Truth-in-Lobbying Disclosure Act

Truth-in-Lobbying Disclosure Act - Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1985 to require a registered lobbyist's semiannual report to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to include any federal funds received by the client (other than a state), through grants, contracts, or otherwise, during such reporting period, including funds received by reason of a provision in an appropriations Act that specifies: (1) an entity to receive funds and their amount; or (2) a project to be carried out in the district that a Representative in Congress, or the state that a Senator, represents.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4787 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4787

 To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require reporting of 
            Federal funds received by clients of lobbyists.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2006

Mr. Doolittle introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require reporting of 
            Federal funds received by clients of lobbyists.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Truth-in-Lobbying Disclosure Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING OF FEDERAL FUNDS RECEIVED BY CLIENTS OF LOBBYISTS.

    Section 5(b) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 
1604(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) any Federal funds received by the client (other than 
        a client that is a State), through grants, contracts, or 
        otherwise, during the semiannual reporting period, including 
        funds received by reason of a provision in an appropriations 
        Act that--
                    ``(A) specifies an entity to receive funds and the 
                amount of such funds; or
                    ``(B) specifies a project to be carried out in--
                            ``(i) the district that a Representative 
                        in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, 
                        the Congress represents; or
                            ``(ii) the State that a Senator 
                        represents.''.
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