AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 203 OF TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE.

SEC. 402. AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 203 OF TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE. Section 203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by— (1) striking “services” the first place it appears in subsection (a)(1) and inserting “representational services, as agent or attorney or otherwise,”; (2) inserting “court,” after “department, agency,” in subsection (a)(1); (3) striking “shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States” in subsection (a) and inserting “shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 216 of this title”; (4) inserting “representational” before “services” in subsection (a)(2); (5) inserting “Member Elect,” after “Member,” in subsection (a)(2); (6) inserting “Delegate Elect,” after “Delegate,” in subsection (a)(2); (7) striking “including the District of Columbia,” in subsection (a)(1)(B); (8) in subsection (b)— (A) by redesignating such subsection as subsection (c); and 103 STAT. 1749 (B) by striking “subsection (a)” and inserting “subsections (a) and (b)”; (9) by inserting after subsection (a) the following: “(b) Whoever, otherwise than as provided by law for the proper discharge of official duties, directly or indirectly— “(1) demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept any compensation for any representational services, as agent or attorney or otherwise, rendered or to be rendered either personally or by another, at a time when such person is an officer or employee of the District of Columbia, in relation to any proceeding, application, request for a ruling or other determination, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter in which the District of Columbia is a party of has a direct and substantial interest, before any department, agency, court, officer, or commission; or “(2) knowingly gives, promises, or offers any compensation for any such services rendered or to be rendered at a time when the person to whom the compensation is given, promised, or offered, is or was an officer or employee of the District of Columbia; shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 216 of this title.”; and (10) adding at the end the following: “(d) Nothing in this section prevents an officer or employee, including a special Government employee, from acting, with or without compensation, as agent or attorney for or otherwise representing his parents, spouse, child, or any person for whom, or for any estate for which, he is serving as guardian, executor, administrator, trustee, or other personal fiduciary except— (1) in those matters in which he has participated personally and substantially as a Government employee, through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or otherwise; or (2) in those matters that are the subject of his official responsibility, subject to approval by the Government official responsible for appointment to his position. “(e) Nothing in this section prevents a special Government employee from acting as agent or attorney for another person in the performance of work under a grant by, or a contract with or for the benefit of, the United States if the head of the department or agency concerned with the grant or contract certifies in writing that the national interest so requires and publishes such certification in the Federal Register.”.