Title: TRUST Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:


Trust Returned to the United States Taxpayer Act or the TRUST Act
This bill expands the types of felony convictions that result in the loss of creditable service as a Member of Congress under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System.
Currently, certain felony convictions result in the loss of credit toward a federal retirement annuity for any time served as a Member of Congress. This bill makes any felony conviction under federal or state law result in the loss of credit toward a federal retirement annuity for any time served as a Member of Congress.



[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 355 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 355

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to extend the basis for the 
 denial of retirement credit, for service as a Member of Congress, to 
 include conviction of any felony under Federal or State law, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 8, 2019

   Mr. Yoho 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 extend the basis for the 
 denial of retirement credit, for service as a Member of Congress, to 
 include conviction of any felony under Federal or State law, 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 ``Trust Returned to the United States 
Taxpayer Act'' or the ``TRUST Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Relating to CSRS.--Section 8332(o)(2) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by repealing clause (ii); and
                    (B) in clause (iii)--
                            (i) by striking ``or'' at the end of 
                        subclause (I)(bb);
                            (ii) by striking the period at the end of 
                        subclause (II)(bb) and inserting ``; or''; and
                            (iii) by adding after subclause (II) the 
                        following:
                                    ``(III) is committed after the date 
                                of enactment of the Trust Returned to 
                                the United States Taxpayer Act and is 
                                described under subparagraph 
                                (B)(xxxii).''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                            ``(xxxii)(I) An offense, not otherwise 
                        described under this subparagraph, which is a 
                        felony under the laws of a State or the United 
                        States.
                            ``(II) For purposes of this clause, the 
                        term `State' includes the District of Columbia, 
                        the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American 
                        Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
                        Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.''.
    (b) Relating to FERS.--Section 8411(l)(2) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) by repealing subparagraph (B); and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``subsection.'' and 
        inserting ``subsection, or, in the case of an offense described 
        in section 8332(o)(2)(B)(xxxii), after the date of enactment of 
        the Trust Returned to the United States Taxpayer Act.''.
    (c) Application.--For purposes of applying section 8332(o) of title 
5, United States Code, the amendments made by this section shall apply 
to any act or omission occurring after the date of enactment of this 
Act.
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