Through you to our legal team, Mr. Chair, my interpretation on reading this is that it would have retroactive effect for someone who was on the transition team after January 23.
If that is the case, I feel some real unease, colleagues, particularly if it applies to a volunteer position that is for a certain period of time, as opposed to someone who was paid or was working in a regular capacity and may have been covered by the Lobbyist Registration Act of an earlier time. The retroactive impact of this on someone who volunteers unknowingly--certainly--and in good faith is that they'd be restricted from gainful employment.
As a matter of going forward, I don't have any difficulty with it, but the retroactive impact, if that's what it has--that's the way I read it--troubles me.