Sec. 108. General public integrity rules
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The limitations described in section 502 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) shall apply to full-time senior government officials. All Federal laws or regulations relating to conflicts of interest or other ethics issues (as defined in section 409 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as added by section 511 of this Act) shall apply to any individual who is employed by the Federal Government and voluntarily refuses compensation for such employment consistent with applicable law.
All Federal ethics rules shall apply to an individual designated as a Special Government Employee to the same extent that they apply to regular Government employees beginning on the date that is 61 days after the date on which the Special Government Employee commences employment during a 365-day period. Except as provided in paragraph (2), no senior government official (except a Member of Congress, the President, and the Vice President) may— in the course of official duty, meet or communicate with, or work on any particular matter that affects, any person to whom the senior government official owes more than $100,000; or receive a loan of more than $100,000 from any person the senior government official has met or communicated with, or plans to meet or communicate with, during the course of their official duty.
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(1)shall not apply to— commercial debt such as residential mortgages, car loans, credit card debt, student loans, or any debts owed to domestic financial institutions on terms generally available to the public; or meetings with domestic financial institutions.