[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1144 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1144

To amend title 5, United States Code, to increase by 1 year the maximum 
age through which an unmarried dependent child may continue to receive 
  health benefits coverage as a family member, so long as such child 
                      remains a full-time student.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 1993

  Mr. Goodling (for himself, Mr. Bateman, Mr. Frost, Ms. Kaptur, Mrs. 
 Morella, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. Hochbrueckner, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Hansen, Mr. 
Sanders, Mr. McCloskey, Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut, and Mr. Slattery) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                     Post Office and Civil Service.

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to increase by 1 year the maximum 
age through which an unmarried dependent child may continue to receive 
  health benefits coverage as a family member, so long as such child 
                      remains a full-time student.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That (a) paragraph (5) of section 8901 of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
            ``(5) `member of family' means--
                    ``(A) the spouse of an employee or annuitant; and
                    ``(B)(i) an unmarried dependent child under 22 
                years of age, including--
                            ``(I) an adopted child or recognized 
                        natural child; and
                            ``(II) a stepchild or foster child but only 
                        if the child lives with the employee or 
                        annuitant in a regular parent-child 
                        relationship;
                    ``(ii) such an unmarried dependent child regardless 
                of age who is incapable of self-support because of 
                mental or physical disability which existed before age 
                22; or
                    ``(iii) such an unmarried dependent child between 
                22 and 23 years of age who is a student regularly 
                pursuing a full-time course of study or training in 
                residence in a junior college, college, university, or 
                comparable recognized educational institution;
        for the purpose of clause (iii), a child whose 23rd birthday 
        occurs before July 1 or after August 31 of a calendar year, and 
        while such child is regularly pursuing such a course of study 
        or training, is deemed to have become 23 years of age on the 
        first day of July after that birthday; a child who is a student 
        is deemed not to have ceased to be a student during an interim 
        between school years if the interim is not more than 5 months 
        and if the child shows to the satisfaction of the Office of 
        Personnel Management that such child has a bona fide intention 
        of continuing to pursue a course of study or training in the 
        same or a different school during the school semester (or other 
        period into which the school year is divided) immediately after 
        the interim;''.
    (b) Nothing in paragraph (5) of section 8901 of title 5, United 
States Code (as amended by subsection (a)) which follows clause (ii) of 
such paragraph shall apply with respect to any individual who became 22 
years of age before the date of the enactment of this Act.

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