[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 252 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 252

To establish a dependent care assistance program for Federal employees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2001

 Mr. Gilman (for himself and Mrs. McCarthy of New York) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a dependent care assistance program for Federal employees.

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

SECTION 1. DEPENDENT CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.

    Subpart G of part III of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after chapter 87 the following:

            ``CHAPTER 88--DEPENDENT CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

``Sec. 8801. Definitions
    ``(a) For the purpose of this chapter, `employee' means--
            ``(1) an employee as defined by section 2105 of this title;
            ``(2) a Member of Congress as defined by section 2106 of 
        this title;
            ``(3) a Congressional employee as defined by section 2107 
        of this title;
            ``(4) the President;
            ``(5) a justice or judge of the United States appointed to 
        hold office during good behavior (i) who is in regular active 
        judicial service, or (ii) who is retired from regular active 
        service under section 371(b) or 372(a) of title 28, United 
        States Code, or (iii) who has resigned the judicial office 
        under section 371(a) of title 28 with the continued right 
        during the remainder of his lifetime to receive the salary of 
        the office at the time of his resignation;
            ``(6) an individual first employed by the government of the 
        District of Columbia before October 1, 1987;
            ``(7) an individual employed by Gallaudet College;
            ``(8) an individual employed by a county committee 
        established under section 590h(b) of title 16;
            ``(9) an individual appointed to a position on the office 
        staff of a former President under section 1(b) of the Act of 
        August 25, 1958 (72 Stat. 838); and
            ``(10) an individual appointed to a position on the office 
        staff of a former President, or a former Vice President under 
        section 4 of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, as 
        amended (78 Stat. 153), who immediately before the date of such 
        appointment was an employee as defined under any other 
        paragraph of this subsection;
but does not include--
            ``(A) an employee of a corporation supervised by the Farm 
        Credit Administration if private interests elect or appoint a 
        member of the board of directors;
            ``(B) an individual who is not a citizen or national of the 
        United States and whose permanent duty station is outside the 
        United States, unless the individual was an employee for the 
        purpose of this chapter on September 30, 1979, by reason of 
        service in an Executive agency, the United States Postal 
        Service, or the Smithsonian Institution in the area which was 
        then known as the Canal Zone; or
            ``(C) an employee excluded by regulation of the Office of 
        Personnel Management under section 8716(b) of this title.
    ``(b) For the purpose of this chapter, `dependent care assistance 
program' has the meaning given such term by section 129(d) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
``Sec. 8802. Dependent care assistance program
    ``The Office of Personnel Management shall establish and maintain a 
dependent care assistance program for the benefit of employees.''.
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