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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4087 
To permit nonjudicial employees of the District of Columbia courts, employees 
transferred to the Pretrial Services, Parole, Adult Probation, and Of-
fender Supervision Trustee, and employees of the District of Columbia 
Public Defender Service to have periods of service performed prior to 
the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 included as part 
of the years of service used to determine the time at which such employ-
ees are eligible to retire under chapter 84 of title 5, United States 
Code, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 19, 2005 
Ms. NORTON (for herself and Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform 
A BILL 
To permit nonjudicial employees of the District of Columbia 
courts, employees transferred to the Pretrial Services, 
Parole, Adult Probation, and Offender Supervision 
Trustee, and employees of the District of Columbia Pub-
lic Defender Service to have periods of service performed 
prior to the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 
1997 included as part of the years of service used to 
determine the time at which such employees are eligible 
to retire under chapter 84 of title 5, United States 
Code, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia 
Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender 
Employees Equity Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. RETIREMENT CREDIT FOR SERVICE OF CERTAIN 
EMPLOYEES TRANSFERRED FROM DISTRICT 
OF COLUMBIA SERVICE TO FEDERAL SERV-
ICE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any individual serving as an em-
ployee or Member (as those terms are defined by section 
8401 of title 5, United States Code) on or after the date 
of enactment of this Act who performed qualifying District 
of Columbia service shall be entitled to have such service 
included in calculating the individual’s creditable service 
under section 8411 of title 5, United States Code, but only 
for purposes of the following provisions of such title: 
(1) Section 8410 (relating to eligibility for an-
nuity). 
(2) Section 8412 (relating to immediate retire-
ment). 
(3) Section 8413 (relating to deferred retire-
ment). 
(4) Section 8414 (relating to early retirement).
(5) Subchapter IV of chapter 84 (relating to 
survivor annuities). 
(6) Subchapter V of chapter 84 (relating to dis-
ability benefits). 
(b) SERVICE NOT INCLUDED IN COMPUTING AMOUNT 
OF ANY ANNUITY.—Qualifying District of Columbia serv-
ice shall not be taken into account for purposes of com-
puting the amount of any benefit payable out of the Civil 
Service Retirement and Disability Fund. 
SEC. 3. QUALIFYING DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SERVICE DE-
FINED. 
In this Act, ‘‘qualifying District of Columbia service’’ 
means any of the following: 
(1) Service performed by an individual as a 
nonjudicial employee of the District of Columbia 
courts— 
(A) which was performed prior to the ef-
fective date of the amendments made by section 
11246(b) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; 
and 
(B) for which the individual did not ever 
receive credit under the provisions of sub-
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 
5, United States Code (other than by virtue of 
section 8331(1)(iv) of such title).
(2) Service performed by an individual as an 
employee of an entity of the District of Columbia 
government whose functions were transferred to the 
Pretrial Services, Parole, Adult Supervision, and Of-
fender Supervision Trustee under section 11232 of 
the Balanced Budget Act of 1997— 
(A) which was performed prior to the ef-
fective date of the individual’s coverage as an 
employee of the Federal Government under sec-
tion 11232(f) of such Act; and 
(B) for which the individual did not ever 
receive credit under the provisions of sub-
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 
5, United States Code (other than by virtue of 
section 8331(1)(iv) of such title). 
(3) Service performed by an individual as an 
employee of the District of Columbia Public De-
fender Service— 
(A) which was performed prior to the ef-
fective date of the amendments made by section 
7(e) of the District of Columbia Courts and 
Justice Technical Corrections Act of 1998; and 
(B) for which the individual did not ever 
receive credit under the provisions of sub-
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title
5, United States Code (other than by virtue of 
section 8331(1)(iv) of such title). 
SEC. 4. CERTIFICATION OF SERVICE. 
The Office of Personnel Management shall accept the 
certification of the appropriate personnel official of the 
government of the District of Columbia concerning wheth-
er an individual performed qualifying District of Columbia 
service and the length of the period of such service the 
individual performed. 
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