[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2083 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2083

 For the relief of certain former employees of the United States whose 
 firefighting functions were transferred from the Department of Energy 
                   to Los Alamos County, New Mexico.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                  May 5 (legislative day, May 2), 1994

 Mr. Bingaman introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 For the relief of certain former employees of the United States whose 
 firefighting functions were transferred from the Department of Energy 
                   to Los Alamos County, New Mexico.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this Act is to facilitate the purchase of service 
credit, under the retirement system for employees of the State of New 
Mexico, by certain former employees of the United States who became 
employees of Los Alamos County, New Mexico, as a result of the transfer 
of certain firefighting functions from the Department of Energy to that 
county in 1989.

SEC. 2. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE MAKING OF PAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--In order to carry out the purpose of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Treasury (or his designee) and an individual 
designated by the Governor of New Mexico shall enter into an agreement, 
as soon as practicable, under which all individuals to or on behalf of 
whom any payments under this Act are to be made shall be identified, 
and the amount payable to or on behalf of each such individual (as well 
as the form and method for each such payment) shall be determined.
    (b) Limitation.--The amount payable under this Act to or on behalf 
of any particular individual may not exceed--
            (1) the total amount payable by the individual involved in 
        order to receive service credit, under the retirement system 
        referred to in section 1, for the period of service as a 
        firefighter rendered by such individual as an employee of the 
        Department of Energy; minus
            (2) the amount of the lump-sum credit (as defined by 
        applicable provisions of title 5, United States Code) paid to 
        such individual based on such individual's separation from the 
        Department of Energy (or, in the case of any individual whose 
        lump-sum credit also included amounts attributable to service 
        other than a firefighter under the Department of Energy, the 
        portion of the lump-sum credit attributable to service as such 
        a firefighter).

SEC. 3. PAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay, out of 
amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amounts 
determined under section 2 in accordance with the applicable terms of 
the agreement described in such section.
    (b) Restriction.--It shall be unlawful for any amount in excess of 
10 percent of any lump-sum payment payable under this Act to or on 
behalf of any individual to be paid to or received by any agent or 
attorney in consideration for services rendered in connection with such 
lump-sum payment. Any person who violates the preceding sentence shall 
be fined not more than $1,000.

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