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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · H.R. 470 (Introduced in House) — To withhold the salaries of Members of Congress upon failure to agree to a budget resolution, and for other purposes. · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Making FERS optional for Members

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Section 8401(20) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking , and who (in the case and all that follows through 2004 . The amendment made by paragraph
(1)shall apply with respect to an individual who first serves as a Member of the House of Representatives, including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress, on or after the date of enactment of this Act. Section 8401(20) of title 5, United States Code, as amended by subsection (a), is further amended— by striking term and inserting the following: “term ‘Member’— Member has has ; by inserting , subject to subparagraph (B), after except that ; by adding and after the semicolon at the end; and by adding at the end the following: for purposes of subchapter III, has the same meaning as provided in section 2106, without regard to whether the individual elects not to participate in the Federal Employees' Retirement System; . Section 8431(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting except as provided in section 8401(20)(B), after subchapter, . The amendments made by this subsection shall apply with respect to an individual who makes an election described in section 8401(20) of title 5, United States Code, not to participate in the Federal Employees' Retirement System before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.
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