An Act to authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to enter into agreements with teachers and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia for the purchase of annuity contracts
PL 92-281 (H.R.9395), enacted 04/26/1972

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PUBLIC LAW 9 2 - 2 8 1 - A P R . 26, 1972 
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SEC. 5. The compact administrator, subject to the approval of the 
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Commissioner or his designated agent, may make or arrange for any 
payments necessary to discharge any financial obligations imposed 
upon the District of Columbia by the compact or by any supplementary 
agreement entered into thereunder. 
SEC. 6. The compact administrator is hereby directed to consult with i^^J°s°^^'^ trans-
the immediate family of any proposed transferee and, in the case of 
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a proposed transferee from an institution in the District of Columbia 
to an institution in a party State, to take no final action without 
approval of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 7. Duly authorized copies of this Act shall, upon its approval, di^°Hbuaon^'^*' 
be transmitted by the Commissioner or his designated agent to the 
Governor of each State, the Attorney General and the Administrator 
of General Services of the United States, and the Council of State 
Governments. 
Approved April 26, 1972. 
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Public Law 92-281 
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AN ACT 
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April 2 6 , 1972 
To authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to enter into agree- 
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ments with teachers and other employees of the Board of Education of the 
District of Columbia for the purchase of annuitj' contracts. 
D.C. teachers. 
Tax-sheltered 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Represe^itatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) notwith-
standing the provisions of section 1 of the District of Columbia Teach- annuuy program 
ers' Salary Act of 1955 (D.C. Code, sec. 31-1501), and of any other g/staf^ass^^' 
law, or regulation affecting the salary of teachers or school officers 
employed in the service of the public schools of the District of Colum- 
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bia, the Commissioner of the District of Columbia 
(hereinafter 
referred to as the "Commissioner") is authorized to enter into an 
agreement with a teacher or school officer to reduce the salary of that 
teacher or school officer by an amount requested by that teacher or 
school officer, and to contribute that amount for the purchase of an 
annuity contract described in section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1954 (relating to the taxability of beneficiaries of annuity 
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plans) for that teacher or school officiaL 
(b) The reduction in salary effected under an agreement author-
ized by this Act shall not be considered in computing the salary for 
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any teacher or school officer for any other purpose including, but not 
limited to, the determination of benefits or contributions under 
chapters 81 (relating to workmen's compensation) and 87 (relating 
to life insurance) of title 5 of the United States Code. 
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SEC. 2. The Commissioner shall prescribe such regulations as he 
Regulations. 
deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 3. For the purposes of this Act, the term "teacher or school schJoromceT." 
officer" includes all teachers, school officers, and other employees of 
the Board of Education of the District of Columbia who receive com-
pensation according to the salary schedules under section 1 of the 
District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955, and to whom the 
provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of public 
school teachers in the District of Columbia", approved August 7, 1946 
(D.C. Code, sec. 31-721 et seq.) are applicable. 
so stat. 875; 
SEC. 4. This Act shall apply with respect to any pay period of any ^'E^fec'tive^date 
teacher or school officer beginning on or after the one hundred and 
eightieth day after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved April 26, 1972.