Safeguarding Government from Foreign Corruption Act

Bill: 115-hr-2456
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2017-05-16
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Federal officials

Financial services and investments

Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Jurisdiction and venue

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Safeguarding Government from Foreign Corruption Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the federal criminal code to specify that a person, regardless of the country of his or her citizenship, may be convicted of an offense involving bribery of public officials based on conduct occurring outside the United States, in certain circumstances.</p> <p>A violation of this bill constitutes a high crime and misdemeanor under the U.S. Constitution.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2456 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 16, 2017 Ms. Jayapal (for herself and Mr. Raskin ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To expressly provide for the extraterritorial application of the Federal bribery and illegal gratuity statute to the President and other covered officials.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safeguarding Government from Foreign Corruption Act . 2. Affirming the application of the Federal bribery and illegal gratuity statute to persons residing and to acts occurring abroad Section 201 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (f) A person, regardless of the country of his or her citizenship, may be convicted under this section of an offense committed by his or her own conduct or the conduct of another for which he or she is legally accountable if— (1) either the conduct that is an element of the offense or the result that is such an element occurs within the United States; (2) conduct occurring outside the United States is sufficient under the law of the United States to constitute an attempt to commit an offense within the United States; or (3) conduct occurring outside the United States is sufficient under the law of the United States to constitute a conspiracy to commit an offense within the United States and an overt act in furtherance of such conspiracy occurs within the United States. . 3. Violations A violation of this Act shall constitute a high crime and misdemeanor for the purposes of article II, section 4 of the Constitution of the United States.