[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 972 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 972

  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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2003

  Ms. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Ms. Lee, Mr. 
  Brown of Ohio, Ms. Millender-McDonald, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Serrano, Mr. 
 Dingell, Mr. Rodriguez, Mr. Payne, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. 
   McGovern, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Frost, Mr. Sanders, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. 
     Menendez, Mr. Kind, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. 
   Strickland, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Owens, and Mr. Farr) introduced the 
   following bill; which was 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 
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 and in the case of health 
care professionals referred to in such subsection (c) who retired 
before such date, 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 with respect to annuities paid for months after January 
23, 2002.
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