Title: Congress LEADS Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Congress Leadership in Ending Annuities for Dishonorable Service Act or the Congress LEADS Act
This bill prohibits a Member of Congress who is convicted of sexual abuse from collecting a retirement annuity under either the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees Retirement System.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6726 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6726

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that a Member of 
Congress convicted of certain felony offenses relating to sexual abuse 
      shall not be eligible for retirement benefits based on that 
          individual's Member service, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2022

  Mr. Crow (for himself, Ms. Stefanik, and Ms. Speier) 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 that a Member of 
Congress convicted of certain felony offenses relating to sexual abuse 
      shall not be eligible for retirement benefits based on that 
          individual's Member service, 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 ``Congress Leadership in Ending 
Annuities for Dishonorable Service Act'' or the ``Congress LEADS Act''.

SEC. 2. FORFEITURE OF CSRS OR FERS ANNUITY BASED ON SERVICE AS A MEMBER 
              OF CONGRESS AFTER CONVICTION OF FELONY SEXUAL ABUSE.

    (a) Civil Service Retirement System.--Section 8332(o)(2) of title 
5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(iii)--
                    (A) by striking ``or'' at the end of subclause (I);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of subclause 
                (II) and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(III) is committed after the date of enactment of 
                the Congress Leadership in Ending Annuities for 
                Dishonorable Service Act and is described in 
                subparagraph (B)(xxxii).''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by adding at the end the 
        following:
            ``(xxxii) An offense under chapter 109A of title 18 
        (relating to sexual abuse).''.
    (b) Federal Employees Retirement System.--Section 8411(l)(2)(C) of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking the period at the 
end and inserting the following: ``, or, in the case of an offense 
described in section 8332(o)(2)(B)(xxxii), after the date of enactment 
of the Congress Leadership in Ending Annuities for Dishonorable Service 
Act.''.
    (c) Application.--For purposes of applying section 8332(o) or 
8411(l) 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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