No Gratuities for Governing Act of 2025

This section would give the Act the short title 'No Gratuities for Governing Act of 2025.'

This section would amend section 666 of title 18, United States Code, the law on bribery and gratuities involving organizations and State, local, and Indian tribal governments that receive Federal funds. First, it would renumber the law's existing subsections (b), (c), and (d) as (c), (d), and (e), to make room for a new subsection (b). Second, it would update a cross-reference in subsection (a) so that it points to the renumbered subsection (c) instead of the old subsection (b); this matches the renumbering and does not change what subsection (a) covers. Third, it would raise the maximum prison term for an offense under subsection (a) from 10 years to 15 years. Fourth, it would add a new subsection (b) creating a separate crime that applies whenever the same triggering condition already required for subsection (a) is present (that condition is defined elsewhere in section 666 and is not itself changed by this bill). Under the new subsection (b), it would be a crime for anyone to directly or indirectly, knowingly and purposefully give, offer, or promise anything worth $1,000 or more to an agent of an organization, or of a State, local, or Indian tribal government or agency, for or because of an official act that agent performed, if that act was connected to a business transaction or series of transactions of the organization, government, or agency worth $5,000 or more. The new subsection (b) would equally make it a crime for such an agent to directly or indirectly, knowingly and purposefully demand, seek, receive, accept, or agree to receive or accept anything worth $1,000 or more, personally, for or because of an official act the agent performed in connection with such a business transaction or series of transactions worth $5,000 or more. A person convicted under this new subsection (b) would face a fine, up to 2 years in prison, or both, a lower maximum penalty than the 15 years set for subsection (a). Fifth, it would amend the renumbered subsection (c) so that the triggering condition it describes applies to both subsection (a) and the new subsection (b), instead of only to subsection (a) as before.