet
Joint Taxation
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Lobbying
Members of Congress
Military operations
Misconduct in office
Money laundering
Office of Government Ethics
Political action committees
Political parties
Presidential appointments
Presidential elections
Presidential libraries
Profit
Public health
Public records
Record votes
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Tax incentives
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
War
War relief
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: 
Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2006 - Extends from one to two years the lobbying ban for former senior executive personnel, former Members of Congress, and legislative branch officers and employees.
 
Denies floor privileges to any former Members and House officers if he or she is a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal.
 

 

 
Requires public disclosure by Members of Congress and senior congressional staff of employment negotiations.
 

 
Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) to revise requirements for lobbying disclosures reports.
 
Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to: (1) exclude gifts from lobbyists from the gift ban exceptions; and (2) prohibit privately funded travel by a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee.
 

 

 

 
Establishes the Office of Public Integrity within the Office of Inspector General of the House.
 
Amends the LDA to increase the penalty for failure to comply with lobbying disclosure requirements.
 
Requires certification that congressional travel meets certain conditions, subject to civil fines for false certifications.
 
Establishes mandatory annual ethics training for House employees.
 
Makes it out of order to consider any reconciliation legislation which has the net effect of reducing the surplus or increasing the deficit compared to the most recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate for any fiscal year.
 
Limits recorded electronic votes to 20 minutes, except in certain circumstances.
 

 

 

 

 
Makes requirements for earmarks in funding measures.
 
Makes it out of order to consider a resolution providing for adjournment sine die unless, during at least 20 weeks of the session, a quorum call or recorded vote was taken on at least four of the weekdays (excluding legal public holidays).
 
Makes it out of order, with certain exceptions, for the House to consider a bill or joint resolution until 24 hours, or in the case of legislation containing a district-oriented earmark or limited tax benefit, until three days after copies of such measure are available.
 
Makes a motion to request or agree to a conference on a general appropriation bill in order only if the House expresses its disagreements with the Senate in the form of numbered amendments.
 
Requires all provisions on which the two chambers disagree to be open to discussion at any meeting of a conference committee.
 
Prescribes minimum requirements for political appointees holding public safety positions.
 
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (OFPPA) to require an executive agency, after awarding a contract, to make specified information regarding it available to the public, including over the Internet in a searchable database.
 
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (FPASA) to prohibit awarding of a monopoly federal contract to a single contractor.
 
Specifies conditions under which such contracts may be awarded.
 
Amends the FPASA to require revision of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require competition for certain multiple award contracts.
 
Provides for suspension and debarment of unethical contractors.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to impose fines and penalties on cheating taxpayers and wartime fraud.
 
Revises requirements and prohibitions regarding contractor conflicts of interest.
 
Requires disclosure of certain government contractor overcharges.
 
Subjects individuals to penalties for improper sole-source contracting procedures.
 

 

 

 

 

 
Prescribes disclosure requirements for organizations established to raise funds for creating, maintaining, expanding, or conducting activities at a former or existing presidential archival depository or its facilities.
 

 

 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Government Reform, Standards of Official Conduct, Armed Services, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Government Reform, Standards of Official Conduct, Armed Services, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Government Reform, Standards of Official Conduct, Armed Services, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Government Reform, Standards of Official Conduct, Armed Services, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Government Reform, Standards of Official Conduct, Armed Services, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Government Reform, Standards of Official Conduct, Armed Services, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Government Reform, Standards of Official Conduct, Armed Services, and House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Introduced in House