Title: No CORRUPTION Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act or the No CORRUPTION Act
This bill makes a Member of Congress who has been convicted of a crime related to public corruption ineligible to receive retirement payments pursuant to the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees' Retirement System based on 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 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 693 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 693

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 10, 2021

    Ms. Rosen (for herself and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
               Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the 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'' 
or the ``No CORRUPTION Act''.

SEC. 2. FORFEITURE OF PENSION.

    (a) In General.--Section 8332(o) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) as 
        paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
    ``(4)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), an individual convicted of an 
offense described in paragraph (2) shall not 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 on appeal by a court of competent jurisdiction, the 
individual shall receive payments that the individual would have 
received but for the application of subparagraph (A).
    ``(C) This paragraph applies only to a conviction that occurs after 
the date of enactment of the No Congressionally Obligated Recurring 
Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act.'';
            (3) in paragraph (5)(B)(i), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``paragraph (5)'' and inserting ``paragraph (6)''; and
            (4) in paragraph (6), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``paragraph (4)(B)'' and inserting ``paragraph (5)(B)''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--Section 719(e)(2) of title 
38, United States Code, is amended by striking ``section 8332(o)(5)'' 
and inserting ``section 8332(o)(6)''.
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