To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Members must complete 12 years of creditable service in order to be vested in an annuity under the Federal Employees' Retirement System, and for other purposes.

Requires Members of Congress to complete at least 12 years of creditable service in order to be vested in an annuity under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS).

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2357 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2357

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Members must 
  complete 12 years of creditable service in order to be vested in an 
 annuity under the Federal Employees' Retirement System, and for other 
                               purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2013

  Mr. Coble introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, 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

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Members must 
  complete 12 years of creditable service in order to be vested in an 
 annuity under the Federal Employees' Retirement System, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO FERS ANNUITY FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

    (a) In General.--Section 8410 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``or Member'' and inserting after ``8411'' the 
following: ``, and a Member must complete at least 12 years of such 
service creditable under such section,''.
    (b) Immediate Retirement.--Section 8412 of such title is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``or Member'' and by 
        adding at the end the following: ``A Member who is separated 
        from the service after becoming 62 years of age and completing 
        12 years of service is entitled to an annuity.''; and
            (2) in subsection (g), by striking ``or Member'' each place 
        it appears.
    (c) Deferred Retirement.--Section 8413 of such title is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``or Member'' each place 
        it appears and by adding at the end the following: ``A Member 
        who is separated from the service, or transferred to a position 
        in which the Member does not continue subject to this chapter, 
        after completing 12 years of service is entitled to an annuity 
        beginning at the age of 62 years.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``or Member'' each place 
        it appears.
    (d) Computation of Annuity.--Section 8415 of such title is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``5 years'' and 
        inserting ``12 years''; and
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``or Member'' and 
        inserting the following: ``, or 12 years of service as a 
        Member,''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--The amendments made by section 1 shall take effect 
on the first day of the 114th Congress, but shall not apply to an 
individual who served as a Member at any time before such first day.
    (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term ``Member'' 
has the meaning given such term in section 8401(20) of title 5, United 
States Code.
                                 <all>