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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 1603

To amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to extend

the civil service retirement provisions of such chapter which are applicable

to law enforcement officers.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

OCTOBER 29 (legislative day, OCTOBER 13), 1993

Mr. COCHRAN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred

to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

A BILL

To amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States

Code, to extend the civil service retirement provisions

of such chapter which are applicable to law enforcement

officers.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

4 (a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 8331 of title 5, United

5 States Code, is amended—

6 (1) by striking out ‘‘and’’ at the end of para7 graph (25);
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1 (2) by striking out the period at the end of

2 paragraph (26) and inserting in lieu thereof a semi3 colon and ‘‘and’’; and

4 (3) by adding at the end thereof the following

5 new paragraph:

6 ‘‘(27) ‘fish and wildlife officer’ means a law en7 forcement officer of the Refuge Division of the

8 United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the De9 partment of the Interior.’’.

10 (b) DEDUCTIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS, AND DEPOS11 ITS.—Section 8334 of title 5, United States Code, is

12 amended—

13 (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking out ‘‘a law

14 enforcement officer,’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘a

15 law enforcement officer, a fish and wildlife officer’’;

16 and

17 (2) in the table in subsection (c), by striking

18 out ‘‘and firefighter for firefighter service.’’ and in19 serting in lieu thereof ‘‘, firefighter for firefighter

20 service, and a fish and wildlife officer for fish and

21 wildlife service.’’.

22 (c) IMMEDIATE RETIREMENT.—Section 8336(c)(1)

23 of such title is amended by striking out ‘‘law enforcement

24 officer or firefighter,’’ and inserting ‘‘law enforcement offi25 cer, a firefighter, or a’’.
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1 SEC. 2. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

2 (a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 8401 of title 5, United

3 States Code, is amended—

4 (1) by striking out ‘‘and’’ at the end of para5 graph (31);

6 (2) by striking out the period at the end of

7 paragraph (32) and inserting in lieu thereof a semi8 colon and ‘‘and’’; and

9 (3) by adding at the end thereof the following

10 new paragraph:

11 ‘‘(33) ‘fish and wildlife officer’ means a law en12 forcement officer of the Refuge Division of the

13 United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the De14 partment of the Interior.’’.

15 (b) IMMEDIATE RETIREMENT.—Section 8412(a) of

16 title 5, United States Code, is amended—

17 (1) in paragraph (1) by striking out ‘‘or fire18 fighter,’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘firefighter, or

19 fish and wildlife officer,’’; and

20 (2) in paragraph (2) by striking out ‘‘or fire21 fighter,’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘firefighter, or

22 fish and wildlife officer’’.

23 (c) COMPUTATION OF BASIC ANNUITY.—Section

24 8415(g)(2) of title 5, United States Code, is amended in

25 the sentence following subparagraph (B) by inserting ‘‘fish

26 and wildlife officer,’’ after ‘‘firefighter,’’.
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1 (d) DEDUCTIONS.—Section 8422(a)(2) of title 5,

2 United States Code, is amended—

3 (1) in subparagraph (A) by inserting ‘‘fish and

4 wildlife officer,’’ after ‘‘air traffic controller,’’; and

5 (2) in subparagraph (B) by inserting ‘‘fish and

6 wildlife officer,’’ after ‘‘air traffic controller,’’.

7 (e) GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS.—Section

8 8423(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended—

9 (1) in paragraph (1)(B)(i) by inserting ‘‘fish

10 and wildlife officer,’’ after ‘‘law enforcement offi11 cer,’’; and

12 (2) in paragraph (3)(A) by inserting ‘‘fish and

13 wildlife officer,’’ after ‘‘law enforcement officer,’’.

14 (f) MANDATORY SEPARATION.—Section 8425(b) of

15 title 5, United States Code, is amended in the second sen16 tence by inserting ‘‘or fish and wildlife officer’’ after ‘‘law

17 enforcement officer’’.

18 SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

19 (a) EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS.—Any individual

20 who has served as a fish and wildlife officer before the

21 effective date of this Act, shall have such service credited

22 and annuities determined in accordance with the amend23 ments made by sections 1 and 2 of this Act, if such indi24 vidual makes payment into the Civil Service Retirement

25 and Disability Fund of an amount, determined by the Of-
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1 fice of Personnel Management, which would have been de2 ducted and withheld from the basic pay of such individual

3 (including interest thereon) under chapters 83 and 84 of

4 title 5, United States Code, as if such amendments had

5 been in effect during the periods of such service.

6 (b) AGENCY CONTRIBUTIONS.—No later than 90

7 days after a payment made by an individual under sub8 section (a), the Department of the Interior shall make a

9 payment into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability

10 Fund of an amount, determined by the Office of Personnel

11 Management, which would have been contributed as a

12 Government contribution (including interest thereon)

13 under chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code,

14 for the service credited and annuities determined for such

15 individual, as if the amendments made by sections 1 and

16 2 of this Act had been in effect during the applicable peri17 ods of service.

18 (c) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel Man19 agement shall determine the amount of interest to be paid

20 under this section and may promulgate regulations to

21 carry out the provisions of this Act.

22 SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

23 The provisions of this Act and amendments made by

24 this Act shall take effect on the date occurring 90 days

25 after the date of enactment of this Act.
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