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[CITE: 5USC8906a]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
                      CHAPTER 89--HEALTH INSURANCE
 
Sec. 8906a. Temporary employees

    (a)(1) The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe 
regulations to provide for offering health benefits plans to temporary 
employees (who meet the requirements of paragraph (2)) under the 
provisions of this chapter.
    (2) To be eligible to participate in a health benefits plan offered 
under this section a temporary employee shall have completed 1 year of 
current continuous employment, excluding any break in service of 5 days 
or less.
    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8906--
        (1) any temporary employee enrolled in a health benefits plan 
    under this section shall have an amount withheld from the pay of 
    such employee, as determined by the Office of Personnel Management, 
    equal to--
            (A) the amount withheld from the pay of an employee under 
        the provisions of section 8906; and
            (B) the amount of the Government contribution for an 
        employee under section 8906; and

        (2) the employing agency of any such temporary employee shall 
    not pay the Government contribution under the provisions of section 
    8906.

(Added Pub. L. 100-654, title III, Sec. 301(a), Nov. 14, 1988, 102 Stat. 
3846.)


                             Effective Date

    Section 301(d) of Pub. L. 100-654 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by this section [enacting this section and amending section 8913 of 
this title] shall be effective 120 days after the date of enactment of 
this section [Nov. 14, 1988].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8913 of this title.
