Bill blocks federal contracts to part-time government workers and their families
H.R. 2824 — Employee Limits ON Profiteering Act · Filed by Kathy Castor (D-FL) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill prohibits the federal government from awarding contracts, grants, or other federal funds to special government employees (part-time or temporary federal workers) or their close relatives and business associates. The exception allows special employees who only serve on advisory committees to remain eligible. The bill requires the Federal Acquisition Regulation to be updated within 60 days to enforce this ban.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core mechanism is a straightforward prohibition on federal awards to a defined class of government insiders and their financial associates, designed to prevent self-dealing and protect the integrity of federal contracting.
What the text implies
- The definition of 'covered third party' includes organizations where a special employee serves as an employee (not just officer/director), which may sweep in ordinary employees of firms where a special employee works, creating potential over-breadth.
- The 60-day FAR revision deadline is tight and may create implementation ambiguity if the Acquisition Regulation office lacks clarity on how to identify special employees across all federal agencies.
- Advisory committee exception preserves a loophole: special employees can still influence federal policy through committees and then potentially benefit indirectly through contracts awarded to their organizations if the committee work is deemed separate.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill reduces conflicts of interest by blocking federal money from flowing to part-time government workers and their family members or businesses, which protects the integrity of federal contracting and ensures public funds are not diverted to private interests of government insiders. The restriction is narrow (applies only to special employees, not career civil servants) and serves a clear anti-corruption purpose.
Named in the bill
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Special Government Employees, Advisory committees, Federal contracting
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Democrats.
- Apr 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Apr 10, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $610,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 8 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Kathy Castor, the sponsor, reported $1,028,281 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Crypto Council for Innovation — $610,000 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 15, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,424 characters) on Jun 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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