REAP Act

Restoring and Enforcing Accountability of Presidents Act or the REAP Act

This bill eliminates the monetary allowance and funding for travel expenses for any former President convicted of a felony while holding office or for acts committed during or after holding office.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1153 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1153

  To eliminate certain benefits for former Presidents convicted of a 
                    felony, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 2021

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York (for himself and Ms. Jayapal) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To eliminate certain benefits for former Presidents convicted of a 
                    felony, 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 ``Restoring and Enforcing 
Accountability of Presidents Act'' or the ``REAP Act''.

SEC. 2. FORFEITURE OF BENEFITS FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS CONVICTED OF A 
              FELONY.

    The Act entitled ``An Act to provide retirement, clerical 
assistants, and free mailing privileges to former Presidents of the 
United States, and for other purposes'', approved August 25, 1958 
(commonly known as the ``Former Presidents Act of 1958''; 3 U.S.C. 102 
note), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Each former 
        President'' and inserting ``Subject to subsection (h), each 
        former President'';
            (2) in subsection (f), by striking paragraph (2) and 
        inserting:
            ``(2) who has not been impeached by the House of 
        Representatives and convicted by the Senate pursuant to the 
        impeachment.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h)(1) If a former President is finally convicted of a felony for 
which every act or omission that is needed to satisfy the elements of 
the felony is committed during or after the period such former 
President holds the office of President of the United States of 
America, or was finally convicted of such a felony while holding such 
office--
            ``(A) no monetary allowance under subsection (a) may be 
        provided to such former President;
            ``(B) no funds may be obligated or expended under 
        subsection (g) with respect to such former President except to 
        the extent necessary to maintain the security of such former 
        President, as determined by the Director of the Secret Service; 
        and
            ``(C) such former President shall repay any amounts 
        received under subsection (a) during the period beginning on 
        the date on which such former President is initially convicted 
        of the felony and ending on the date such former President is 
        finally convicted of the felony.
    ``(2) The term `finally convicted' means a conviction--
            ``(A) which has not been appealed and is no longer 
        appealable because the time for taking an appeal has expired; 
        or
            ``(B) which has been appealed and the appeals process for 
        which is completed.''.
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