[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2227 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2227

  To clarify the effective date of the modification of treatment for 
retirement annuity purposes of part-time service before April 7, 1986, 
  of certain Department of Veterans Affairs health-care professionals.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 23, 2002

Mr. Rockefeller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify the effective date of the modification of treatment for 
retirement annuity purposes of part-time service before April 7, 1986, 
  of certain Department of Veterans Affairs health-care professionals.

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

SECTION 1. EFFECTIVE DATE OF MODIFICATION OF TREATMENT FOR RETIREMENT 
              ANNUITY PURPOSES OF CERTAIN PART-TIME SERVICE OF CERTAIN 
              DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS.

    (a) Effective Date.--The effective date of the amendment made by 
section 132 of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs 
Enhancement Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-135; 115 Stat. 2454) shall be 
as follows:
            (1) January 23, 2002, in the case of health care 
        professionals referred to in subsection (c) of section 7426 of 
        title 38, United States Code (as so amended), who retire on or 
        after that date.
            (2) The date of the enactment of this Act, in the case of 
        health care professionals referred to in such subsection (c) 
        who retired before January 23, 2002, but after April 7, 1986.
    (b) Recomputation of Annuity.--The Office of Personnel Management 
shall recompute the annuity of each health-care professional described 
in the first sentence of subsection (c) of section 7426 of title 38, 
United States Code (as so amended), who retired before January 23, 
2002, but after April 7, 1986, in order to take into account the 
amendment made by section 132 of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001. Such recomputation shall 
be effective only with respect to annuities paid after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and shall apply beginning the first day of the 
first month beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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