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[CITE: 5USC8350]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
                         CHAPTER 83--RETIREMENT
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT
 
Sec. 8350. Retirement counseling

    (a) For the purposes of this section, the term ``retirement 
counselor'', when used with respect to an agency, means an employee of 
the agency who is designated by the head of the agency to furnish 
information on benefits under this subchapter and chapter 84 of this 
title and counseling services relating to such benefits to other 
employees of the agency.
    (b) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall 
establish a training program for all retirement counselors of agencies 
of the Federal Government.
    (c)(1) The training program established under subsection (b) of this 
section shall provide for comprehensive training in the provisions and 
administration of this subchapter and chapter 84 of this title, shall be 
designed to promote fully informed retirement decisions by employees and 
Members under this subchapter and individuals subject to chapter 84 of 
this title, and shall be revised as necessary to assure that the 
information furnished to retirement counselors of agencies under the 
program is current.
    (2) The Director shall conduct a training session under the training 
program at least once every 3 months.
    (3) Once each year, each retirement counselor of an agency shall 
successfully complete a training session conducted under the training 
program.

(Added Pub. L. 99-335, title II, Sec. 205(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 
592; amended Pub. L. 99-556, title II, Sec. 202, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 
Stat. 3135.)


                               Amendments

    1986--Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 99-556 substituted ``subsection (b)'' 
for ``subsection (b)(1)''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective June 6, 1986, see section 702(b)(3) of Pub. L. 99-
335, set out as a note under section 8401 of this title.
