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Rep. Subramanyam, Suhas [D-VA-10] · D–VA
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2026-08-27 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill would rewrite the federal charter—the law establishing and governing the organization—for the Reserve Organization of America. It would set rules for the organization, its leaders and members, including internal governance and financial restrictions. Its stated purpose would be to support and promote the development and execution of military policy intended to provide adequate national security. These are proposed provisions, not evidence of enacted changes.
Title 36 of the United States Code is amended by amending chapter 1901 to read as follows:
Reserve Organization of America (referred to in this chapter as the corporation) is a federally chartered corporation.
The purposes of the corporation are to support and promote the development and execution of a military policy for the United States that will provide adequate national security.
The governing body is as defined in the constitution of the corporation.
The corporation may not engage in business for profit.
The bill would name the replacement charter “Reserve Organization of America.” It would also update the chapter listing and treat federal records referring to the Reserve Officers Association of the United States as referring to the Reserve Organization of America.
1901 Reserve Organization of America
The chapter analysis for title 36, United States Code, is amended, in the item relating to chapter 1901, by striking Reserve Officers Association of the United States and inserting Reserve Organization of America.
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to Reserve Officers Association of the United States shall be deemed to be a reference to the Reserve Organization of America.
The proposed charter would give the organization continuing existence without a fixed end date, except as otherwise provided. It would allow any lawful act necessary and proper to carry out its stated purposes.
Except as otherwise provided, the corporation has perpetual existence.
The corporation may do any lawful act necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of the corporation.
Membership eligibility would be determined by the organization's constitution and bylaws. Its constitution would define its governing body, it would have to hold an annual meeting, and its governing body would choose its headquarters location.
Eligibility for membership in the corporation is as provided in the constitution and bylaws of the corporation.
The corporation shall hold an annual meeting. (b) Governing body The governing body is as defined in the constitution of the corporation.
The headquarters of the corporation shall be in such place as determined by the governing body.
The organization and its subordinate entities would have exclusive rights to use the Reserve Organization of America name and the seals, emblems and badges it adopts.
The corporation and its subordinate entities have the exclusive right to use the name Reserve Organization of America and seals, emblems, and badges the corporation adopts.
The organization could not conduct business for profit or issue stock. Its income and assets could not be used for members' benefit or distributed to them.
The corporation may not engage in business for profit. (b) Stock The corporation may not issue stock.
The income or assets of the corporation may not inure to the benefit of or be distributed to any of its members.
The organization and members acting on its behalf could not make contributions to support or assist a political party or candidate for public office.
Neither the corporation, nor any of its members acting on its behalf, may contribute to support or assist a political party or candidate for public office.
The organization could not make loans or advances to officers or governing-body members. For a loan or advance to an officer, governing-body members who approve it and officers who participate would each be responsible to the organization for the full unpaid amount until repayment.
The corporation may not make a loan or advance to an officer or member of the governing body. Members of the governing body who vote for or assent to making a loan or advance to an officer and officers who participate in making the loan or advance, are jointly and severally liable to the corporation for the amount of the loan or advance until it is repaid.
The organization would have to maintain complete and accurate accounting records, minutes of governing-body proceedings and formal member meetings, and a membership list with names and addresses at its principal office.
The corporation shall keep— (1) correct and complete records of account; (2) minutes of the proceedings of the governing body and formal meetings of the members, including any annual meeting; and (3) at its principal office, a record of the names and addresses of its members.
Voting members, or their agents or attorneys, could inspect the organization's records for a proper purpose at a reasonable time after reasonable notice.
A member entitled to vote or an agent or attorney of the member, may inspect the records of the corporation for any proper purpose, at any reasonable time, and upon reasonable notice.
The organization would have to maintain a registered agent in the District of Columbia to receive formal legal papers for the organization, a procedure called service of process. Notice to or service on that agent would count as notice to or service on the organization.
The corporation shall have a registered agent in the District of Columbia to receive service of process for the corporation. Notice to or service on the agent is notice to or service on the corporation.
The organization would be legally responsible for acts of its officers and agents performed within the scope of their authority.
The corporation is liable for the acts of its officers and agents acting within the scope of their authority.
The supplied September 29, 2026 source snapshot records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on the Judiciary on August 27, 2026.
Source snapshot updated 2026-09-29T21:24:23Z. 2026-08-27: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. 2026-08-27: Introduced in House
A closer look
Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2026-08-27. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
This review covers the supplied bill text. “None identified” does not rule out provisions in later versions or accompanying reports and disclosures.
Provisions outside the bill’s main subject, or policy changes attached to appropriations.
None identified in the reviewed text
No unrelated provision or policy change attached to appropriations was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion does not cover other versions or accompanying materials or establish an amendment's attachment history.
Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
None identified in the reviewed text
No congressionally directed spending for particular recipients or places was identified in the complete supplied introduced text. This conclusion does not establish absence in other versions or accompanying materials; formal earmark disclosures and related materials were not supplied.
Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
Findings to examine
A narrow legal protection is identified below. This classification does not establish that the protection is new or improper.
The proposed charter would reserve use of the Reserve Organization of America name and its adopted seals, emblems and badges exclusively to that organization and its subordinate entities. This is a narrow legal protection for specified organizational beneficiaries, directly related to the bill's main subject of rewriting the organization's charter.
Title 36 of the United States Code is amended by amending chapter 1901 to read as follows:
The corporation and its subordinate entities have the exclusive right to use the name Reserve Organization of America and seals, emblems, and badges the corporation adopts.
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