119-hr4195

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4195 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4195

 To modify the voluntary retirement requirements for members of the 
 Foreign Service, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 26, 2025

 Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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

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 A BILL

 To modify the voluntary retirement requirements for members of the 
 Foreign Service, 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 Foreign Service Voluntary Early 
Retirement Authority Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION TO VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR MEMBERS 
 OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--

Section 811 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 
U.S.C. 4051) is amended--

    (1) by striking ``Any participant who is at least'' and 
 inserting ``

    (a) Any participant who is at least''; and

    (2) by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (b) Any participant (as that term is defined in 

section 853) who 
is not entitled to an annuity under subsection

    (a) of this section, or 

section 609

    (a)

    (2)
        (B) or 808 of this Act, and who is at least 43 years 
of age and has completed at least 15 years of creditable service and 
who is separated from the Foreign Service or any other agency utilizing 
the Foreign Service personnel system during a period in which, as 
determined by the Office of Personnel Management (upon request of the 
Foreign Service or such other agency), under regulations prescribed by 
the Office, that--
 ``

    (1) the Foreign Service or other such agency (or if 
 applicable, the component in which the employee is serving) is 
 undergoing substantial delayering, substantial reorganization, 
 substantial reductions in force, substantial transfer of 
 function, or other substantial workforce restructuring (or 
 shaping);
 ``

    (2) a significant percentage of employees servicing in 
 the Foreign Service or other such agency (or component) are 
 likely to be separated or subject to an immediate reduction in 
 the rate of basic pay (without regard to subchapter VI of 
 chapter 53, or comparable provisions); or
 ``

    (3) identified as being in positions which are becoming 
 surplus or excess to the Foreign Service's or other such 
 agency's future ability to carry out its mission effectively,
shall be entitled to, on the participant's application and with the 
consent of the Secretary or the head of such other agency, be retired 
from the Service or other such agency and entitled to an annuity. Such 
annuity shall be computed in the same manner as an annuity for an 
employee under 

section 8415

    (e) of title 5, United States Code.''.

    (b) Application.--

    (1) In general.--This Act and the amendments made by this 
 Act shall apply to individuals involuntarily or voluntarily 
 separated from the Foreign Service during the period beginning 
 on January 20, 2025, and ending on the date of enactment of 
 this Act, and to individuals voluntarily separated from the 
 Foreign Service after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
 subject to the terms and conditions of subsection

    (b) of 
 

section 811 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 
 4051), as added by subsection

    (a)

    (2) of this Act.

    (2) Funding.--If amounts in the Foreign Service Retirement 
 and Disability Fund are inadequate to pay benefits payable 
 under such subsection

    (b) , amounts in the general fund of the 
 Treasury not otherwise appropriated may be used to pay for such 
 benefits.
            (c) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress that any 
individual who receives an annuity under subsection

    (b) of 

section 811 
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4051), as added by 
subsection

    (a)

    (2) of this Act, shall be eligible to retain health care 
benefits under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program if such 
individual was enrolled in such Program on the date of separation.
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