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The bill grants a one-off, expedited posthumous promotion to provide timely recognition and closure for a soldier's family, while bypassing standard procedural safeguards and creating a narrow precedent that requires Congressional attention without broader benefits or funding.
Capt. Cody Khork's family (and similar individual beneficiaries): allows the posthumous promotion to take effect sooner than the normal statutory notice period, providing quicker official recognition and emotional closure.
Capt. Cody Khork and the military community: grants an honorary posthumous promotion to major, formally recognizing his service.
Military personnel and the public: the waiver bypasses the usual statutory notice safeguard, reducing procedural transparency for this case.
Congress, taxpayers, and future claimants: this narrowly targeted waiver creates no new benefit or funding and may set a precedent requiring individual Congressional action for similar cases, consuming legislative time and resources.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Waives the 60-day statutory notice requirement to allow a posthumous honorary promotion of Captain Cody Khork to the rank of major; no other legal or funding changes.
Waives the statutory 60-day notice requirement in 10 U.S.C. §1563a(b) to allow a posthumous honorary promotion of Captain Cody Khork, U.S. Army, to the rank of major. The bill makes no other changes to law, funding, or procedures.
Official title: Waive the 60-day notice requirement for the posthumous honorary promotion of Captain Cody Khork, United States Army.
Introduced March 18, 2026 by Roger F. Wicker · Last progress March 20, 2026