PUBLIC LAW 101-194—NOV. 30, 1989 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 deter- mination, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other particular matter in which the District of Columbia is a party or 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 rep- resenting his parents, spouse, child, or any person for whom, or for any estate for which, he is serving as guardian, executor, adminis- trator, 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 em- ployee 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.". SEC. 403. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 204 OF TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE. Section 204 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
- '§ 204. Practice in United States Claims Court or the United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by Members of Congress "Whoever, being a Member of Congress or Member of Congress Elect, practices in the United States Claims Court or the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 216 of this title.". District of Columbia. Grants. Contracts. Federeil Register, publication.
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