should have been made for such service if subsection 
(b) had then been in effect (with interest). 
(2) EFFECT OF NOT CONTRIBUTING.—If less than 
the full contribution under paragraph (1) is made, all 
prior qualified service of the individual shall remain 
fully creditable as law enforcement officer service, but 
the resulting annuity (before cost-of-living adjust-
ments) shall be reduced in a manner such that, when 
combined with the unpaid amount, would result in 
the present value of the total being actuarially equiva-
lent to the present value of the annuity that would 
otherwise have been payable if the full contribution 
had been made. 
(e) GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PRIOR QUALI-
FIED SERVICE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—If an individual makes an 
election under subsection (c)(2)(B), the Department of 
Homeland Security shall remit, with respect to any 
prior qualified service, the total amount of additional 
Government contributions that would have been re-
quired for such service under the retirement system 
involved if subsection (b) had then been in effect (with 
interest). 
(2) CONTRIBUTIONS
TO
BE
MADE
RATABLY.— 
Government contributions under this subsection on 
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behalf of an individual shall be made ratably (on at 
least an annual basis) over the ten-year period begin-
ning on the date an individual’s retirement deduc-
tions begin to be made. 
(f) EXEMPTION FROM MANDATORY SEPARATION.—Ef-
fective during the three-year period beginning on the date 
of the enactment of this Act, nothing in this section shall 
result in any individual being involuntarily separated on 
account of the provisions of any retirement system relating 
to the mandatory separation of a law enforcement officer 
on account of age or age and service combined. 
(g) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section 
shall be considered to apply in the case of a reemployed 
annuitant. 
(h) REGULATIONS.—Any regulations necessary to 
carry out this section shall be prescribed in consultation 
with the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 502. PLAN TO IMPROVE REPRESENTATION OF MINORI-
TIES IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF EMPLOY-
MENT. 
(a) PLAN FOR IMPROVING REPRESENTATION OF MI-
NORITIES.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Chief Human Capital Officer of 
the Department of Homeland Security shall prepare and 
transmit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
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House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Se-
curity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the 
Comptroller General of the United States a plan to achieve 
the objective of addressing any under representation of mi-
norities in the various categories of civil service employ-
ment within such Department. Such plan shall identify and 
describe any barriers to achieving the objective described in 
the preceding sentence and the strategies and measures in-
cluded in the plan to overcome them. 
(b) ASSESSMENTS.—Not later than 1 year after receiv-
ing the plan, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall assess— 
(1) any programs and other measures currently 
being implemented to achieve the objective described 
in the first sentence of subsection (a); and 
(2) the likelihood that the plan will allow the De-
partment to achieve such objective. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘under representation’’ means when 
the members of a minority group within a category 
of Federal civil service employment constitute a lower 
percentage of the total number of employees within 
the employment category than the percentage that the 
minority constitutes within the labor force of the Fed-
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