To amend title 5, United States Code, to make clear that family coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program remains available with respect to an otherwise eligible child of a Federal employee or annuitant until that child attains 26 years of age, and for other purposes.

Extends eligibility for coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to a federal employee's, annuitant's, or former spouse's dependent child (currently, unmarried dependent child) who is under age 26 (currently, under age 22) or incapable of self-support because of mental or physical disability which existed before age 26 (currently, before age 22).

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5179 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5179

    To amend title 5, United States Code, to make clear that family 
 coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program remains 
  available with respect to an otherwise eligible child of a Federal 
employee or annuitant until that child attains 26 years of age, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 2010

 Mrs. Dahlkemper introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
            the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 5, United States Code, to make clear that family 
 coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program remains 
  available with respect to an otherwise eligible child of a Federal 
employee or annuitant until that child attains 26 years of age, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF DEPENDENT COVERAGE UNDER FEHBP.

    (a) Provisions Relating to Age.--Chapter 89 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 8901(5)--
                    (A) in the matter before subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``22 years of age'' and inserting ``26 years 
                of age''; and
                    (B) in the matter after subparagraph (B), by 
                striking ``age 22'' and inserting ``age 26''; and
            (2) in section 8905(c)(2)(B)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by striking ``22 years of age'' 
                and inserting ``26 years of age''; and
                    (B) in clause (ii), by striking ``age 22'' and 
                inserting ``age 26''.
    (b) Provisions Relating to Marital Status.--Chapter 89 of title 5, 
United States Code, is further amended--
            (1) in section 8901(5) and subsections (b)(2)(A), 
        (c)(2)(B), (e)(1)(B), and (e)(2)(A) of section 8905a, by 
        striking ``an unmarried dependent'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``a dependent''; and
            (2) in section 8905(c)(2)(B), by striking ``unmarried 
        dependent'' and inserting ``dependent''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
become effective on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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