[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5205 Received in Senate (RDS)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 5205


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 15, 2002

                                Received

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend the District of Columbia Retirement Protection Act of 1997 to 
   permit the Secretary of the Treasury to use estimated amounts in 
  determining the service longevity component of the Federal benefit 
 payment required to be paid under such Act to certain retirees of the 
      Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.

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

SECTION 1. PERMITTING USE OF ESTIMATED AMOUNTS IN DETERMINING SERVICE 
              LONGEVITY COMPONENT OF FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENTS TO 
              METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT RETIREES.

    Section 11012(e) of the District of Columbia Retirement Protection 
Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33; sec. 1-803.02(e), D.C. Official Code) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: ``The Secretary of the 
Treasury is authorized to estimate the additional compensation for 
service longevity for purposes of determining the amount of a Federal 
benefit payment for annuitants who retire on or after August 29, 1972, 
and on or before December 31, 2001, and to make Federal benefit 
payments based upon such estimates.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall take effect as if included in 
the enactment of title IX of division A of the Miscellaneous 
Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted by reference in section 1(a)(4) of 
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001).

            Passed the House of Representatives October 10, 2002.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.