Statutory Term Limits on Congressional Pay and Power Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9230 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9230

   To prohibit a Member of Congress from serving as chair or ranking 
 minority member of a committee of the House of Representatives or the 
 Senate after 12 years of service in the House or the Senate, and for 
                            other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2026

   Mr. Roy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on 
    Oversight and Government Reform, and Rules, 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 prohibit a Member of Congress from serving as chair or ranking 
 minority member of a committee of the House of Representatives or the 
 Senate after 12 years of service in the House or the Senate, 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 ``Statutory Term Limits on 
Congressional Pay and Power Act''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTIONS ON MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AFTER CERTAIN PERIOD OF 
              SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--A Member of Congress (including a Delegate or 
Resident Commissioner to the Congress) who has served 12 or more 
cumulative years in the House of Representatives or in the Senate, as 
the case may be, may not, on and after the date that the Member reaches 
12 years of service in the Member's respective House of Congress, be 
eligible for any covered benefit described in subsection (b).
    (b) Covered Benefit Described.--A covered benefit described in this 
subsection is any of the following:
            (1) Any payment otherwise required to be made with respect 
        to a pay period for the compensation of the Member of Congress 
        under section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 
        1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501).
            (2) Serving as the chair or ranking minority member of any 
        standing or select committee in the House of Representatives or 
        the Senate or in a House or Senate leadership position.
    (c) House or Senate Leadership Position Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``House or Senate leadership position'' means any of the 
following:
            (1) The head of any office of the House of Representatives 
        for which the appropriation for salaries and expenses of the 
        office for a fiscal year is provided under the heading ``House 
        Leadership Offices'' in the act making appropriations for the 
        Legislative Branch for the fiscal year involved.
            (2) The President pro Tempore, Majority or Minority Leader, 
        Majority or Minority Whip, chair of the Majority or Minority 
        Conference Committee, or chair of the Majority or Minority 
        Policy Committee of the Senate.
    (d) Rules of House of Representatives and Senate.--This section is 
enacted by Congress--
            (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate 
        and House of Representatives, respectively, and as such are 
        deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but 
        applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in 
        that House in the case of a joint resolution, and they 
        supersede other rules only to the extent that they are 
        inconsistent with such rules; and
            (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the 
        procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and 
        to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that 
        House.
    (e) Effective Date.--The prohibition under this section shall apply 
with respect to the One Hundred Twenty-First Congress and each 
succeeding Congress.
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