Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/668

 95 STAT. 642

45 USC 231. 45 USC 23it.

45 USC 231a.

26 USC 3201 et
 * ^945 USC 231b.

Ante, p. 633.

PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981 (2) The amendments made by sections 1116(b)(1), 1118(c)(2), 1119(b)(5), 1119(c), 1119(h)(3), 1119(i)(3), 1120(a), 1120(d), 1121(c)(1), 1121(c)(2), 1123, and 1125 of this Act shall take effect January 1, 1975. (3) The first sentence added to section l(o) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 by section 1116(b)(2) shall take effect October 1, 1981, and shall apply only with respect to individuals who did not die before that date and who ceased rendering service as an employee under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 on or after Ocotber 1, 1975 or were on leave of absence or furlough on October 1, 1975. The second sentence added to section l(o) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 by section 1116(b)(2) shall take effect October 1, 1981. (c) The amendment made by section 1117(a) of this Act shall take effect October 1, 1981, and shall apply only with respect to individuals whose supplemental annuity closing date under section 2(b) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 before the effective date of the amendment to such section by this Act did not occur before October 1, 1981. (d) The amendments made by section 1119(b)(1) shall not apply with respect to annuities awarded on the basis of employee annuities awarded before October 1, 1981. (e)(1) The amendments made by sections 1118(e)(3), 1119(d)(2), 1119(h)(1), and 1119(h)(4) of this Act shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) The amendment made by section 1118(d) of this Act shall apply with respect to annuity increases which become effective on or after the date described in the next sentence. The date referred to in the last preceding sentence is the later of October 1, 1981 and the date (after July 1, 1981) on which there is an increase in the rate of any tax imposed under chapter 22 (relating to railroad retirement tax) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. For the purposes of the amendment made by section 1118(d), with respect to annuities awarded before October 1, 1981, the annuity portions computed under subsections (b) and (d) of section 3 of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 as in effect before October 1, 1981, shall be treated as a portion of an annuity computed under section 3(b) of such Act as amended by this Act. (3) The amendment made by section 1118(a) of this Act shall take effect on the later of October 1, 1981, and the date (after July 1, 1981) on which there is an increase in the rate of any tax imposed under chapter 22 (relating to railroad retirement tax) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and shall apply only with respect to annuities awarded on or after the date of that taking effect. (f) Section 4(g) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 as amended by this Act (except subdivisions (5) and (6) of such section 4(g)) shall take effect October 1, 1981, with respect to awards made on or after that date in cases in which the employee did not begin receiving an annuity under section 2(a)(l) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 before October 1, 1981, and did not die before that date, and to all awards made on or after October 1, 1986. In all other awards made on or after October 1, 1981, and before October 1, 1986, for purposes of determining the initial annuity amounts only, the provisions of section 4(g) of the Railroad Retirement Aqt of 1974, as in effect before amendment by this Act shall be applicable. Initial annuity amounts determined under the preceding sentence shall be increased only by the same percentage, or percentages, as an employee's annuity amount determined under section 3(b) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 is increased under section 3(g) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 on or after the date on which such initial annuity amount began to accrue. Annuity amounts determined under section 4(g) of

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