[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 288 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 288

To amend title 5, United States Code, to grant to the widow or widower 
  of a Federal employee or annuitant whose health insurance coverage 
  would otherwise terminate because of such employee's or annuitant's 
death the right to elect the same temporary extension of coverage as is 
                  available to certain former spouses.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

 Mrs. Morella 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 grant to the widow or widower 
  of a Federal employee or annuitant whose health insurance coverage 
  would otherwise terminate because of such employee's or annuitant's 
death the right to elect the same temporary extension of coverage as is 
                  available to certain former spouses.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section 
8905a(f) of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (A);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of 
                subparagraph (B) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(C) to any individual whose coverage as the spouse of an 
        employee or former employee would otherwise terminate (without 
        any right to continue coverage under section 8905(b)(2)) as a 
        result of the employee's or former employee's death.'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)(C) by striking ``or legal 
        separation,'' and inserting ``legal separation, or spouse's 
        death,''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by inserting ``, or the death of,'' 
                        after ``legal separation from''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``or legal separation (as 
                        the case may be)'' and inserting ``legal 
                        separation, or death (as the case may be)''; 
                        and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B) by striking ``or legal 
                separation'' and inserting ``legal separation, or 
                spouse's death''.
    (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as of 
the date of the enactment of this Act, but shall not apply with respect 
to any individual seeking to continue coverage as the survivor of an 
employee or former employee who died before such effective date.

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