A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to revise the scope and applicability of the post-employment conflict of interest provisions with respect to officers and employees of the executive branch.

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Amends title V (Post Employment Conflict of Interest) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to repeal those provisions which establish criminal penalties for executive schedule and certain other high-ranking Government officials who represent, or make communications on behalf of, persons on matters pending before their former agency within one year after their Government employment ends. Modifies the scope of the provision barring certain activity by Government employees on behalf of other persons within a two-year period after their Government employment ends, to eliminate the express application of such provision to executive schedule and certain other high-ranking Government officials who knowingly aid, counsel, advise, consult, or assist in representing such persons.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 13 February 1979

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