No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act

No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act

This bill makes a Member of Congress who has been convicted of a crime related to public corruption ineligible between the date of sentencing and the date of final conviction to receive retirement payments pursuant to the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees' Retirement System based on their service as a Member.

Under current law, a Member must forgo receipt of these payments only after a final conviction (i.e., after the exhaustion of all appeals under the judicial process).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5980 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5980

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the temporary halt 
   in pension payments for Members of Congress sentenced for certain 
                   offenses, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2020

   Mr. Norman (for himself, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Rouda, Mr. 
   Meadows, and Mrs. Axne) introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to 
the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the temporary halt 
   in pension payments for Members of Congress sentenced for certain 
                   offenses, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Congressionally Obligated 
Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act''.

SEC. 2. FORFEITURE OF PENSION.

    Section 8332(o) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(7)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), an individual convicted of an 
offense described in paragraph (2) shall not, between the date of 
sentencing and the date of final conviction for such offense, be 
eligible to receive any payment of an annuity pursuant to the 
retirement system under this subchapter or chapter 84, except that this 
sentence applies only to such payments based on service rendered as a 
Member (irrespective of when rendered).
    ``(B) If the conviction of an individual described in subparagraph 
(A) is held to be invalid, such individual shall receive payments that 
such individual would have received but for application of subparagraph 
(A).
    ``(C) The provisions of this paragraph only apply to a conviction 
that occurs after the date of enactment of this paragraph.''.
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