[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1464 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                S. 1464

 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

                           December 11, 1995

 Mr. Domenici (for himself and 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 purchase service credit, under the 
retirement system for employees of the State of New Mexico, on behalf 
of 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 purposes 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 on behalf of whom 
any payments under this Act are to be made shall be identified, and the 
amount payable on behalf of each such individual, and the method of 
making such payment to the State of New Mexico, shall be determined.
    (b) Limitation.--The amount payable under this Act on behalf of any 
particular individual may not exceed the total amount that would have 
to be paid by the individual involved in order to receive service 
credit, under the retirement system referred to in section 1, for the 
periods of service as a firefighter rendered by such individual as an 
employee of the Department of Energy or its predecessor agencies, the 
Energy Research and Development Administration and the Atomic Energy 
Commission; minus--
            (1) 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 an individual whose 
        lump-sum credit also includes 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); and,
            (2) any other amounts paid to such individual, including 
        severance pay, as a result of such individual's separation from 
        the Department of Energy.

SEC. 3. PAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the 
State of New Mexico, 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 payment under this Act on behalf of any individual to 
be paid to or received by any agent or attorney in consideration of 
services rendered in connection with such payment. Any person who 
violates the preceding sentence shall be fined not more than $1,000.
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