[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 272 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 272

    To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide civil service 
   retirement credit to a Federal employee for any period of service 
  performed with the American Red Cross abroad during a period of war.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 1995

  Mr. Jacobs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide civil service 
   retirement credit to a Federal employee for any period of service 
  performed with the American Red Cross abroad during a period of war.

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

SECTION 1. CREDITABILITY OF SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Section 8332 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(o) Any employee who, during a period of war as defined by 
section 1101 of title 38, leaves such employee's position to serve with 
the American Red Cross abroad shall, if such employee subsequently 
becomes employed or reemployed in a position subject to this 
subchapter, be allowed credit (as civilian service) for any such 
service abroad during such period.''.
    (b) Deductions and Deposits.--Section 8334(g)(6) of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ``section 8332(l)'' and inserting 
``subsection (l) or (o) of section 8332''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.

    (a) Effective Date.--This Act and the amendments made by this Act 
shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Applicability.--Subject to subsection (c), the amendments made 
by this Act shall apply with respect to annuities which commence 
before, on, or after the effective date of this Act, except that no 
monetary benefit by reason of such amendments shall accrue for any 
period before such effective date.
    (c) Recomputations.--
            (1) Application requirement.--An annuity or survivor 
        annuity based on the service of an employee who performed 
        service described in section 8332(o) of title 5, United States 
        Code, as added by section 1, shall, upon application to the 
        Office of Personnel Management, be recomputed in accordance 
        with such section 8332(o).
            (2) Effective date of recomputed annuity.--Any 
        recomputation of an annuity under paragraph (1) shall apply 
        with respect to months beginning more than 30 days after the 
        date on which application for such recomputation is received by 
        the Office.
    (d) Notification and Assistance to Eligible Individuals.--
            (1) Notification.--The Office of Personnel Management shall 
        take such action as may be necessary and appropriate to inform 
        individuals entitled to have any service credited under section 
        8332(o) of title 5, United States Code, as added by section 1, 
        or to have any annuity recomputed under subsection (c), of 
        their entitlement to such credit or recomputation.
            (2) Assistance by opm.--The Office shall, on request, 
        assist any individual referred to in paragraph (1) in obtaining 
        from any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the 
        United States such information possessed by such 
        instrumentality as may be necessary to verify the entitlement 
        of such individual to have any service credited under such 
        section 8332(o) or to have any annuity recomputed under 
        subsection (c).
            (3) Assistance by other agencies.--Any department, agency, 
        or other instrumentality of the United States which possesses 
        any information with respect to any service performed by any 
        individual as described in such section 8332(o) shall, at the 
        request of the Office, furnish such information to the Office.
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