[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 516 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 516

 To authorize, with respect to certain former employees of the United 
     States whose firefighting functions were transferred from the 
 Department of Energy to Los Alamos County, New Mexico, the payment of 
    the amounts needed by those individuals in order to qualify for 
benefits under the retirement system to which they became subject as a 
                        result of the transfer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 1995

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize, with respect to certain former employees of the United 
     States whose firefighting functions were transferred from the 
 Department of Energy to Los Alamos County, New Mexico, the payment of 
    the amounts needed by those individuals in order to qualify for 
benefits under the retirement system to which they became subject as a 
                        result of the transfer.

    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. AUTHORIZATION.

    (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--
            (1) all individuals on behalf of whom any amounts payable 
        under this Act shall be identified;
            (2) the amount payable on behalf of each such individual 
        under this Act shall be determined; and
            (3) any procedures necessary to carry out this Act shall be 
        established.
    (b) Limitation.--The amount payable on behalf of any individual 
under this Act may not exceed the amount by which--
            (1) the total amount payable by the individual 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; exceeds
            (2)(A) 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
            (B) in the case of any individual whose lump-sum credit (as 
        so defined) included amounts attributable to service other than 
        as a firefighter under the Department of Energy, the portion of 
        the lump-sum credit attributable to service as such a 
        firefighter.
    (c) Authorization.--There is authorized to be appropriated, out of 
amounts in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act.
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