[107th Congress Public Law 290]
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Public Law 107-290
107th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 To amend the District of Columbia Retirement Protection Act of 1997 to 
    permit the Secretary of the Treasury to use estimated amounts in 
   determining the service longevity component of the Federal benefit 
 payment required to be paid under such Act to certain retirees of the 
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. <<NOTE: Nov. 
                        7, 2002 -  [H.R. 5205]>> 

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

SECTION 1. PERMITTING USE OF ESTIMATED AMOUNTS IN DETERMINING SERVICE 
            LONGEVITY COMPONENT OF FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENTS TO 
            METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT RETIREES.

    Section 11012(e) of the District of Columbia Retirement Protection 
Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33; sec. 1-803.02(e), D.C. Official Code) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: ``The Secretary of the 
Treasury is authorized to estimate the additional compensation for 
service longevity for purposes of determining the amount of a Federal 
benefit payment for annuitants who retire on or after August 29, 1972, 
and on or before December 31, 2001, and to make Federal benefit payments 
based upon such estimates.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 1 shall take effect as if included in 
the enactment of title IX of division A of the Miscellaneous 
Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted by reference in section 1(a)(4) of 
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001).

    Approved November 7, 2002.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 5205:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 148 (2002):
            Oct. 10, considered and passed House.
            Oct. 17, considered and passed Seante.

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