An Act provide specific authority for Federal payments of the employer's share of the cost of retirement systems for civilian employees of the National Guard and to extend the authority for withholding employee contributions to State retirement systems by permitting deductions of employees' contributions to State-sponsored plans providing retirement disability or death benefits
PL 87-224 (H.R.4785), enacted 09/13/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87-224-SEPT. 13, 1961 
[75 ST AT 
September 13, 1961 
[H. R. 47^5] 
National Guard. 
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70A Stat. 614. 
Public Law 87-224 
AN ACT 
To provide specific authority for Federal payments of the employer's share of 
the cost of retirement systems for civilian employees of the National Guard 
and to extend the authority for withholding employee contributions to State 
retirement systems by permitting deductions of employees' contributions to 
State-sponsored plans providing retirement disability or death benefits. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of 
June 15,1956 (ch. 390, 70 Stat. 283; 5 U.S.C. 84d), is amended to read 
as follows: 
"Where— 
"(1) the law of any State or territory or Puerto Eico provides 
for the payment of employee contributions to employee retirement 
systems of such State or territory or Puerto Eico or to any plan 
sponsored by such State or territory or Puerto Eico providing 
retirement, disability, or death benefits, by withholding sums 
from the compensation of employees of such State or territory or 
Puerto Eico, and making returns of such sums to the authorities 
of such State or territory or Puerto Eico, or to the person or 
organization designated by such authorities to receive sums with-
held for such program; and 
"(2) civilian employees of the Army National Guard and the 
Air National Guard, other than those employed by the National 
Guard Bureau, are eligible for membership in an employee retire-
ment system of a State or territory or Puerto Eico or other plan 
sponsored by the State or territory or Puerto Eico, then the Secre-
tary of Defense, pursuant to such regulation as may be promul-
gated by the President, is authorized and directed to enter into 
an agreement with such State or territory or Puerto Eico within 
one hundred and twenty days of the request for agreement from 
the proper official of such State or territory or Puerto Eico. Sjtich 
agreement shall provide that the Department of Defense sKall 
comply with the requirements of such law in the case of employees 
subject to this Act who are eligible for membership in retirement 
system for employees of a State or territory or Puerto Eico, and 
the disbursing officers paying such employees shall withhold and 
pay over to such retirement system or to the person or organiza-
tion designated by the authorities of such State or territory or 
Puerto Eico to receive sums withheld for such purposes from the 
employee contributions for such employees." 
SEC. 2. Section 709(f) of title 32, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following: "Compensation authorized 
under this section may include the amounts of the employer's contri-
butions to retirement systems. 
Such contributions shall not exceed 
614 per centum of the compensation on which such contributions are 
based." 
Approved September 13, 19B1.