I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1864 
To provide for enhanced retirement benefits for administrative law judges. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2005 
Mr. WYNN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Government Reform 
A BILL 
To provide for enhanced retirement benefits for 
administrative law judges. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCES. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2005’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Whenever in this Act an amend-
ment is expressed in terms of an amendment to a section 
or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be 
made to a section or other provision of title 5, United 
States Code.
SEC. 2. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE CIVIL SERVICE RE-
TIREMENT SYSTEM. 
(a) DEFINITION.—Section 8331 is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (28), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in the first paragraph (29), by striking the 
period and inserting a semicolon; 
(3) in the second paragraph (29)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(29)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(30)’’; and 
(B) by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(31) ‘administrative law judge’ means an ad-
ministrative law judge appointed under section 3105 
or a similar prior provision of law.’’. 
(b) DEDUCTIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS, AND DEPOS-
ITS.—Section 8334 is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(A), by striking ‘‘or nu-
clear materials courier,’’ and inserting ‘‘nuclear ma-
terials courier, or administrative law judge,’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)(1)(B)— 
(A) in the first sentence of clause (i), by 
striking ‘‘clause (ii),’’ and inserting ‘‘clause (ii) 
or (iii),’’; and
(B) by adding after clause (ii) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iii) In the case of an administrative law judge, the 
amount to be contributed under this subparagraph shall 
(instead of the amount described in clause (i)) be equal 
to the amount derived by multiplying the administrative 
law judge’s basic pay by the percentage that is 1 percent-
age point less than the percentage applicable under sub-
section (c).’’; and 
(3) in subsection (c), by adding after the item 
relating to a nuclear materials courier the following: 
‘‘Administrative law judge .........................
5 ..........
June 11, 1947, to June 
30, 1948. 
6 ..........
July 1, 1948, to Octo-
ber 31, 1956. 
6.5 .......
November 1, 1956, to 
December 31, 1969. 
7 ..........
January 1, 1970, to De-
cember 31, 1998. 
7.25 .....
January 1, 1999, to De-
cember 31, 1999. 
7.4 .......
January 1, 2000, to De-
cember 31, 2000. 
7 ..........
January 1, 2001, to 
(but not including) 
the effective date of 
the Administrative 
Law Judges Retire-
ment Act of 2005.
8 ..........
The effective date of the 
Administrative Law 
Judges Retirement 
Act of 2005 and 
thereafter.’’. 
(c) IMMEDIATE
RETIREMENT.—Section 8336 is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(q) An administrative law judge who is separated 
from the service after completing 10 years of service as 
an administrative law judge and becoming 55 years of age 
is entitled to an annuity. An administrative law judge who 
is separated from the service voluntarily after completing 
10 years of service as an administrative law judge but be-
fore becoming 55 years of age is entitled to a reduced an-
nuity. An administrative law judge is entitled to an annu-
ity if such judge would be entitled to an annuity under 
subsection (d) if such subsection were applied by sub-
stituting ‘5’ for ‘25 years of service or after becoming 50 
years of age and completing 20’, and the reference to ‘re-
moval for cause on charges of misconduct or delinquency’ 
in paragraph (1) thereof were considered to refer to a re-
moval under section 1215, 7521, or 7532.’’. 
(d) COMPUTATION OF ANNUITY.—Section 8339 is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘(r), and (s)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(r), (s), and (v)’’; 
(2) in the first sentence of subsection (h), by 
striking ‘‘subsections (a), (b), (d)(5), and (f)’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘(h), (j), or (o) of this title’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsections (a), (b), (d)(5), (f), and 
(v) for an employee retiring under subsection (d),
(h), (j), or (o), or the second sentence of subsection 
(q), of section 8336’’; 
(3) in subsection (i), by striking ‘‘(r), or (s)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(r), (s), or (v)’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(v) The annuity of an employee retiring under sec-
tion 8336(q) is computed under such provisions of this 
section as would (but for this subsection) otherwise apply, 
except that, with respect to such employee’s— 
‘‘(1) service as an administrative law judge, and 
‘‘(2) military service not exceeding 5 years, 
such employee’s annuity is computed by multiplying 21⁄2 
percent of such employee’s average pay by the years of 
that service.’’. 
(e) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Sections 8337(a) and 8339(g) are amended by striking 
‘‘or (s)’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘(s), or (v)’’. 
(2) Subsections (j), (k)(1), (l), and (m) of section 
8339, subsections (b)(1) and (d) of section 8341, section 
8343a(c), and section 8344(a)(A) are amended by striking 
‘‘and (s)’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘(s), and 
(v)’’. 
(3) Subsections (j)(3) (in the third sentence before 
the sentence containing subparagraph (A)), (j)(5)(C)(iii),