Retirees to Rail Act

Bill: 117-hr-8608
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1]
Introduced: 2022-07-29
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Latest action: action_date: 2022-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-07-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Retirees to Rail Act </b></p> <p>This bill temporarily suspends certain provisions related to annuity eligibility requirements for retired railroad employees and their survivors.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill temporarily permits retired railroad employees and their survivors to render compensated services to an employer without a suspension or deduction of the retired railroad employee's retirement annuity.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8608 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 29, 2022 Mr. Crawford introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To temporarily suspend non-payment provisions and deduction provisions for certain former railroad employees, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Retirees to Rail Act . 2. Continued annuity payment provisions (a) Temporary suspension of non-Payment provisions Subsections (e)(3) and (g)(1) of section 2 of the Railroad Retirement Act ( 45 U.S.C. 231a ) shall not apply beginning on the first day of the month of the date of enactment of this Act and ending on the last day of the month 30 days after the date on which the reporting of employment information in Item 8 of Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service—Railroad Reporting, EP 770 (Sub-No. 1), at 7 (STB served May 6, 2022) expires. (b) Temporary suspension of deduction provisions Subsection (f)(6) of section 2 of the Railroad Retirement Act ( 45 U.S.C. 231a ) shall not apply based on the compensation received by an individual or spouse from compensated service rendered to an employer pursuant to the temporary suspension of subsections (e)(3) and (g)(1) of section 2 of the Railroad Retirement Act ( 45 U.S.C. 231a ), as provided in section 2(a) of this Act.