To provide additional pension security for spouses and former spouses, and for other purposes.
Women's Pension Equity Act of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to develop a model: (1) spousal consent form when an election is made to waive a qualified joint and survivor annuity or a qualified preretirement survivor annuity; and (2) qualified domestic relations order.
Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to extend the payment of any portion of Tier II Railroad Retirement benefits to surviving former spouses pursuant to divorce agreements.
Amends Federal law to provide for a survivor annuity to widows, widowers, and certain former spouses of Federal employees who die after having separated from the service with title to a deferred annuity, but before attaining the age for such annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System, on the same basis as is currently provided to certain survivors of former Members of Congress.
Revises provisions concerning Federal retirement benefits subject to a court order.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Ways and Means
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Government Reform and Oversight, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Referred to House Government Reform
Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
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