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5 U.S.C. § 8906a — Temporary employees
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**(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.
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**(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.
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**(a)** The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations necessary to carry out this chapter.
**(b)** The regulations of the Office may prescribe the time at which and the manner and conditions under which an employee is eligible to enroll in an approved health benefits plan described by section 8903 or 8903a of this title. The regulations may exclude an employee on the basis of the nature and type of his employment or conditions pertaining to it, such as short-term appointment, seasonal or intermittent employment, and employment of like nature. The Office may not exclude—
(1) an employee or group of employees solely on the basis of the hazardous nature of employment;
(2) a teacher in the employ of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, whose pay is fixed by [section 1501 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim), District of Columbia Code, on the basis of the fact that the teacher is serving under a temporary appointment if the teacher has been so employed by the Board for a period or periods totaling not less than two school years;
(3) an employee who is occupying a position on a part-time career employment basis (as defined in [section 3401(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3401/2&num=0&edition=prelim)); or
(4) an employee who is employed on a temporary basis and is eligible under section 8906a(a).
**(c)** The regulations of the Office shall provide for the beginning and ending dates of coverage of employees, annuitants, members of their families, and former spouses under health benefits plans. The regulations may permit the coverage to continue, exclusive of the temporary extension of coverage described b
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TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 8907
Office of Personnel Management shall transmit rec-
ommendations to the Congress for comprehensive re-
form of the Federal Employee Health Benefits Pro-
gram.’’
CONTRIBUTIONS BY UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO
EMPLOYEES HEALTH BENEFITS FUND
Pub. L. 100–203, title VI, § 6003, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat.
1330–277, directed Postal Service to pay $160,000,000 in
fiscal year 1988 and $270,000,000 in fiscal year 1989 into
Employee Health Benefits Fund in addition to any
amount deposited into Fund pursuant to this section in
each such fiscal year.
EMPLOYEES SERVING ON PART-TIME CAREER
EMPLOYMENT BASIS ON OCTOBER 10, 1978
Pub. L. 95–437, § 4(c)(2)(B), Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1059,
provided that: ‘‘The amendments made by subpara-
graph (A) [amending subsec. (b)(1) and (3) of this sec-
tion] shall not apply with respect to any employee
serving in a position on a part-time career employment
basis on the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 10,
1978] for such period as the employee continues to serve
without a break in service in that or any other position
on such part-time basis.’’
CALCULATION
AND PAYMENT
BY GOVERNMENT
OF CON-
TRIBUTIONS
TO
CONTINGENCY
RESERVES
OF
ALL
HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS
Pub. L. 97–346, § 4, Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1650, directed
Office of Personnel Management to determine amount
by which Government contribution under 5 U.S.C.
8906(b) for the 1983 contract year was less than the Gov-
ernment contribution which would have been deter-
mined under such section for such contract year if Gov-
ernment contribution had been calculated by using the
two employee organization plans which in 1981 satisfied
the standard set forth in 5 U.S.C. 8906(a)(3) directed
Government to pay amount of di
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