1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act”.
Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act
AN ACT
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, and air traffic controllers to make penalty-free withdrawals from governmental plans after age 50, and for other purposes.
2. Early retirement distributions to Federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, and air traffic controllers in governmental plans
by striking the period at the end and inserting “, or”;
by striking “means any employee” and inserting the following:
“(i) any employee”
by adding at the end the following new clause:
“(ii) any Federal law enforcement officer described in section 8331(20) or 8401(17) of title 5, United States Code, any Federal customs and border protection officer described in section 8331(31) or 8401(36) of such title, any Federal firefighter described in section 8331(21) or 8401(14) of such title, or any air traffic controller described in 8331(30) or 8401(35) of such title.”
Application to defined contribution plans— Section 72(t)(10)(A) of such Code is amended by striking “which is a defined benefit plan”.
Distributions not treated as modification of substantially equal payments— Section 72(t)(4)(A)(ii) of such Code is amended by inserting “or a distribution to which paragraph (10) applies” after “other than by reason of death or disability”.
Effective date— The amendments made by this section shall apply to distributions after December 31, 2015.
3. Budgetary effects
The budgetary effects of this Act shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.