Title: Federal Employee Pension Fairness Act of 2017
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federal Employee Pension Fairness Act of 2017
This bill repeals provisions requiring federal employees, including foreign service employees, who began service after 2012 to pay an increased contribution (4.4%, up from 0.8%) toward funding their annuities under the Federal Employees Retirement System.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3269 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3269

  To repeal the revised annuity employee and further revised annuity 
employee categories within the Federal Employees Retirement System, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2017

  Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Mr. Cummings, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. 
 Evans, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. Lee, 
Mr. Lynch, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Norton, Mr. Peterson, Mr. 
Raskin, Mr. Serrano, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Veasey, Mrs. Watson Coleman, 
  Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Pocan, and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To repeal the revised annuity employee and further revised annuity 
employee categories within 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 Employee Pension Fairness 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF FERS REVISED AND FURTHER REVISED ANNUITANT 
              CATEGORIES.

    (a) Repeal of Annuity Computation.--Section 8415 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking subsection (d).
    (b) Repeal of Annuitant Categories.--Section 8422(a)(3) of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``other than revised annuity employees or 
        further revised annuity employees''; and
            (2) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C).
    (c) Repeal of Government Contributions.--Section 8423(a) of title 
5, United States Code, is amended by striking paragraph (2) and 
inserting the following:
            ``(2) In determining any normal-cost percentage to be 
        applied under this subsection, amounts provided for under 
        section 8422 shall be taken into account.''.
    (d) Conforming Amendments.--Section 8401 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (35)(B), by striking the semi-colon at the 
        end and inserting ``; and'';
            (2) in paragraph (36), by striking ``; and'' at the end and 
        inserting a period; and
            (3) by striking paragraphs (37) and (38).
    (e) Application.--
            (1) In general.--The amendments made by this section shall 
        apply on the first day of the first pay period beginning after 
        the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Treatment of former revised or further revised 
        annuitants.--Any individual who, as of the date of enactment of 
        this Act, was a revised annuity employee or a further revised 
        annuity employee (but for the amendments made by this section) 
        shall be deemed to be an employee or Member (as those terms are 
        defined in section 8401 of title 5, United States Code) for 
        purposes of chapter 84 of such title.

SEC. 3. REPEAL OF FOREIGN SERVICE REVISED OR FURTHER REVISED ANNUITY 
              PARTICIPANT CATEGORIES.

    (a) Repeal of Annuitant Categories.--Section 856(a) of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4071e(a)) is amended by striking 
paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
    ``(2) The applicable percentage for a participant other than a 
revised annuity participant or a further revised annuity participant 
shall be as follows:


``7.5...............................  Before January 1, 1999.
7.75................................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
7.9.................................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
7.55................................  After January 11, 2003.''.
 

    (b) Government Contribution.--Section 857 of the Foreign Service 
Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4071f) is amended by striking subsection (c).
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--Section 852 of such Act is amended (22 
U.S.C. 4071a)--
            (1) by striking paragraphs (7) and (8); and
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (9), (10), and (11) as 
        paragraphs (7), (8), and (9), respectively.
    (d) Application.--
            (1) In general.--The amendments made by this section shall 
        apply on the first day of the first pay period beginning after 
        the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Treatment of former revised or further revised 
        annuitants.--Any individual who, as of the date of enactment of 
        this Act, was a revised annuity participant or a further 
        revised annuity participant (but for the amendments made by 
        this section) shall be deemed to be a participant (as that term 
        is defined in section 852 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
        (22 U.S.C. 4071a)) for purposes of the Foreign Service pension 
        system.
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