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    <item congress="119" measure-type="s" measure-number="26" measure-id="id119s26" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2025-01-07" update-date="2025-04-14">
        <title>A bill to exclude locality adjustments from average pay for purposes of computing the amount of retirement annuities of new employees.</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119s26v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-04-14">
            <action-date>2025-01-07</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p>This bill excludes locality-based comparability payments from the calculation of retirement and disability annuities for new employees in the Federal Employees’ Retirement System. (General schedule and certain other federal employees receive locality-based comparability payments when their official worksite is located in a geographic area with a pay disparity between federal and non-federal workers of more than 5%.)</p>]]></summary-text>
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