text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Revolving Door Sunshine Act of 
  1993''.
  
  SEC. 2. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF COMMUNICATIONS.
  
      (a) Disclosure Requirement.--Section 552b of title 5, United States 
  Code, commonly referred to as the ``Government in the Sunshine Act'', 
  is amended by adding at the end the following:
      ``(n)(1) Any person who is a senior member of the Federal 
  Government shall, after his or her service or employment as a senior 
  member of the Federal Government terminates, file, in accordance with 
  paragraph (2), reports containing the following information:
              ``(A)(i) The name of any Member of Congress, and the name 
          and title of any congressional staff member or of any officer 
          or employee of any agency, to whom he or she makes an oral or 
          written communication on behalf of anyone other than himself or 
          herself or the United States, during the 5-year period 
          beginning on the date on which his or her service or employment 
          as a senior member of the Federal Government terminates, 
          regarding an official action of the Congress or that agency.
              ``(ii) A person who is a former senior appointee is 
          required under this subparagraph to report only a communication 
          regarding--
                      ``(I) an official action by an agency of which he 
                  or she, as such senior appointee, was an officer or 
                  employee;
                      ``(II) an official action by the Congress that 
                  directly affects an agency described in subclause (I); 
                  or
                      ``(III) an official action relating to a matter in 
                  which he or she participated personally and 
                  substantially as such senior appointee.
              ``(B) The name, address, and telephone number of any person 
          on whose behalf he or she makes a communication described in 
          subparagraph (A).
              ``(C) A description of the legislation, regulation, trade 
          negotiation, or other matter that a communication described in 
          subparagraph (A) concerns.
              ``(D) The name, address, and telephone number of any 
          foreign government, foreign political party, or foreign 
          business entity whom he or she represents, aids, or advises, 
          during the 5-year period beginning on the date on which his or 
          her service or employment as a senior member of the Federal 
          Government terminates, regarding any official action of the 
          Congress or of an agency.
      ``(2)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), each person who is required 
  to file a report under paragraph (1) shall file such report--
              ``(i) by July 30 of each year, containing information 
          relating to the period January 1 through June 30 of that year; 
          and
              ``(ii) by January 31 of each year, containing information 
          relating to the period July 1 through December 31 of the 
          preceding year.
      ``(B)(i) A person shall file the first report under paragraph (1) 
  for the first reporting period described in subparagraph (A) of this 
  paragraph--
              ``(I) which occurs after the person leaves his or her 
          office or position; and
              ``(II) in which he or she made any communication described 
          in paragraph (1)(A), or any representation, aid, or advice 
          described in paragraph (1)(D).
  For all subsequent reporting periods, such person shall file a report 
  under paragraph (1) whether or not the person made any communication 
  described in paragraph (1)(A), or any representation, aid, or advice 
  described in paragraph (1)(D), during the reporting period.
      ``(ii) In the case of a person who makes no communication described 
  in paragraph (1)(A), and no representation, aid, or advice described in 
  paragraph (1)(D), during the 5-year period beginning on the date on 
  which his or her service or employment as a senior member of the 
  Federal Government terminates, such person shall file under paragraph 
  (1) a report covering the first 2 years of such 5-year period, and a 
  report covering the next 3 years of such 5-year period.
      ``(iii) The last report which a person described in clause (i) or 
  (ii) is required to file under paragraph (1) is a report filed by the 
  date specified in clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (A) that first 
  occurs after the end of the 5-year period beginning on the date on 
  which his or her service or employment as a senior member of the 
  Federal Government terminates.
      ``(3)(A) A former President, Vice President, or senior appointee 
  shall file the report required by paragraph (1) with the Director of 
  the Office of Management and Budget.
      ``(B) A former Representative in the Congress, Delegate or Resident 
  Commissioner to the Congress, or senior congressional staff member 
  whose pay was disbursed by the Director of Nonlegislative and Financial 
  Services of the House of Representatives, shall file the report 
  required by paragraph (1) with the Clerk of the House of 
  Representatives.
      ``(C) A former Senator, or former senior congressional staff member 
  whose pay was disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, shall file the 
  report required by paragraph (1) with the Secretary of the Senate.
      ``(4) The Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of 
  the Senate, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
  shall, within 30 days after receiving a report filed under paragraph 
  (1), make such report available to the public for inspection and 
  copying during normal business hours.
      ``(5) In any case in which a person--
              ``(A) has failed to file a report required by paragraph (1) 
          with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the 
          Clerk of the House of Representatives, or the Secretary of the 
          Senate, as the case may be,
              ``(B) has failed to file information required in such 
          report, or
              ``(C) has filed false information in such report,
  the Director, Clerk, or Secretary, as the case may be, shall, within 60 
  days after the date on which the report should have been filed or was 
  filed, make public the name of such person and refer the name of such 
  person to the Attorney General.
      ``(6) The Attorney General may bring a civil action in any 
  appropriate United States district court against any person who fails 
  to file a report required by paragraph (1), fails to file information 
  required in such report, or has filed false information in any such 
  report. The court in which such action is brought shall, upon proof of 
  such filing or failure to file by a preponderance of the evidence, 
  assess against such person a civil penalty of not more than $10,000.
      ``(7)(A) The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall make 
  public on January 31 of each year the names of each former 
  Representative in the Congress, each Delegate or Resident Commissioner 
  to the Congress, and each senior congressional staff member whose 
  compensation was disbursed by the Director of Nonlegislative and 
  Financial Services of the House of Representatives, who is required to 
  file a report under paragraph (1).
      ``(B) The Secretary of the Senate shall make public on January 31 
  of each year the names of each former Senator, and each senior 
  congressional staff member whose compensation was disbursed by the 
  Secretary of the Senate, who is required to file a report under 
  paragraph (1).
      ``(C) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
  make public on January 31 of each year the names of each senior 
  appointee who is required to file a report under paragraph (1).
      ``(D) The requirements of this paragraph shall first apply in 
  January of 1995.
      ``(8) For purposes of this subsection--
              ``(A) the term `agency' has the meaning given that term in 
          section 552(f) of this title;
              ``(B) the term `congressional staff member' means an 
          elected officer of either House of Congress, an employee whose 
          pay is disbursed by the Director of Nonlegislative and 
          Financial Services of the House of Representatives, and an 
          employee whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate;
              ``(C) the term `foreign business entity' means a 
          partnership, association, corporation, organization, or other 
          combination of persons either organized under the laws of or 
          having its principal place of business in a foreign country;
              ``(D) the term `foreign government' means the `government 
          of a foreign country', as defined in section 1(e) of the 
          Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended;
              ``(E) the term `foreign political party' has the meaning 
          given that term in section 1(f) of the Foreign Agents 
          Registration Act of 1938, as amended;
              ``(F) the term `Member of Congress' means a Senator or a 
          Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the 
          Congress;
              ``(G) the term `official action' does not include the 
          routine provision of information and services;
              ``(H) the term `senior appointee' means any individual--
                      ``(i) who is appointed by the President, the Vice 
                  President, or the head of an agency to a full-time 
                  position in an agency in the civil service or in the 
                  uniformed services, or is appointed to a position in 
                  the Foreign Service or the Senior Executive Service; 
                  and
                      ``(ii)(I) whose rate of basic pay, if appointed to 
                  a position in the civil service, the Foreign Service, 
                  or the Senior Executive Service, is not less than the 
                  rate of basic pay in effect for level V of the 
                  Executive Schedule under section 5316 of this title; or
                      ``(II) who, if appointed to a position in the 
                  uniformed services, is serving in a grade or rank for 
                  which the pay grade (as specified in section 201 of 
                  title 37) is pay grade O-7 or above;
              ``(I) the term `senior congressional staff member' means 
          any individual who is a congressional staff member and whose 
          rate of basic pay is not less than the rate of basic pay in 
          effect for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 
          of this title;
              ``(J) the term `senior member of the Federal Government' 
          means an individual who--
                      ``(i) is President, Vice President, or a senior 
                  appointee, or
                      ``(ii) is a Member of Congress or a senior 
                  congressional staff member,
          and is serving in such position after January 4, 1995; and
              ``(K) the term `written communication' includes any 
          communication, other than an oral communication, that is 
          transmitted by any means, including by an electronic device.''.
      (b) Conforming and Clerical Amendments.--Section 552b(a)(1) of 
  title 5, United States Code, is amended--
              (1) by inserting ``, except as provided in subsection 
          (n),'' after `` `agency' ''; and
              (2) by striking ``section 552(e)'' and inserting ``section 
          552(f)''.
target: Revolving Door Sunshine Act of 1993 - Amends the Government in the Sunshine Act to require former Presidents, Vice Presidents, and senior Federal appointees, as well as former Members of Congress and senior congressional staff members, to file, for a certain period after leaving Government, periodic reports with the appropriate entity which disclose certain communications made and other actions (generally related to advising or lobbying, especially, but not only, by foreign persons) taken by them during the reporting period.  Requires such reports to be made public. 
  Authorizes sanctions in cases of noncompliance.
feat_title: Revolving Door Sunshine Act of 1993