To amend regulations relating to the eligibility of Federal employees, during a Government shutdown, for supplemental vision and dental coverage, and for other purposes.

This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management to revise a rule concerning federal-employee supplemental vision and dental insurance coverage. The revision continues such coverage for up to one year in the event that a lapse in appropriations causes a federal employee to go unpaid or underpaid and the employee does not make such insurance premium payments during the period of nonpayment.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1719 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1719

To amend regulations relating to the eligibility of Federal employees, 
   during a Government shutdown, for supplemental vision and dental 
                   coverage, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2019

Ms. Johnson of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend regulations relating to the eligibility of Federal employees, 
   during a Government shutdown, for supplemental vision and dental 
                   coverage, 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. MAINTAINING SUPPLEMENTAL VISION AND DENTAL COVERAGE FOR 
              FEDERAL EMPLOYEES DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall 
amend section 894.601 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, by 
adding at the end of subsection (b) the following: ``Notwithstanding 
the preceding sentence, if you go into a period of nonpay or 
insufficient pay as a result in a lapse of appropriations of the agency 
at which you are employed, and you do not make direct premium payments 
during that lapse, your FEDVIP coverage continues during such lapse, 
but in no case may such coverage be continued under this sentence for a 
period of a lapse in appropriations longer than 1 year.''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to any contract for dental or vision benefits under chapter 89A or 89B, 
respectively, of title 5, United States Code, entered into after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
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