I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4865 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that an employee of 
the Federal Government or member of the uniformed services may con-
tribute to the Thrift Savings Fund any payment that the employee 
or member receives for accumulated and accrued annual or vacation 
leave, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2010 
Mr. LYNCH (for himself and Mr. CHAFFETZ) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that an 
employee of the Federal Government or member of the 
uniformed services may contribute to the Thrift Savings 
Fund any payment that the employee or member receives 
for accumulated and accrued annual or vacation leave, 
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 ‘‘Federal Employees and 
Uniformed Services Retirement Equity Act of 2010’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THRIFT SAVINGS FUND OF 
PAYMENTS FOR ACCRUED OR ACCUMULATED 
LEAVE. 
(a) AMENDMENTS RELATING
TO CSRS.—Section 
8351(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (2)(A) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(2)(A) An employee or Member may contribute to 
the Thrift Savings Fund in any pay period any amount 
of such employee’s or Member’s basic pay for such pay 
period, and may contribute (by direct transfer to the 
Fund) any part of any payment that the employee or 
Member receives for accumulated and accrued annual or 
vacation leave under sections 5551 or 5552. Notwith-
standing section 2105(e), in this paragraph the term ‘em-
ployee’ includes an employee of the United States Postal 
Service or of the Postal Regulatory Commission.’’; 
(2) by striking subparagraph (B) of paragraph 
(2); and 
(3) by redesignating subparagraph (C) of para-
graph (2) as subparagraph (B). 
(b) AMENDMENTS RELATING TO FERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 8432(a) of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and 
inserting the following: 
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‘‘(1) An employee or Member— 
‘‘(A) may contribute to the Thrift Savings 
Fund in any pay period, pursuant to an election 
under subsection (b), any amount of such employee’s 
or Member’s basic pay for such pay period; and 
‘‘(B) may contribute (by direct transfer to the 
Fund) any part of any payment that the employee 
or Member receives for accumulated and accrued an-
nual or vacation leave under sections 5551 or 5552. 
‘‘(2) Contributions made under paragraph (1)(A) 
pursuant to an election under subsection (b) shall, with 
respect to each pay period for which such election remains 
in effect, be made in accordance with a program of regular 
contributions provided in regulations prescribed by the 
Executive Director.’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(4) Notwithstanding section 2105(e), in this sub-
section the term ‘employee’ includes an employee of the 
United States Postal Service or of the Postal Regulatory 
Commission.’’. 
(2) MEMBERS
OF
THE
UNIFORMED
SERV-
ICES.—Section 8440e(d) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended— 
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(A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 
paragraph (4); and 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following: 
‘‘(3) A member making contributions to the Thrift 
Savings Fund out of basic pay, or out of compensation 
under section 206 of title 37, may also contribute (by di-
rect transfer to the Fund) all or part of any payment that 
such member receives for unused accrued leave under sec-
tion 501 of such title.’’. 
(c) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Executive Director of 
the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board 
shall promulgate regulations to carry out the amend-
ments made by this section. 
(2) AUTHORITY TO PERMIT CONTRIBUTIONS BY 
INDIVIDUALS SUBJECT TO OTHER RETIREMENT SYS-
TEMS.—Under the authority to promulgate regula-
tions under paragraph (1), the Executive Director 
may permit an employee of the Federal Government 
or a member of the uniformed services who is not 
given the authority under any of the amendments 
made by this Act to contribute a payment for accu-
mulated and accrued annual or vacation leave to the 
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Thrift Savings Fund to contribute all or part of any 
such payment to the Fund if— 
(A) the employee or member is authorized 
under law to receive such a payment; 
(B) the employee or member is covered by 
an equivalent Federal employee retirement sys-
tem; and 
(C) the employee or member is authorized 
under law to contribute to the Fund. 
Æ 
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