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S. 1515, United States Secret Service Retirement Act of 2012 1 (August 1, 2012)

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August 1, 2012
S. 1515
United States Secret Service Retirement Act of 2012
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs on May 16, 2012
SUMMARY
S. 1515 would permit certain current employees of the U.S. Secret Service hired between
January 1, 1984, and December 31, 1986, to move from the Federal Employees
Retirement System (FERS) to the District of Columbia Police and Firefighter Retirement
and Disability System (D.C. system). The bill would require that agents who elect to
change systems pay for the additional retirement benefits provided under the D.C. system
over the next 11 years (referred to in the bill as transition costs). This bill also would
require Secret Service agents who choose to be covered under the D.C. system to forfeit
all contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) made on their behalf by the Secret
Service or any other agencies.
Pay-as-you-go procedures apply because enacting the legislation would affect direct
spending and revenues.
CBO estimates that enacting S. 1515 would, on net, generate an insignificant amount of
budgetary savings over the 2013-2022 period. Increased direct spending resulting from
the additional retirement benefits under the D.C. system would total $7 million over the
10-year period, but those costs would be offset by the payment in 2013 of transition costs
by employees who switch retirement plans. Such employees would also convert from
contributing to FERS (which would reduce revenues), to contributing to the D.C. system
(which would increase offsetting receipts by a similar amount).
Because 5. 1515 would require the District of Columbia to determine the cost for some
members of the Secret Service to switch to the D.C. system, the bill would impose an
intergovernmental mandate as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA).
CBO estimates that the cost of the mandate would be minimal and would not exceed the

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