Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/912

 93 STAT. 880

PUBLIC LAW 96-122-NOV. 17, 1979

(c)(1) On the basis of the most recent determinations made under subsection (a)(4), the Board shall— (A) not later than March 15 of each year through calendar year 2003, submit to the President and to the Congress a request for appropriation of the Federal payment for the next fiscal year for each Fund; and (B) not less than thirty days prior to the date on which the Mayor is required to submit the annual budget for the government of the District of Columbia to the Council under section 442(a) of the District of Columbia Self-Government and GovernD.C. Code mental Reorganization Act, certify to the Mayor and the Council ^'^~^^^the amount of the District payment for each Fund. (2) The Mayor, in preparing each annual budget for the District of Columbia pursuant to section 442(a) of the District of Columbia SelfGovernment and Governmental Reorganization Act, and the Council of the District of Columbia, in adopting each annual budget in D.C. Code accordance with section 446 of such Act, shall include in such budget 47-224. jjQ^ jggg than the full amount certified by the Board under paragraph (1)(B) as being the amount of the District payment for the next fiscal Recommendations, year for each Fund. The Mayor and the Council may comment and make recommendations concerning any such amount certified by the Board. (d)(1) Whenever any change in benefits under a retirement program is made, the Mayor shall engage an enrolled actuary, who may be the enrolled actuary engaged pursuant to section 162(a)(4)(A), to estimate the effect of such change in benefits over the next five fiscal years on (A) the net normal cost percentage with respect to the retirement program, (B) the accrued actuarial liability with respect to the retirement program, (C) the net pay-as-you-go cost with respect to the retirement program, and (D) the level of the District payments to the Fund. The Mayor shall transmit the estimates of the actuary under the preceding sentence to the Board and to the Speaker and the President pro tempore, and such change in benefits may not go into effect until the end of the thirty-day period beginning on the date such transmittals are completed. (2) In the event a change in benefits under a retirement program is made that increases the present value of benefits payable from the Fund, a level amortization payment for a period not to exceed twenty-five years shall be paid by the District to the Fund such that the present value of the sum of such level amortization payments equals the increase in the present value of such benefits. Such payments shall be made in addition to any other payment to the Fund required to be made by the District, and such increase in present value of benefits payable from the Fund and such payments shall be disregarded in calculating the unfunded actuarial liability under subsection (b)(l)(A). (e) Whenever the amount authorized to be appropriated to the District of Columbia Police Officers and Fire Fighters' Retirement Fund for any fiscal year under section 144(a)(1) is reduced under section 145(c), the District shall, beginning with the next fiscal year, pay a level amortization payment to such Fund for a period not to exceed ten years such that the present value (determined as of the beginning of the fiscal year for which such authorization is reduced) of the sum of such level amortization payments equals the amount of such reduction. Such payments shall be made in addition to any other payment to such Fund required to be made by the District and shall be disregarded in calculating the unfunded actuarial liability under subsection (b)(1)(A),

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