AMENDMENT TO FUND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT (Service and Institutional Shares)

Exhibit (h)(17)(i)

AMENDMENT TO FUND PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

(Service and Institutional Shares)

This Amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Fund Participation Agreement between Janus Aspen Series (the “Trust”) and Protective Life Annuity Insurance Company (the “Company”) is entered into as of May 1, 2022.

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Trust and the Company are parties to a Fund Participation Agreement dated November 15, 2020, as amended (the “Agreement”);

WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Agreement to redefine “Shares” in the Agreement and to add new separate account(s) to the Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the parties wish to amend Schedule A and Schedule B to the Agreement as set forth below.

AMENDMENT

NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties agree to amend the Agreement as follows:

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All references to “Shares” in the Agreement shall mean Service Shares and

Institutional Shares of each of the Portfolios.

2.

Schedule A to the Agreement shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the amended Schedule A attached hereto.

3.

Schedule B to the Agreement shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the amended Schedule B attached hereto.

The Agreement, as supplemented by this Amendment, is ratified and confirmed.

This Amendment may be executed simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be executed in either original or electronically transmitted form (e.g., facsimile or emailed portable document format (PDF)), and the parties hereby adopt as original any signatures received via electronically transmitted form.  Facsimile or electronic signatures will have the same legal effect as original signatures.                 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused their duly authorized officers to execute this Amendment as of the date and year first above written.

JANUS ASPEN SERIES	PROTECTIVE LIFE AND ANNUITY INSURANCE COMPANY
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx	By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:   Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx	Name:  Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:     Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer	Title:  Chief Product Officer,  Retirement  Division

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Schedule A

Separate Accounts and Associated Contracts

Name of Separate Account	Contracts Funded by Separate Account
Protective NY COLI PPVUL	NY Exec Ben PPVUL SA
Protective NY COLI VUL	NY Exec Ben RegVUL SA
Variable Annuity Account A of Protective Life	Protective Investors Benefit Advisory Variable Annuity NY
	Protective Aspirations NY Variable Annuity
PLAIC Variable Annuity Account S	Schwab Genesis NY Variable Annuity
	Schwab Genesis Advisory NY Variable Annuity

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Schedule B

List of Portfolios

Name of Portfolio

All Portfolios of Institutional Shares and Service Shares of Janus Aspen Series open to new investors (as set forth in the current prospectus of Janus Aspen Series).

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