No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act

Bill: 117-hr-3327
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Norman, Ralph [R-SC-5]
Introduced: 2021-05-19
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Members of Congress
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-25
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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. </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3327 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act . 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. .