Title: Holding SSA Employees Accountable Act
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Holding SSA Employees Accountable Act
This bill prohibits employees of the Social Security Administration who are convicted of certain offenses related to their official duties from further participating in federal annuity programs.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4396 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4396

  To amend title II of the Social Security Act to prohibit credit for 
 service for purposes of a Federal annuity to employees of the Social 
Security Administration for certain violations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2021

 Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Norman, Mr. 
   Schweikert, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. 
  Graves of Louisiana, Mr. Posey, Mr. Carter of Texas, and Mr. Perry) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
   Ways and Means, 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 II of the Social Security Act to prohibit credit for 
 service for purposes of a Federal annuity to employees of the Social 
Security Administration for certain violations, 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 ``Holding SSA Employees Accountable 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LOSS OF CREDIT FOR FEDERAL PENSION AFTER CERTAIN VIOLATIONS.

    Section 208 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 408) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an individual 
convicted of an offense under subsection (a) may not receive credit 
under section 8332 or section 8411 (as the case may be) of title 5, 
United States Code, for any service that occurs on or after the date on 
which the offense for which the individual was convicted occurs, if, 
with respect to such conviction, every act or omission of the 
individual that is needed to satisfy the elements of the offense--
            ``(A) is committed while the individual is an employee of 
        the Social Security Administration; and
            ``(B) directly relates to the performance of the 
        individual's official duties.
    ``(2) An individual convicted of an offense described in paragraph 
(1)--
            ``(A) shall not, after the date of the conviction, be 
        further eligible to participate in the retirement system under 
        chapter 83 or 84 of title 5, United States Code; and
            ``(B) shall be entitled to be paid any amounts contributed 
        by the individual towards an annuity that were contributed on 
        or after the date on which the offense for which the individual 
        was convicted under this section occurs pursuant to, or in a 
        similar manner as, the terms of section 8316 of such title.
    ``(3) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management, in 
consultation with the Commissioner of Social Security, shall prescribe 
any regulations necessary to carry out this section.
    ``(4) This subsection shall apply with respect to any offense that 
occurs on or after the date of enactment of this subsection.''.
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