[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 28, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S4669]
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  SA 4914. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him to the bill S. 2328, to reauthorize and amend the 
National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 38, strike line 24 and insert the following:
     pension systems to ensure payment of retirement benefits 
     accrued as of the effective date of this Act (to the extent 
     such benefits do not exceed the maximum guarantee which would 
     apply with respect to the participant under section 4022 of 
     the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 
     U.S.C. 1322) if title IV of such Act applied to the 
     participant's plan), treat participant contributions to any 
     trust administered by the territory or any instrumentality 
     thereof as the property of the contributor, and ensure that 
     funding is pledged for each fiscal year sufficient to satisfy 
     the lawful claims of participants to their contributions;
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