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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 13, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Ms. JOHNSON of Texas:H.R. 1719.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, clause 18 allows Congress to make alllaws ``which shall be necessary and proper for carrying intoexecution'' any of Congress's enumerated powers.[Page H2718]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <fullName>Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>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.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend regulations relating to the eligibility of Federal employees, during a Government shutdown, for supplemental vision and dental coverage, and for other purposes.</title>
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      <text>Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.</text>
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