Title: Federal Retirement Fairness Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federal Retirement Fairness Act
This bill modifies the federal civilian service that is creditable service under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS).
Specifically, it allows service as a temporary or intermittent employee performed after December 1, 1988, to be creditable under FERS if an employee or Member deposits a certain amount into the retirement fund.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5389 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5389

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that civilian service 
  as a temporary employee after December 31, 1988, may be creditable 
 service under the Federal Employees Retirement System, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2018

 Mr. Kilmer (for himself, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Carbajal) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that civilian service 
  as a temporary employee after December 31, 1988, may be creditable 
 service under the Federal Employees Retirement System, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Retirement Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. CREDITABLE SERVICE FOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES SERVING AFTER 1988.

    (a) In General.--Section 8411 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (5);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
                (6) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(7) subject to subsection (m), service as a temporary or 
        intermittent employee, not otherwise creditable for purposes of 
        this chapter, performed after December 31, 1988.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(m)(1) Upon application to the Office of Personnel Management, an 
employee or Member shall be allowed credit for any service described in 
subsection (b)(7) if such employee or Member deposits to the credit of 
the Fund an amount equal to--
            ``(A) 1.3 percent of the base pay for such service, with 
        interest; plus
            ``(B) the applicable Government contribution, as determined 
        by the Director.
    ``(2) Interest shall be computed in the manner described in 
subsection (f)(3).''.
    (b) Requirements.--
            (1) Limitation on eligibility.--An individual who is not an 
        employee or Member (as those terms are defined in paragraphs 
        (11) and (20), respectively, of section 8401 of title 5, United 
        States Code) on the date of enactment of this Act is not 
        eligible to make any deposit under subsection (m) of section 
        8411 of such title (as added by subsection (a)).
            (2) Notification.--The Director of the Office of Personnel 
        Management shall notify agency Chief Human Capital Officers or 
        other appropriate agency officials for purposes of providing 
        notice to eligible employees and Members of the option to make 
        a deposit under such subsection (m).
    (c) Regulations.--The Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management shall promulgate regulations to carry out this Act and the 
amendments made by this Act.
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