[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4314 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4314

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

                            November 8, 2017

  Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government 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 Pensions for Corrupt Politicians 
Act of 2017''.

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 held to be invalid, 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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