H.R. 4087: District of Columbia Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employees Equity Act of 2005
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H.R. 4087: District of Columbia Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employees Equity Act of 2005
109th Congress · introduced 2005-10-19 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2005-10-19 · official record
- Who proposed it: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
District of Columbia Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employees Equity Act of 2005
Plain summary
District of Columbia Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employees Equity Act of 2005 - Entitles any individual serving as a federal or congressional employee or a Member of Congress who performed qualifying District of Columbia service (certain service as a D.C. court nonjudicial employee, certain service performed by an individual as an employee of an entity of the DC government whose functions were transferred to the Pretrial Services, Parole, Adult Supervision, and Offender Supervision Trustee under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and certain service performed by an individual as an employee of the DC Public Defender Service) to have such service included in calculating such individual's creditable service under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS), but only for purposes of specified sections of FERS. Requires the Office of Personnel Management to accept the certification of the appropriate personnel official of the government of the District of Columbia concerning whether an individual performed qualifying District of Columbia service and the length of the period of such service such individual performed.
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Official text
District of Columbia Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employees Equity Act of 2005
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] · 1 cosponsors
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Sponsor's campaign money: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] reported raising $53,775 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-109hr4087.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/109/hr>
Record fed-us-cong109-hr4087 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong109 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong109