U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Retirement Technical Corrections Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Corrects retirement eligibility for a narrow group of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers: people who received tentative CBP officer offers before July 6, 2008, but did not enter duty until on or after that date. For purposes of section 535(e) of the 2008 DHS appropriations law, those officers would be treated as if they were serving on July 6, 2008, making them eligible for the required minimum annuity amount and exempting them from the mandatory retirement rule that would otherwise apply under title 5.
Who Benefits and How
Eligible CBP officers and retirees in this pre-offer/post-start cohort benefit directly. Officers who have not retired can become eligible for immediate retirement with the corrected annuity treatment, and retirees can receive retroactive annuity adjustments from the Office of Personnel Management. The Department of Homeland Security can also retroactively waive maximum-entry-age issues where needed to make the correction work.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Homeland Security must identify every eligible officer within 120 days, notify them, and send the data OPM needs to make annuity corrections. OPM must process the corrections and issue implementation guidance with DHS. The Government Accountability Office must review CBP hiring practices, benefit-eligibility controls, personnel-file policies, and senior-executive training, then report to House and Senate oversight committees within 18 months. Federal retirement accounts bear the cost of higher or retroactive annuity payments.
Key Provisions
- Defines eligible individuals as CBP officers with tentative offers before July 6, 2008 who entered duty on or after that date.
- Treats those officers as serving on July 6, 2008 for the 2008 DHS appropriations retirement transition rule.
- Provides the minimum annuity amount and mandatory-retirement exemption tied to that transition rule.
- Requires DHS to create the eligible-officer list, notify affected officers, and transmit correction data to OPM within 120 days.
- Requires OPM to make annuity corrections, including retroactive adjustments for already retired eligible officers.
- Authorizes DHS to retroactively waive maximum-entry-age limits as needed and requires GAO to audit CBP retirement-benefit hiring controls.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Fixes a 2008 transition-rule gap for U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who accepted tentative offers before July 6, 2008 but entered duty later, giving them the same enhanced retirement treatment as officers already serving on that date.
Key Policy Areas
Federal Workforce, Homeland Security, Retirement Benefits
Primary Purpose
Fixes a 2008 transition-rule gap for U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who accepted tentative offers before July 6, 2008 but entered duty later, giving them the same enhanced retirement treatment as officers already serving on that date.
Policy Domains
Section 2 - CBP officer retirement transition correction
Identified Gains
- CBP officers with pre-July 2008 tentative offers
- Retired CBP officers in the eligible cohort
- CBP officers affected by maximum-entry-age issues
Identified Costs
- Department of Homeland Security
- Office of Personnel Management
- Government Accountability Office
- Federal retirement benefit accounts
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed SenateHeld at the desk.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR …
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by …
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. …
Reported by Mr. Paul, with an amendment
Passed Senate (inferred from es version)
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator …
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
CBP officers with pre-July 2008 offers who started on or after July 6, 2008, CBP officers with pre-July 2008 offers who started on/after July 6, 2008, Department of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security, Government Accountability Office, Office of Personnel Management face effects in multiple directions
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "cbp"
- → U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- "director"
- → Director of the Office of Personnel Management
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "comptroller_general"
- → Comptroller General of the United States
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A person who received a tentative offer as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer before July 6, 2008 and entered duty as a CBP officer on or after that date.
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