[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3741 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3741

To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify certain conduct that 
     is prohibited for purposes of bribery of public officials and 
                   witnesses, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2025

  Mrs. Sykes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify certain conduct that 
     is prohibited for purposes of bribery of public officials and 
                   witnesses, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Closing Bribery Loopholes Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF DEFINITION OF ``OFFICIAL ACT''.

    Section 201(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
            ``(3) the term `official act'--
                    ``(A) means any act within the range of official 
                duty, and any decision, recommendation, or action on 
                any question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding, or 
                controversy, which may at any time be pending, or which 
                may by law be brought before any public official, in 
                such public official's official capacity or in such 
                official's place of trust or profit; and
                    ``(B) may be comprised of a single act, more than 
                one act, or a course of conduct to effect the official 
                act, and may occur whether or not it successfully 
                achieves a desired outcome.''.
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