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Federal Retirement Fairness Act

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that civilian service in a temporary position after December 31, 1988, may be creditable service under the Federal Employees Retirement System, and for other purposes.

Introduced Feb 24, 2025

Latest action (Jul 22, 2025) ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Ms. Randall asked unanimous consent that she may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1522, a bill originally introduced by Representative Connolly, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Legislative subjects (2)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel managementTemporary and part-time employment

Summary

This bill would amend federal retirement law to allow civilian temporary employment service after December 31, 1988 to count as creditable service under the Federal Employees Retirement System, removing a previous date restriction. Currently, only temporary federal service performed before January 1, 1989 could be credited toward retirement benefits; this change would extend that eligibility to temporary service performed after that date. The amendment would apply to current federal employees, including temporary USPS employees and Members of Congress. The Office of Personnel Management would notify agencies and employees about their eligibility to make deposits for previously uncredited temporary service. OPM would issue regulations to implement the changes.

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Sponsor (1)
158 cosponsors

Actions (3)
  1. Jul 22, 2025 ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Ms. Randall asked unanimous consent that she may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1522, a bill originally introduced by Representative Connolly, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection. · house
  2. Feb 24, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  3. Feb 24, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 24, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 24, 2025

Mr. Connolly (for himself, Mr. Valadao, Ms. Budzinski, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mrs. Ramirez, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Norton, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mrs. Kim, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Swalwell, Mr. Amo, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mr. Casar, Ms. Brownley, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Schneider, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Tonko, and Mr. Neguse) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that civilian service in a temporary position after December 31, 1988, may be creditable service 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. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Federal Retirement Fairness Act”.

SEC. 2. CREDITABLE SERVICE FOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES SERVING AFTER 1988.

(a) In General.—Section 8411(3) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking “performed before January 1, 1989,”.

(b) Application.—The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to any individual who is an employee (as that term is defined in paragraph (11) of section 8401 of title 5, United States Code), including temporary employees of the United States Postal Service, or a Member (as that term is defined in paragraph (20) of such section) on or after the date of enactment of this Act.

(c) Notification.—The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall notify agency Chief Human Capital Officers or other appropriate agency officials for purposes of providing notice to employees and Members who are eligible to make a deposit for service by operation of the amendment made by subsection (a).

(d) Regulations.—The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall promulgate regulations to carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act. <all>

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