Lobbying Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006
Latest action · Feb 6, 2006 Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 31, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Lobbying Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 - Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require: (1) quarterly instead of semiannual filing of lobbying disclosures reports; (2) electronic filing; (3) maintenance of certain lobbying disclosure information in an electronic data base, available to the public free of charge over the Internet; (4) disclosure by registered lobbyists of all past executive and congressional employment; (5) disclosure of grassroots lobbying activities by paid lobbyists; (6) disclosure of registered lobbyists contributions and payments; and (7) an increased penalty for failure to comply with lobbying disclosure requirements.
Revises criteria, with regard to disclosure requirements, for determining a coalition or association of groups that retain a person to conduct lobbying or grassroots lobbying activities.
Extends from one to two years the ban on lobbying contacts by former very senior executive personnel, former Members of Congress, and officers and employees of the legislative branch with any officer or employee of the entity in which such person served before his or her tenure terminated.
Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to grant a current or former employee or officer assigned to an Indian tribe to perform services pursuant to self-governance contracts or compacts formerly performed by them for the United States to communicate with and appear before any department, agency, court, or commission on behalf of the Indian tribe with respect to any matter relating to the contract or compact.
Requires public disclosure by Members of Congress of employment negotiations.
Exempts from the restrictions on gifts to Members of Congress or Senators, officers, or employees the market value for a flight on an airplane not licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate for compensation or hire. Declares that such market value is the fair market value of a charter flight. Requires public disclosure of such flights.
Declares that a gift to a covered executive branch official, or to an officer, employee, or Member of the House or of the Senate, of a ticket to a sporting or entertainment event shall be the face value of the ticket; and if there is no face value, then the highest cost of a ticket with a face value for the event.
Prohibits a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House from accepting a gift of travel (including any transportation, lodging, and meals during such travel) from any private source.
Calls for reviews and semiannual reports by the Comptroller General on activities carried out by the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate under the Act.
Makes it out of order to consider specified appropriations measures if: (1) their accompanying reports or managers' joint explanatory statements contain any earmarks; or (2) a measure contains any earmark but does not name the requesting Member and the pertinent congressional district.
Makes it out of order to consider a conference report until such report and its accompanying joint explanatory statement have been made available three days on the Internet to the general public.
Sets forth: (1) prohibitions on the use of federal funds for political advocacy; (2) reporting disclosure requirements for grantees of such funds; (3) reporting requirements of such grantors; and (4) public disclosure requirements regarding the grants.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2006 |
| House | Ethics Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2006 |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2006 |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2006 |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2006 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 6, 2006Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
- Jan 31, 2006Introduced in House
- Jan 31, 2006Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Standards of Official Conduct, Rules, Resources, and Government Reform, 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.
Related bills 8
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2128 | Lobbying Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 | Related bill | Mar 3, 2006 |
| S 2180 | Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2006 | Related bill | Mar 6, 2006 |
| S 2349 | Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 | Related bill | May 23, 2006 |
| HR 2412 | Special Interest Lobbying and Ethics Accountability Act of 2005 | Related bill | May 17, 2005 |
| HR 4575 | Lobbying Transparency and Accountability Act of 2005 | Related bill | Feb 16, 2006 |
| HR 4948 | Ethics Reform Act of 2006 | Related bill | Mar 14, 2006 |
| HR 4975 | 527 Reform Act of 2006 | Related bill | May 23, 2006 |
| HR 4988 | House Ethics Reform Act of 2006 | Related bill | Apr 27, 2006 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide greater transparency with respect to lobbying activities, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Lobbying Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006
- Popular Titles
- Lobbying Reform bill
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Accounting
- Administrative procedure
- Advertising
- Appropriations
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Auditing
- Campaign funds
- Charter airlines
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Conflict of interests
- Congress
- Congressional districts
- Congressional elections
- Congressional employees
- Congressional ethics
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional officers
- Congressional publicity
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Congressional travel
- Continuing resolutions
- Data banks
- Disciplining of employees
- Dismissal of employees
- Economics and Public Finance
- Election candidates
- Electronic government information
- Employee rights
- Evidence (Law)
- Federal employees
- Federal officials
- Federal-Indian relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Freedom of information
- Fund raising
- Gifts
- Government ethics
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- House rules and procedure
- Identification devices
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legislation
- Lobbying
- Members of Congress
- Minorities
- Misconduct in office
- Native Americans
- Office of Management and Budget
- Parties to actions
- Political action committees
- Political advertising
- Political participation
- Presidential elections
- Private aviation
- Public records
- Recreation
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Senate rules and procedure
- Sports and Recreation
- Supplemental appropriations
- Trade associations
- Transportation and Public Works
- Travel costs
- Valuation
- Waste in government spending
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 31, 2006Introduced in House
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