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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 272
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide civil service retirement
credit to a Federal employee for any period of service performed with
the American Red Cross abroad during a period of war.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 4, 1995
Mr. JACOBS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Government Reform and Oversight
A BILL
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide civil service
retirement credit to a Federal employee for any period
of service performed with the American Red Cross
abroad during a period of war.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CREDITABILITY OF SERVICE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8332 of title 5, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing:
‘‘(o) Any employee who, during a period of war as
defined by section 1101 of title 38, leaves such employee’s
position to serve with the American Red Cross abroad
shall, if such employee subsequently becomes employed or
reemployed in a position subject to this subchapter, be al-
lowed credit (as civilian service) for any such service
abroad during such period.’’.
(b) 
DEDUCTIONS
AND
DEPOSITS.—Section
8334(g)(6) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by
striking ‘‘section 8332(l)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (l) or
(o) of section 8332’’.
SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.
(a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act and the amend-
ments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of
the enactment of this Act.
(b) APPLICABILITY.—Subject to subsection (c), the
amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to
annuities which commence before, on, or after the effective
date of this Act, except that no monetary benefit by reason
of such amendments shall accrue for any period before
such effective date.
(c) RECOMPUTATIONS.—
(1) APPLICATION REQUIREMENT.—An annuity
or survivor annuity based on the service of an em-
ployee who performed service described in section
8332(o) of title 5, United States Code, as added by
section 1, shall, upon application to the Office of
Personnel Management, be recomputed in accord-
ance with such section 8332(o).
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECOMPUTED ANNU-
ITY.—Any recomputation of an annuity under para-
graph (1) shall apply with respect to months begin-
ning more than 30 days after the date on which ap-
plication for such recomputation is received by the
Office.
(d) NOTIFICATION AND ASSISTANCE TO ELIGIBLE
INDIVIDUALS.—
(1) NOTIFICATION.—The Office of Personnel
Management shall take such action as may be nec-
essary and appropriate to inform individuals entitled
to have any service credited under section 8332(o)
of title 5, United States Code, as added by section
1, or to have any annuity recomputed under sub-
section (c), of their entitlement to such credit or re-
computation.
(2) ASSISTANCE BY OPM.—The Office shall, on
request, assist any individual referred to in para-
graph (1) in obtaining from any department, agency,
or other instrumentality of the United States such
information possessed by such instrumentality as
may be necessary to verify the entitlement of such
individual to have any service credited under such
section 8332(o) or to have any annuity recomputed
under subsection (c).
(3) ASSISTANCE
BY
OTHER
AGENCIES.—Any
department, agency, or other instrumentality of the
United States which possesses any information with
respect to any service performed by any individual
as described in such section 8332(o) shall, at the re-
quest of the Office, furnish such information to the
Office.
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