To reduce the period of the availability of allowances for former Speakers of the House of Representatives to one year, beginning on the date of the expiration of an individual's service as Speaker.

Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1971 to reduce from five years to one year the period of availability to former Speakers of the House of Representatives of entitlements to use of office, allowance, franked mail, and additional staff to facilitate the administration, settlement, and conclusion of matters pertaining to or arising out of his or her incumbency as Speaker.

Starts the one-year period on the date of the expiration of an individual's service as Speaker (currently, at the expiration of the individual's term of office as a Representative in Congress).

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3904 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3904

   To reduce the period of the availability of allowances for former 
Speakers of the House of Representatives to one year, beginning on the 
     date of the expiration of an individual's service as Speaker.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2014

Mr. Barrow of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reduce the period of the availability of allowances for former 
Speakers of the House of Representatives to one year, beginning on the 
     date of the expiration of an individual's service as Speaker.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TIMING OF AVAILABILITY OF ALLOWANCES FOR FORMER SPEAKERS.

    (a) 1-Year Period of Availability; Period To Begin Upon Expiration 
of Service as Speaker.--Section 8(2) of House Resolution 1238, Ninety-
first Congress, agreed to December 22, 1970 (as enacted into permanent 
law by chapter VIII of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1971) (2 
U.S.C. 31b-7(2)) is amended by striking ``for 5 years, commencing at 
the expiration of the term of office of the individual as a 
Representative in Congress'' and inserting the following: ``for 1 year, 
commencing at the expiration of the individual's service as Speaker''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Use of office.--The first section of House Resolution 
        1238, Ninety-first Congress, agreed to December 22, 1970 (as 
        enacted into permanent law by chapter VIII of the Supplemental 
        Appropriations Act, 1971) (2 U.S.C. 31b-1(a)), is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``the expiration of his term of 
                office as a Representative in Congress'' and inserting 
                ``the expiration of the individual's service as Speaker 
                of the House of Representatives''; and
                    (B) by striking ``his incumbency in office as a 
                Representative in Congress and as Speaker'' and 
                inserting ``the individual's incumbency in office as 
                Speaker''.
            (2) Availability of allowance.--Section 2 of such House 
        Resolution (2 U.S.C. 31b-2) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``the expiration of his term of 
                office as a Representative in Congress'' and inserting 
                ``the expiration of the individual's service as Speaker 
                of the House of Representatives''; and
                    (B) by striking ``his incumbency in office as a 
                Representative in Congress and as Speaker'' and 
                inserting ``the individual's incumbency in office as 
                Speaker''.
            (3) Franked mail.--Section 4 of such House Resolution (2 
        U.S.C. 31b-4) is amended by striking ``the expiration of his 
        term of office as a Representative in Congress'' and inserting 
        ``the expiration of the individual's service as Speaker of the 
        House of Representatives''.
            (4) Additional staff.--Section 5 of such House Resolution 
        (2 U.S.C. 31b-5) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``his incumbency in office as a 
                Representative in Congress and as Speaker'' and 
                inserting ``the individual's incumbency in office as 
                Speaker''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the expiration of the term of 
                office of the Speaker as a Representative in Congress'' 
                and inserting ``the expiration of the individual's 
                service as Speaker''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to any 
individual who is a former Speaker of the House of Representatives at 
any time before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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