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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2824 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit Federal awards for special Government employees, and for other |
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| 6 | 6 | | purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL10, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | ASTORof Florida (for herself and Mr. MIN) introduced the following bill; |
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| 11 | 11 | | which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To prohibit Federal awards for special Government |
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| 14 | 14 | | employees, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Employee Limits ON 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Profiteering Act’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL AWARDS FOR SPECIAL 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) P |
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| 23 | 23 | | ROHIBITION.—Except as provided in subsection 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (b), the Federal Government may not enter into or make 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 2824 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | a Federal award to a special Government employee or to 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | a covered third party. 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (b) E |
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| 31 | 31 | | XCEPTION.—Subsection (a) does not apply to a 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | special Government employee who only serves as a member 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | of an advisory committee. 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (c) R |
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| 35 | 35 | | EVISION OFFAR REQUIRED.—Not later than 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 60 days after the date of the enactment of this section, 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be revised in ac-8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | cordance with this section. 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (d) D |
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| 40 | 40 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (1) A |
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| 42 | 42 | | DVISORY COMMITTEE .—The term ‘‘advi-11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | sory committee’’ has the meaning given that term in 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | section 1001 of title 5, United States Code. 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) C |
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| 46 | 46 | | OVERED THIRD PARTY .—The term ‘‘cov-14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ered third party’’ means— 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (A) the spouse, child, and general partner 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | of a special Government employee; or 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (B) an organization in which a special 18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | Government employee serves as officer, director, 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | trustee, general partner, or employee. 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (3) F |
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| 54 | 54 | | EDERAL AWARD .—The term ‘‘Federal 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | award’’ means a contract, grant, cooperative agree-22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ment, or other contract-like instrument, including an 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | agreement entered into pursuant to other trans-24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | action authority. 25 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (4) SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE .—The 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | term ‘‘special Government employee’’ has the mean-2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ing given that term in section 202 of title 18, United 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | States Code. 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Æ |
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