Title: Retired Civil Servant Military Service Restoration Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Retired Civil Servant Military Service Restoration Act
This bill allows an employee or Member of Congress who has performed military service and who retires on or after September 8, 1982, to make the deposit required for crediting such service under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) at any time before or after the date of separation on which the entitlement to an annuity under CSRS is based.
Such a deposit made after separation, and the annuity or lump-sum payable after such deposit, is required to include computed interest.
The retirement counselor training program is revised to promote fully informed retirement decisions in the case of employees and Members who served in the Armed Forces regarding the crediting of military service.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1839 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1839

To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the timing of deposits 
    relating to the Civil Service Retirement System with respect to 
          crediting military service, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2017

 Mr. O'Rourke 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 clarify the timing of deposits 
    relating to the Civil Service Retirement System with respect to 
          crediting military service, 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 ``Retired Civil Servant Military 
Service Restoration Act''.

SEC. 2. RETROACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE DEPOSIT UNDER CIVIL SERVICE 
              RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

    (a) Timing of Deposit.--
            (1) In general.--Section 8334(j) of title 5, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(6)(A) A deposit described under paragraph (1) may be made by an 
employee or Member at any time before or after the date of separation 
on which the entitlement to any annuity under this subchapter is based.
    ``(B) With respect to a deposit made after such date pursuant to 
subparagraph (A)--
            ``(i) the deposit shall include interest computed in 
        accordance with subsection (e); and
            ``(ii) the annuity or lump-sum payable after such deposit 
        is made shall include interest computed in accordance with this 
        subchapter.''.
            (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
        shall apply with respect to any employee or Member (as such 
        terms are defined in section 8331 of title 5, United States 
        Code) who retires on or after September 8, 1982.
    (b) Retirement Counseling.--Paragraph (1) of section 8350(c) of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(1) The training program established under subsection (b) of this 
section shall--
            ``(A) provide for comprehensive training in the provisions 
        and administration of this subchapter and chapter 84 of this 
        title;
            ``(B) shall be designed to promote fully informed 
        retirement decisions by employees and Members under this 
        subchapter and individuals subject to chapter 84 of this title, 
        including, in the case of employees and Members who served in 
        the Armed Forces, decisions regarding the crediting of military 
        service pursuant to sections 8332 and 8334 of this title; and
            ``(C) shall be revised as necessary to assure that the 
        information furnished to retirement counselors of agencies 
        under the program is current.''.
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