Title: No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
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 to receive certain retirement payments between the date of sentencing and the date of final conviction. Such retirement payments are those made under the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees' Retirement System based on the individual's 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). The bill eliminates these payments to a Member from the date of sentencing for the conviction.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3327 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3327

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

                              May 19, 2021

   Mr. Norman (for himself, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. 
   Comer, Mr. Khanna, and Mr. Rice of South Carolina) 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 overturned by a court of competent jurisdiction, 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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