[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2722 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2722

To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 with respect 
    to State and local firefighters, law enforcement officers, and 
   incumbent elected judges; and to amend the Age Discrimination in 
 Employment Amendments of 1986 to prevent the repeal of the exemption 
 for certain bona fide hiring and retirement plans applicable to State 
          and local firefighters and law enforcement officers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 1993

 Mr. Owens (for himself and Mr. Murphy) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 with respect 
    to State and local firefighters, law enforcement officers, and 
   incumbent elected judges; and to amend the Age Discrimination in 
 Employment Amendments of 1986 to prevent the repeal of the exemption 
 for certain bona fide hiring and retirement plans applicable to State 
          and local firefighters and law enforcement officers.

    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 ``Age Discrimination in Employment 
Amendments of 1993''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) State and Local Firefighters and Law Enforcement Officers.--
Section 4(j)(1) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 
U.S.C. 623(j)(1)) is amended by striking ``attained the age'' and all 
that follows through ``1983, and'', and inserting the following:
        ``attained--
                    ``(A) the age of hiring and retirement in effect 
                under applicable State or local law on March 3, 1983; 
                or
                    ``(B) if such age was not in effect under 
                applicable State or local law on March 3, 1983, 55 
                years of age; and''.
    (b) Elected State and Local Judges.--The second sentence of section 
11(f) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. 
630(f)) is amended by inserting the following before the period at the 
end: ``and shall not include with respect to retirement an elected 
judge before the expiration of the term of office in which such judge 
attains the age of compulsory retirement''.

SEC. 3. REPEALER.

    Section 3(b) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 
1986 (29 U.S.C. 623 note) is repealed.

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