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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.
Introduced March 18, 2026 by Roger F. Wicker · Last progress March 20, 2026