1.Short title; references;
table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited
as the Domestic Partnership Benefits
and Obligations Act of 2011
.
(b)Except
as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is
expressed in terms of an amendment to, or a repeal of, a section or other
provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other
provision of title 5, United States Code.
(c)The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; references; table of contents.
Title I—Domestic partnerships
Sec. 101. Domestic partnerships.
Title II—Civil Service Retirement System
Sec. 201. Definitions.
Sec. 202. Creditable service.
Sec. 203. Computation of annuity.
Sec. 204. Cost-of-living adjustment of annuities.
Sec. 205. Survivor annuities.
Sec. 206. Lump-sum benefits; designation of beneficiary; order
of precedence.
Sec. 207. Alternative forms of annuities.
Sec. 208. Administration; regulations.
Sec. 209. Participation in the Thrift Savings Plan.
Title III—Federal Employees’ Retirement System
Sec. 301. Definitions.
Sec. 302. Creditable service.
Sec. 303. Survivor reduction for a current spouse or a current
domestic partner.
Sec. 304. Survivor reduction for a former spouse or former
domestic partner.
Sec. 305. Survivor elections; deposit; offsets.
Sec. 306. Survivor reductions; computation.
Sec. 307. Insurable interest reductions.
Sec. 308. Alternative forms of annuities.
Sec. 309. Lump-sum benefits; designation of beneficiary; order
of precedence.
Sec. 310. Annuities: methods of payment; election;
purchase.
Sec. 311. Protections for spouses, domestic partners, former
spouses, and former domestic partners.
Sec. 312. Justices and judges.
Sec. 313. Survivor annuities: definitions.
Sec. 314. Rights of a widow, widower, or surviving
partner.
Sec. 315. Rights of a former spouse or former domestic
partner.
Sec. 316. Authority of the Office of Personnel
Management.
Sec. 317. Cost-of-living adjustments.
Sec. 318. Fiduciary responsibilities; liability and
penalties.
Title IV—Insurance benefits
Sec. 401. Life insurance.
Sec. 402. Health insurance.
Sec. 403. Enhanced dental benefits.
Sec. 404. Enhanced vision benefits.
Sec. 405. Long-term care insurance.
Title V—Travel, transportation, and subsistence
Sec. 501. Reimbursement for taxes incurred on money received
for travel expenses.
Sec. 502. Relocation expenses of employees transferred or
reemployed.
Sec. 503. Taxes on reimbursements for travel, transportation,
and relocation expenses of employees transferred.
Sec. 504. Relocation expenses of an employee who is performing
an extended assignment.
Title VI—Compensation for work injuries
Sec. 601. Definitions.
Sec. 602. Death gratuity for injuries incurred in connection
with employee’s service with an Armed Force.
Sec. 603. Beneficiaries of awards unpaid at death; order of
precedence.
Sec. 604. Augmented compensation for dependents.
Sec. 605. Limitations on right to receive
compensation.
Sec. 606. Compensation in case of death.
Sec. 607. Lump-sum payment.
Sec. 608. Regulations.
Sec. 609. Effective date.
Title VII—Provisions relating to employment of relatives and
other matters
Sec. 701. Employment of relatives; restrictions.
Sec. 702. Settlement of accounts.
Sec. 703. Benefits for captives.
Sec. 704. Compensation for disability or death.
Sec. 705. Family and medical leave.
Title VIII—Additional provisions
Sec. 801. Applicability.
Sec. 802. Regulations.
Title IX—Amendment to the Ethics in Government Act of
1978
Sec. 901. Amendment to the Ethics in Government Act of
1978.
Title X—Reporting requirements
Sec. 1001. Report of the president.
Sec. 1002. GAO report.
<enum>I</enum><header>Domestic
partnerships</header>
<section id="H282C68889CAB41F7B964DC1472B11F17"><enum>101.</enum><header>Domestic
partnerships</header>
<subsection id="H30D60735E54240B9B7F1F3C762B4D3B0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 21 is amended
by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD21EA96490FF4F1FBE4B25659F879F17" style="USC">
<section id="HABFFF01E7EAF4494B2B752ADD4F2D69C"><enum>2110.</enum><header>Domestic
partnerships</header>
<subsection id="H8246A77EBC2F4E4F9F1654115B07C7B4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>To
establish the existence of a domestic partnership, between an employee, former
employee, or annuitant and another individual, for purposes of the provisions
of law to which this section applies, the employee, former employee, or
annuitant (as the case may be) shall be required to file an affidavit, in such
form and manner as the Office of Personnel Management shall by regulation
prescribe, attesting to the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H9FC64018438B43B385E532B53E0BE92E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Both individuals
are members of the same sex.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6A4DE7C9C0814715BAFFD40CED021D22"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Both individuals
are at least 18 years of age and competent to contract.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAFD57F272BB94551ABC3B264FE3486DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The filing
employee, former employee, or annuitant (as the case may be) has notified the
other individual of the filing of the affidavit attesting that their
partnership satisfies the requirements of this subsection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFF99A27D7BD343E8AB83F6F7121586BF"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Such individuals
are in a domestic partnership with one another and intend to remain so
indefinitely.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H89280F9A634047D7BA6DF7B417C60834"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Such
individuals—</text>
<subparagraph id="HEE6EDC366D45401594ABCBEA46861002"><enum>(A)</enum><text>have a common
residence; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H788F8FBB971044CC94D95DDE8CB109C4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>do not have a
common residence because of financial, employment-related, or other reasons, as
identified in the affidavit.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6A5F461B42A546B19F953C689444E021"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Neither individual
is married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone outside of the domestic
partnership referred to in paragraph (4).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDB2903DB4AC548A0991364A35DB71735"><enum>(7)</enum><text>The 2 individuals
share responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s common welfare
and financial obligations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAC6FE34A517C41BDB848FDD7840EACD5"><enum>(8)</enum><text>The 2 individuals
are not related in a way that, if they were of the opposite sex, would prohibit
legal marriage in the jurisdiction in which either individual resides.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H158ED7E511CB4471BD2942AE6519D7D1"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The filing employee, former employee, or
annuitant (as the case may be) understands that willful falsification of
information set forth in the affidavit or failure to provide appropriate
notification of the termination of the domestic partnership may lead to the
recovery of amounts obtained as a result of such falsification or failure (as
the case may be), criminal or other penalties, and (in appropriate cases)
disciplinary action.</text>
</paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">An
affidavit shall not be effective for purposes of this section unless the filing
individual is an employee, former employee, or annuitant as of the time of
filing. No 2 individuals shall, for purposes of the provisions of law to which
this section applies, be treated as being in a domestic partnership with one
another unless there is in effect, in accordance with regulations prescribed by
the Office, an affidavit filed in accordance with the preceding provisions of
this subsection. An affidavit so filed shall remain in effect until the earlier
of the date of the death of either individual or the date as of which the
domestic partnership is otherwise terminated, as determined under such
regulations.</continuation-text></subsection><subsection id="HAE91659934814314869CE979356CBE16"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Domestic
partner</header><text>For purposes of the provisions of law to which this
section applies, the term <term>domestic partner</term> means an individual who
is in a domestic partnership, as described in subsection (a).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H01CE8E69BC3B49258622158EAADB5C7A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Employee
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this
section, the term <term>employee</term> means an employee as defined by section
2105, an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the Department
of Defense or the Coast Guard (as described in section 2105(c)), an employee of
the United States Postal Service or of the Postal Regulatory Commission (as
described in section 2105(e)), a Member of Congress, a member of the
commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, a member of the commissioned
corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and any other
individual who is employed by the Government (as determined under regulations
of the President or a designee thereof), but does not include a technician
(within the meaning of section 8337(h) or, notwithstanding any provision of
chapter 43 of title 38, a member of the armed forces.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H112CC2AF4FDA4E9899DD3C6CA1972005"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Annuitant
defined</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this
section, the term <term>annuitant</term> means—</text>
<paragraph id="H4A9C7A4E63764418B42CBBBA36FB55A0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>an annuitant
within the meaning of section 8331 or 8401; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0DDC260A27B8419B901A0847BDC6D579"><enum>(2)</enum><text>as determined
under regulations prescribed by the President or a designee thereof, any other
individual who is entitled to benefits (based on the service of such
individual) under a retirement system for employees of the Government.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE0A044EB172944B4A6B57F831624EA62"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Confidentiality</header><text>No
individual may—</text>
<paragraph id="H2AC55C5E74B34E3781415D1B4D662DF5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>use the
information obtained under subsection (a) for any purpose other than the
administration of any provision of law to which this section applies; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4C637C17F55A4E68AFAF14DECBA9525B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">furnish any information obtained under
subsection (a) to anyone, or permit anyone to examine or otherwise gain access
to any such information, except for—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA041D84870B04B889AE258802D2E016C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an individual who
needs such information for a purpose that satisfies paragraph (1); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H81EA069E9AD6411492F27D231D56B1F8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a member of the
domestic partnership to which the information pertains or an authorized
representative thereof.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HFC26BEFAECCD4A11B7870C58C95726EE"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>This
section applies for purposes of the provisions of this title (excluding chapter
81) and any provision of law identified in or under title VIII of the
<short-title>Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations
Act of
2011</short-title>.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H3222FA3D3493412996809813B7A5D202"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter 21 is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
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<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">2110. Domestic partnerships.
</toc-entry>
</toc>
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</subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Civil Service
Retirement System</header>
<section id="HB4F35D0758FF497CB0FD5675FE400182"><enum>201.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8331 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2099EF8BEB7D44CC9231784E0D62F4A0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (30),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H99342C7C259644E8B07385D926AF0410"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (31),
by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD2B23F1D11894F328E6C537D4C40546B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H777B943498B74AD19587092137CC646E" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="HB9516B506F754BDBB338093A3C964D6E"><enum>(32)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><term>former domestic partner</term> means
a former domestic partner of an individual—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HAEB6B31F63384875B4961B38BC2A0D9D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>if such individual
performed at least 18 months of civilian service as an employee or Member;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H75BF590417EF496D8A714126C0D8F9FF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if the former
domestic partner was in a domestic partnership with such individual for at
least 9
months.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HF106E940575D4A6D8AE1526D3A16E5EE"><enum>202.</enum><header>Creditable
service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8332 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HD3296394F46941ADBC49CE5252754A1D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(3)(C)(ii), by striking <quote>former spouse.</quote> and inserting
<quote>former spouse or former domestic partner.</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBED48303592146A1B8D029FBCA1E9E91"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraphs (4)
and (5) of subsection (o), by striking <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears and inserting <quote>spouse, domestic partner,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H095048E243C54A6EB756D615FB112562"><enum>203.</enum><header>Computation of
annuity</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8339 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H1623B662277A4E39BC969113E095E262"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(j)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H811008FD367B44C28E3AC2B683B132D2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="HD952874D0C3C4D8398C34BD9B62E460B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>the spouse</quote>
each place it appears;</text>
</clause><clause id="H7BFD6F8AF7DA44FC8E8650D01D8AA130"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or has a domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>is
married</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H323D0DC46C48460B89B84FE328209C93"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner’s)</quote> after <quote>the
spouse’s</quote> each place it appears;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFF153E9EE0BA4F74819C38343FE7FDA6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote> each place it appears;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6BDBBEC2C3274164B466F64906640E9B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="HD586200ACCDB4EC19B3FC5DD6A6341F5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
the first sentence—</text>
<subclause id="HD657935DECE34B8685BE8134BCB3FECD"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former spouse</quote>
each place it appears; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HBB95340DE231495E88807D4CDC4F3E44"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or being in a domestic partnership with)</quote> after <quote>based on
marriage to</quote>;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H3E3BBDB68F64482BB0EE3EFF4096E897"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
the second sentence—</text>
<subclause id="H984298FEDD144C1F9C58EC9418793A52"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or the domestic partnership of the former domestic partner
with)</quote> after <quote>the marriage of the former spouse to</quote>;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H0558A7D36B114318AC3084F6349A079A"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>is dissolved,</quote> and inserting <quote>is dissolved (or
terminated),</quote>;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="HC8841DAF20B24F6B861FBA62F2FC86CF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in
the sixth sentence, by striking <quote>former spouse.</quote> and inserting
<quote>former spouse (or former domestic partner).</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="H5B8F096B782E472F808601BFB3FABCD6"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (B)—</text>
<subclause id="H004CA56887E2426BB2B47B2D8EEA8239"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>is then married,</quote> and inserting <quote>is then married (or is
then in a domestic partnership),</quote>; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HEFCC27888266427799641F8291DB54FD"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>the spouse’s written consent.</quote> and inserting <quote>the written
consent of the spouse (or domestic partner).</quote>; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="HF50B84BE643341898808CEFCD5C192BE"><enum>(v)</enum><text>by
amending the next to last sentence to read as follows: <quote>In the case of a
retired employee or Member whose annuity is being reduced in order to provide a
survivor annuity for a former spouse (or former domestic partner), an election
to provide or increase a survivor annuity for any other former spouse (or any
other former domestic partner), and to continue an appropriate reduction for
that purpose, may be made within the same period that, and subject to the same
conditions under which, an election could be made under paragraph (5)(B) for a
current spouse (or a current domestic partner), subject to the provisions of
this paragraph relating to consent of a current spouse (or of a current
domestic partner), if the retired employee or Member is then married (or in a
domestic partnership).</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC36D96051162481C95585C9467653454"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (5) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC9469D358B944DB58AF65C7B116A4491" style="USC">
<paragraph id="HE186EC93986541E9833E5860FFAEE697" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H63E8B8ECDF304B40B266E39294754096"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any reduction in an annuity for the purpose
of providing a survivor annuity for the current spouse (or the current domestic
partner) of a retired employee or Member shall be terminated for each full
month—</text>
<clause id="H5BC3A9E52B034C53AFE3C3A14A714369" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after the death of the spouse (or domestic
partner), or</text>
</clause><clause id="H1EFF631689DC439EB28EEAB1F3CE1C41" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after the dissolution of the marriage of
the spouse (or the termination of the domestic partnership of the domestic
partner) to the employee or Member,</text>
</clause></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph" indent="subsection">except that an appropriate reduction shall be made
thereafter if the spouse (or domestic partner) is entitled, as a former spouse
(or former domestic partner), to a survivor annuity under section
8341(h).</continuation-text><subparagraph id="H58F50B9651C84D8BB5DC34E59E070F77" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any reduction in an annuity for the purpose
of providing a survivor annuity for a former spouse (or a former domestic
partner) of a retired employee or Member shall be terminated for each full
month after the former spouse remarries (or the former domestic partner enters
into a subsequent domestic partnership) before reaching age 55 or dies. This
reduction shall be replaced by an appropriate reduction or reductions under
paragraph (4) if the retired employee or Member has (i) another former spouse
(or another former domestic partner) who is entitled to a survivor annuity
under section 8341(h), (ii) a current spouse to whom the employee or Member was
married (or a current domestic partner with whom the employee or Member was in
a domestic partnership) at the time of retirement and with respect to whom a
survivor annuity was not jointly waived under paragraph (1), or (iii) a current
spouse whom the employee or Member married (or a current domestic partner with
whom the employee or Member entered into domestic partnership) after retirement
and with respect to whom an election has been made under subparagraph (C) or
subsection (k)(2).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDAB112FB6D494656971E33BFE27FE24E" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD15F1D15EDA24D7291C86DE20A4A285C"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon remarriage (or entry into a subsequent
domestic partnership), a retired employee or Member who was married (or in a
domestic partnership) at the time of retirement, including an employee or
Member whose annuity was not reduced to provide a survivor annuity for the
employee’s or Member's spouse or former spouse (or domestic partner or former
domestic partner) as of the time of retirement, may irrevocably elect during
such marriage (or domestic partnership), in a signed writing received by the
Office—</text>
<subclause id="HE42C27C6F30049C0AF357F4265D695BF" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>within 2 years after such remarriage
(or such subsequent domestic partnership), or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H96482F9FE10E48B39D21AF96F784C9EB" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if later, within 2 years
after—</text>
<item id="H025715F911EA4343B6EFCC36722493E9"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the death or remarriage of any former
spouse (or the death of or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership by any
former domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a
survivor annuity under section 8341(h), or</text>
</item><item id="H1F0DD97B63094D57A285B2A2C5791313"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>if there was more than 1, the
death or remarriage of the last such surviving former spouse (or the death of
or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership by the last such surviving
former domestic partner),</text>
</item><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subclause" indent="subsection">a reduction in the employee’s or Member's annuity
under paragraph (4) for the purpose of providing an annuity for such employee’s
or Member's spouse (or domestic partner) in the event such spouse (or domestic
partner) survives the employee or Member.</continuation-text></subclause></clause><clause id="H07FEB4DF6BC54B45B46E5FD807F313E9" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such election and reduction shall be
effective the first day of the second month after the election is received by
the Office, but not less than 9 months after the date of the remarriage (or
entry into the subsequent domestic partnership), and the retired employee or
Member shall deposit in the Fund an amount determined by the Office of
Personnel Management, as nearly as may be administratively feasible, to reflect
the amount by which the annuity of such retired employee or Member would have
been reduced if the election had been in effect since the date of retirement
or, if later, the date the previous reduction in such retired employee’s or
Member's annuity was terminated under subparagraph (A) or (B), plus interest.
For the purposes of the preceding sentence, the annual rate of interest for
each year during which an annuity would have been reduced if the election had
been in effect on and after the applicable date referred to in such sentence
shall be 6 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H6EBCB521AD834DE29BEC695572DCDE4E" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Office shall, by regulation, provide
for payment of the deposit required under clause (ii) by a reduction in the
annuity of the employee or Member. The reduction shall, to the extent
practicable, be designed so that the present value of the future reduction is
actuarially equivalent to the deposit required under clause (ii), except that
total reductions in the annuity of an employee or Member to pay deposits
required by the provisions of this paragraph or paragraph (3) shall not exceed
25 percent of the annuity computed under subsections (a) through (i), (n), (q),
and (r), including adjustments under section 8340. The reduction required by
this clause, which shall be effective on the same date as the election under
clause (i), shall be permanent and unaffected by any future dissolution of the
marriage (or termination of the domestic partnership). Such reduction shall be
independent of and in addition to the reduction required under clause
(i).</text>
</clause><clause id="HB5C0364ED65D42549046EED7F65EE2F9" indent="up1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this
subparagraph, an election under this subparagraph may not be made for the
purpose of providing an annuity in the case of a spouse by remarriage (or a
domestic partner by a subsequent domestic partnership) if such spouse was
married to (or if such domestic partner was in a domestic partnership with) the
employee or Member at the time of such employee’s or Member's retirement, and
all rights to survivor benefits for such spouse (or domestic partner) under
this subchapter based on marriage (or domestic partnership) to such employee or
Member were then waived under paragraph (1) or a similar prior provision of
law.</text>
</clause><clause id="HB25BD7D32A664CE9A73306AB70A02A5C" indent="up1"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An election to provide a survivor annuity
to a person under this subparagraph—</text>
<subclause id="HF5305FBBE17A4C529DA135E2504FC105"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall prospectively void any election made
by the employee or Member under subsection (k)(1) with respect to such person;
or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H3808A71CEA194FE599F6D8FF79963A9F"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall, if an election was made by the
employee or Member under such subsection (k)(1) with respect to a different
person, prospectively void such election if appropriate written application is
made by such employee or Member at the time of making the election under this
subparagraph.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H33EF22DC5F59462A8AEA1E4D43B3C201" indent="up1"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The deposit provisions of clauses (ii) and
(iii) shall not apply if—</text>
<subclause id="H7E70C08D694F48BD8B1E7B57E7AC55FF"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the employee or Member makes an election
under this subparagraph after having made an election under subsection (k)(1);
and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HA7A51C3EAE1246E4A1904754D5EA18DB"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the election under subsection (k)(1)
becomes void under clause (v).</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H379327533F5D44399439362DFA8275C5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(k)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H18441FFA86584A9385F61B16787F1F89"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="HD3BA5B0B72ED4E21B426E9FE66A9C8A9"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>a married employee or
Member</quote> and inserting <quote>an employee or Member who is married (or in
a domestic partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H6DE0027D8C56421EB899DAEBF1CAB13E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each
place it appears;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8BB318F2A395453180312F6D29159875"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="H8DD16A2C432C438D9C7E199D240B3B9F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking the matter before subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4F4F4EBD007F45108E27A822F26E9038" style="USC">
<paragraph id="H2615F4C6BFE146EFA1969F756BF07997" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H463997A1BF22482DABC108DF0A029AD5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>An employee or Member,
who is unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership) at the time of retiring
under a provision of law which permits election of a reduced annuity with a
survivor annuity payable to such employee’s or Member's spouse (or domestic
partner) and who later marries (or enters into a domestic partnership), may
irrevocably elect, in a signed writing received in the Office—</text>
<clause id="H80D65D29E39347EA93FC86CF44C87269" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>within 2 years after such employee or
Member marries (or enters into a domestic partnership), or</text>
</clause><clause id="HD4B6CA1327BA4FA4ABA7071395DD350D" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if later, within 2 years
after—</text>
<subclause id="HCA2629C170864EDFBA3E15244A2E6B1B"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the death or remarriage of any
former spouse (or the death of or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership
by any former domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to
a survivor annuity under section 8341(h), or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H093AF7BAE34E4ADEABCA92B4A9D0D3E9"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if there was more than 1, the
death (or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership) by the last such
surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner),</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="subsection">a
reduction in the retired employee or Member's current annuity as provided in
subsection
(j).</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause><clause id="HEF718799197F4205AEC224E4211924E3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (B)(i) (in the matter before subclause (I)), by striking
<quote>marriage.</quote> and inserting <quote>marriage (or entry into a
domestic partnership).</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="H06B35376D572486AB56ADAB1AF6ECAA2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (B)(ii), by inserting <quote>(or in a domestic
partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HD1A07C9BC8C748069725854713D27BAE"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>marriage.</quote> and inserting
<quote>marriage (or domestic partnership).</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H61F4801988384FB4BB9210274C9D4DAA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(o)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE8760C98F37447B0AF7166D72D071CB3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraphs
(A)(i) and (B)(i), by striking <quote>is married,</quote> and inserting
<quote>is married (or is in a domestic partnership),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE2DBECB0BD5044A3A855878D3DFC19C8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A) (in the matter following clause (ii)), by inserting <quote>(or domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="H87EEAFE0D7404166BA3B195DF1318422"><enum>204.</enum><header>Cost-of-living
adjustment of annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8340 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0C4A5FA5F3F041CDB68AC2A736D3DB1A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H44C7625602164315921821387AB5C541"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (1);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2AFCB09DD4A8478C9F63D2046488BFD7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the
period at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H0032FB5A1A3A4833BF90E06B1826488F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B5F60EE64A745748597BBF74A7A8229" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H30610152F7C7407FB5E03610FA650EB8"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the terms <term>widow</term>,
<term>widower</term>, and <term>surviving partner</term> have the respective
meanings given them under section 8341.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H9F3945844E7445D48774E462737331B0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H9C60739E695C41DE9169A54A62075BCE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter
before subparagraph (A), by striking all after <quote>who retires,</quote> and
before <quote>of a deceased annuitant</quote> and inserting <quote>to the
widow, widower, or former spouse (or the surviving partner or former domestic
partner) of a deceased employee or Member, or to the widow, widower, or former
spouse (or the surviving partner or former domestic partner), or insurable
interest designee</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF9F513014D894287AF906795E4A74FA5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B)(ii), by striking <quote>a widow, widower, former spouse, or insurable
interest designee</quote> and inserting <quote>a widow, widower, or former
spouse (or surviving partner or former domestic partner) or insurable interest
designee</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="H9EC1E9EE7C23458EA5E525A289117999"><enum>205.</enum><header>Survivor
annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8341 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HF7DAC6C48DA24A4D84D07A97249328FE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3AEF3F9CEC524B5C9B590AD7A4D8666B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD82ECDDEA7174CC199805DBB91AFF502"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (2) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9673A10D051B4E59A75D7A4131F6FE15" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H63CCD4FBD6C940718DDDC1401DB34D75"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><term>surviving partner</term> means the
surviving domestic partner of an employee or Member who—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HBB8761DD718E419A8C07D5A6C0FBDD2F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>was in a domestic
partnership with such employee or Member for at least 9 months immediately
before the death of such employee or Member; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HED5B30E4024E4E07BC129DD5CB82003F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>satisfies such
other requirement, based on parenthood, as the Office of Personnel Management
shall by regulation prescribe based on the definition of a widow or widower
under this section;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H48E5A4F1291A436B9D597329BFB77D1F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)
(as so redesignated by subparagraph (A))—</text>
<clause id="H4FC90E4D0315432A9273265B2308658D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote>
after <quote>the surviving spouse</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HA5AE7D1E19BD426BA98DABE15D0F5BEB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
adding at the end the following: <quote>The Office shall prescribe regulations
to provide that, for purposes of applying the provisions of paragraph
(5)(A)(ii) (relating to the treatment of a stepchild) in the case of a domestic
partnership, rules similar to those prescribed to carry out section 8901(5)(B)
in similar circumstances shall apply.</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2C1F61E4ED044EA9957F5C76F0457EFA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HFFE7B2110D15471E94B68DD978B282F8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="HDB7D499AC66F46BEA2D515359C5EC2D5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>widow or widower</quote> each place it appears and inserting
<quote>widow or widower (or surviving partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H161D0C0B425C460682E40F024A44F4D2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>remarriage,</quote> and inserting <quote>remarriage (or entry
into a subsequent domestic partnership)</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H26ADC9CEBC49406F9028C4BE77A5184C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="HF4AC6F7217AC45EB95C8D4A343940AD7"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>widow or widower</quote>
each place it appears and inserting <quote>widow or widower (or surviving
partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H62C0421CE68D4272BCE49B1632BC8BEA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or in a domestic partnership with)</quote> after
<quote>married to</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H96C1DBD8AAFD4B9BB63638971FA1AED9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="HCE9A735801A1435DA21C838F5A9A2427"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
the matter before subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>(or domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="HA5D1EFF5220A4BB5A2D4E1319127EDD3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>widow or widower</quote>
each place it appears and inserting <quote>widow or widower (or surviving
partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HD5CC6A7E433C4FC1BD3D384BABD57AD8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (B), by inserting <quote>(or enters into a subsequent domestic
partnership)</quote> after <quote>remarries</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8329B12F72584E8CA3E6AC552EF25BA9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph
(4)—</text>
<clause id="H9A80FE595DDB407197337B07ECD21D6A"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>widow or widower</quote>
each place it appears and inserting <quote>widow or widower (or surviving
partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H0BE028ACCF824AC09280AC745ACB97FD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (B), by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote>
after <quote>former spouse</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDC1EB386E3774A0289D823707A050827"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1DE1DF8FDD2042A4B7A5511434C358EE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>widow or widower</quote>
each place it appears and inserting <quote>widow or widower (or surviving
partner)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB5584EC4F0E845699F5C89ED3BE6BEC1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by inserting
<quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former spouse</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1672E411D7704F5FA637AA2B546AA2BC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by
inserting <quote>(or enters into a subsequent domestic partnership)</quote>
after <quote>remarries</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5F5640C5E4FB4C3D85342425B6001AC3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3A3F23A5B7944351819D1FAE97180DD3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the
matter before paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5FFF990A55C6447CBB4B91A39790F4EE" style="USC">
<subsection id="H5753228FC4414E45B147756151906A1B"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC581DCA02397405291CD5A3A9EF29280"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the purposes of this
subsection—</text>
<subparagraph id="H391A3796B1004F20B46B0D42B74C8368" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the term <term>former spouse</term>
includes a former spouse who was married to an employee or Member for less than
9 months and a former spouse of an employee or Member who completed less than
18 months of service covered by this subchapter; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5592BACDB99A44C690A6E418F992B413" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>former domestic
partner</term> includes a former domestic partner who was in a domestic
partnership with an employee or Member for less than 9 months and a former
domestic partner of an employee or Member who completed less than 18 months of
service covered by this
subchapter.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE52CF4E229C540989F27372F0ACDE32F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>a spouse or a former spouse</quote> each place it appears
and inserting <quote>a spouse or former spouse (or a domestic partner or former
domestic partner)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H352B2A94F6354254A719C84E6F962993"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="H281D1D9274AF4B1C8F754CA793F14B8F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (E), by striking <quote>dies or marries;</quote> and inserting
<quote>dies, marries, or enters into a domestic partnership;</quote>;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="H8808DBB9BD72419DAE2EA48A39B4A512"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
the matter following subparagraph (E)—</text>
<subclause id="H653D4FF25B1442C19B4999A700D619E8"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner or former domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse or former spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H9D1FC89352E0463DA8A29769931C0ABF"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>spouse, former spouse, or child</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse or
former spouse (or domestic partner or former domestic partner) or
child,</quote>; and</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF49B8A4230574F38881FFC0F6904C58A"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (4),
by striking <quote>marriage, then, if such marriage</quote> and inserting
<quote>marriage, then, if such marriage (or a domestic partnership, then, if
such domestic partnership)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFF202E5DE11441D5AAC143670C0156A7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (f) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF9CF4E096C5F49B49DBF04BD1A86DBE7" style="USC">
<subsection id="H8ACFD0BF917941D7BB25DE5DD304205E"><enum>(f)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a Member heretofore or hereafter
separated from the service with title to deferred annuity from the Fund
hereafter dies before having established a valid claim for annuity and is
survived by a spouse to whom married (or a domestic partner to whom in a
domestic partnership) at the date of separation, the surviving spouse (or
surviving partner)—</text>
<paragraph id="H7F56EF40214445FAA28699DCE43AE68E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is entitled to an annuity equal to 55
percent of the deferred annuity of the Member commencing on the day after the
Member dies and terminating on the last day of the month before the surviving
spouse dies or remarries (or the surviving domestic partner dies or enters into
a subsequent domestic partnership); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD95B8DF165934B3993278E33DC29A2BE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>may elect to
receive the lump-sum credit instead of annuity if the spouse (or domestic
partner) is the individual who would be entitled to the lump-sum credit and
files application therefor with the Office before the award of the
annuity.</text>
</paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">Notwithstanding the preceding
sentence, an annuity payable under this subsection to the surviving spouse (or
surviving domestic partner) of a Member may not exceed the difference
between—</continuation-text><paragraph id="HF563A908C1A848B392597D92A609D044"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the annuity which
would otherwise be payable to such surviving spouse (or such surviving domestic
partner) under this subsection, and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7B2A6A5DAE164F6C8D7CFB2355E017A0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the amount of the
survivor annuity payable to any former spouse (or any former domestic partner)
of such Member under subsection
(h).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4D8734B821AF40C588CEAA4B2B330BF6"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (g) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H383D550808744E69A4867A8B16B3CAD5" style="USC">
<subsection id="HE11953D48B494888B0989DECE058F88D"><enum>(g)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a surviving spouse (or
surviving domestic partner) whose annuity under this section is terminated
because of remarriage (or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership) before
becoming 55 years of age, annuity at the same rate shall be restored commencing
on the day the remarriage (or subsequent domestic partnership) is dissolved by
death, annulment, or divorce (or terminated), if—</text>
<paragraph id="HFC5FE8DCCC274C1F89C605B0825F68D5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the surviving spouse (or surviving domestic
partner) elects to receive this annuity instead of a survivor benefit to which
he may be entitled, under this subchapter or another retirement system for
Government employees, by reason of the remarriage (or subsequent domestic
partnership); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H59FF119198B94790887CD649A5FED5E4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any lump sum paid
on termination of the annuity is returned to the
Fund.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7C0B5D0523E74EAA9861071EEA08EC5E"><enum>(7)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (h) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB93F9C2DF81A43FD934F921D580876C8" style="USC">
<subsection id="H20642976CDD747E29C1D97FDF9AB3361"><enum>(h)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HE16713E6319F4916B85DE223542D21D2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraphs (2) through (5), a
former spouse (or former domestic partner) of a deceased employee, Member,
annuitant, or former Member who was separated from the service with title to a
deferred annuity under section 8338(b) is entitled to a survivor annuity under
this subsection, if and to the extent expressly provided for in an election
under section 8339(j)(3), or in the terms of any decree of divorce or annulment
or any court order or court-approved property settlement agreement incident to
such decree.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H67C49CFDEFFF4BA585435E6021E90F94" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HEF0BBC99D06C434198124482D62BE835"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The annuity payable to a former spouse (or
former domestic partner) under this subsection may not exceed the difference
between—</text>
<clause id="H4DA49EE5B019447DBA6B22C92E2F85A8" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the amount applicable in the case of
such former spouse (or former domestic partner), as determined under
subparagraph (B), and</text>
</clause><clause id="H0999530BC25A40CDB32DA913C34B00D0" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the amount of any annuity payable
under this subsection to any other former spouse (or former domestic partner)
of the employee, Member, or annuitant, based on an election previously made
under section 8339(j)(3), or a court order previously issued.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD887AB036E3A49299E000656E1404D23" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The applicable amount, for purposes of
subparagraph (A)(i) in the case of a former spouse (or former domestic
partner), is the amount which would be applicable—</text>
<clause id="HF860E6F693AF46C1973146589FE1D163"><enum>(i)</enum><text>under subsection (b)(4)(A) in the case
of a widow or widower (or surviving partner), if the deceased was an employee
or Member who died after retirement;</text>
</clause><clause id="H1AB895217EF24EBEB01F44CA39C2C996"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>under subparagraph (A) of subsection
(d) in the case of a widow or widower (or surviving partner), if the deceased
was an employee or Member described in the first sentence of such subsection;
or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HCF7A2DD693BA4694B727B44C9805F7D4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under subparagraph (A) of subsection (f) in
the case of a surviving spouse (or surviving domestic partner), if the deceased
was a Member described in the first sentence of such subsection.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H962249BF61DE4E44B5E53DD92B585B21" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The commencement and termination of an
annuity payable under this subsection shall be governed by the terms of the
applicable order, decree, agreement, or election, as the case may be, except
that any such annuity—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5FEA785D47CD4D3FA63FD6491EACDB55"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall not commence before—</text>
<clause id="H04D8446C7C9148118CB58A3C8A5EFBF7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the day after the employee, Member,
or annuitant dies, or</text>
</clause><clause id="HDB8FBF02B6E44BAD9C9E2C9C9F5F8B2E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the first day of the second month
beginning after the date on which the Office receives written notice of the
order, decree, agreement, or election, as the case may be, together with such
additional information or documentation as the Office may prescribe,</text>
</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">whichever is later, and</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H18640082D6D44B8FB87BA821A280F11F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall terminate—</text>
<clause id="HABE3C290272E4BF290CC129F115920E5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>except as provided in subsection
(k), in the case of an annuity computed by reference to clause (i) or (ii) of
paragraph (2)(B), no later than the last day of the month before the former
spouse remarries (or former domestic partner enters into a subsequent domestic
partnership) before becoming 55 years of age or dies; or</text>
</clause><clause id="HF0E1B5CA021F4712A05DB172C3A47CF1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of an annuity computed by
reference to clause (iii) of such paragraph, no later than the last day of the
month before the former spouse remarries or dies (or the former domestic
partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership or dies).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0A9F0FF7AECE48A4B675B3DCE9AEA884" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subchapter, a
modification in a decree, order, agreement, or election referred to in
paragraph (1) shall not be effective—</text>
<subparagraph id="HAC6E8C4E845540BFBFFF86B5067A91DC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>if such modification is made after the
retirement or death of the employee or Member concerned, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEF593D88B037449197EF66740864440E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to the extent that such modification
involves an annuity under this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFBBE831B05724FEE8439D3C0B1769B0F" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><text>For purposes of this subchapter, a
decree, order, agreement, or election referred to in paragraph (1) shall not be
effective, in the case of a former spouse (or former domestic partner), to the
extent that it is inconsistent with any joint designation or waiver previously
executed with respect to such former spouse (or former domestic partner) under
section 8339(j)(1) or a similar prior provision of law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9E6CB86F5D2A451D81B823736F9661A7" indent="up1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Any payment under this subsection to
a person bars recovery by any other person.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD8CCAE8F1C164134A2DB4EB167D193B9" indent="up1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>As used in this subsection,
<term>court</term> means any court of any State, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Virgin
Islands, and any Indian
court.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5C6154566B21406783DB8FAF13D07448"><enum>(8)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (i) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HCFFDC7AFF9BB42EB96E724398BF22858" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HC8DCF6B4A53F4F83B197DF323633BD8F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The requirement in
subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(2)(A), and (a)(5)(A) that the surviving spouse (or
surviving domestic partner) of an employee or Member have been married to (or
in a domestic partnership with) such employee or Member for at least 9 months
immediately before the employee’s or Member’s death in order to qualify as the
widow or widower (or surviving partner) of such employee or Member shall be
deemed satisfied in any case in which the employee or Member dies within the
applicable 9-month period, if—</text>
<paragraph id="HBC63C1497BDE4EE6965C785F688DF930"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the death of the
employee or Member was accidental; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H00635FA4210C4C4EB40525C3C02C9E77"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the surviving
spouse (or surviving domestic partner) of such individual had been previously
married to (or in a domestic partnership with) the individual that was
subsequently dissolved (or terminated), and the aggregate time married (or in a
domestic partnership) is at least 9
months.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8784892FE67043A19340473624430495"><enum>(9)</enum><text>by redesignating
subsection (k) as subsection (j) and amending such subsection to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H0CACB686700247A7B20051E3A2416282" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H270BA541FD0D472FA5550228FB04B5D6"><enum>(j)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H31F6D01D9C8F4B619ABDD5AE7067E780"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Subsections (b)(3)(B),
(d)(ii), and (h)(3)(B)(i), to the extent that they provide for termination of a
survivor annuity because of a remarriage (or entry into a subsequent domestic
partnership) before age 55, shall not apply if the widow, widower or former
spouse was married to (or the surviving partner or former domestic partner was
in a domestic partnership with) the individual on whose service the survivor
annuity is based for at least 30 years.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H695F24FE560549618DDF7AAF2378BBA3" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A remarriage (or entry into a
subsequent domestic partnership) described in paragraph (1) shall not be taken
into account for purposes of subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 8339(j)(5) or
any other provision of this chapter which the Director of the Office of
Personnel Management may by regulation identify in order to carry out the
purposes of this
subsection.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5F6ED7AEC8A049838447713565A3E07F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header>Lump-sum benefits;
designation of beneficiary; order of precedence</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8342 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8138F45DFB734BD288F5B079DDE6585E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote> ; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC30EB9580322430F85D31E850D9BCC93"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(j)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H67853FCAEEB14B5DA536652FD60666FD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(A), by inserting <quote>(or the domestic partner, if any, and any former
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>the spouse, if any, and any former
spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0B06FAD6B8764563887171B4486CD896"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner or
former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse or former spouse</quote>
each place it appears.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="H6FAD0FC9A3A34E9595E12B2FA7BCE69A"><enum>207.</enum><header>Alternative
forms of annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8343a is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA380775F422A47BB9627458B85A0EBA6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2), by inserting <quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote> after
<quote>married</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFB3D0C879B4C40AB80AB8B7CFCB58F31"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2)(B), by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H691511FEF6744B0087FC4AB4CFBBC871"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (e),
by inserting <quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote> after
<quote>married</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H4815669B008E419484210FDA5B4884DD"><enum>208.</enum><header>Administration;
regulations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8347(n)(1)(D) is amended by striking <quote>their spouses, and their former
spouses</quote> and inserting <quote>their spouses, domestic partners, former
spouses, and former domestic partners</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H2A4C6BA8578E46E891EA1748C6AE2953"><enum>209.</enum><header>Participation
in the Thrift Savings Plan</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8351(b)(5) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAD6A71716C5A4CD29A48CC98394A2415"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraphs
(A), (B), and (C), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6DD01DB43E6143129A980BEA7229C65C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by striking <quote>a married employee or Member</quote> and inserting
<quote>an employee or Member who is married (or in a domestic
partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0896C70226B14BDA85B4FFD0F7E84E16"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(D), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner or former domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse or former spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><enum>III</enum><header>Federal
Employees’ Retirement System</header>
<section id="H082C3479C70A4AE5B89AF3835FD0B3AD"><enum>301.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8401 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC137E659E676420994456613C71E5785"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (35),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H497D18188B2C4081B607D1E38090250F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (36),
by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H80CA9132DB6743C5BEA8EFDAEAA4CED8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H5B5121A00C2848929E1A2F5627A236BC" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H6D7FB81E7CAC4630A6453875B5652596"><enum>(37)</enum><text><term>former
domestic partner</term> means a former domestic partner of an
individual—</text>
<subparagraph id="H712C66727F8F4835A4859434996230CD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>if such individual
performed at least 18 months of civilian service creditable under section 8411
as an employee or Member; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBD152F74F01B46169AD8559F36231B00"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if the former
domestic partner was in a domestic partnership with such individual for at
least 9
months.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H03B753F62C1347018664C9927C1AFDF8"><enum>302.</enum><header>Creditable
service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8411 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC0CFEE1C0DC7419D8108F168290ADAFD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(4)(C)(ii), by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>former spouse</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3BB425469CF0435BBC324E89DC326527"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(l)(4)(B)(i), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H05614C11BC04439592DA1943F4578110"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(l)(5), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HBE03C9554D2B4E209FCF5FBD0DE54D76"><enum>303.</enum><header>Survivor
reduction for a current spouse or a current domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="H444269002E314758A04AED52E8541592"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8416 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAD5B8BEEF62D43F8A9ECB33863DF3529"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the heading, by
inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">or a current
domestic partner</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">spouse</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1B37175E26FD43128D42046E885883EF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HAA56DBD502474002B57B52B164BCC36D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote> each
place it appears;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEEF7BEA4DC614E029A80E31BC6710FF2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6C9DCF780CB4445B8587E303C6B1D5AC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner’s)</quote> after <quote>spouse’s</quote> each place
it appears;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H124A4C323A644175A85F4EF146A8BFBC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (b) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA795EA42BE4242B5A310CE0FD9650A50" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H752CCB9DB41F471B9BCD85EFD048B106"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H764C148EC53C4A5FBCDB9C5901EC52D3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Upon remarriage (or
entry into a subsequent domestic partnership), a retired employee or Member who
was married (or in a domestic partnership) at the time of retirement, including
an employee or Member whose annuity was not reduced to provide a survivor
annuity for the employee’s or Member’s spouse or former spouse (or domestic
partner or former domestic partner) as of the time of retirement, may
irrevocably elect during such marriage (or domestic partnership), in a signed
writing received by the Office—</text>
<subparagraph id="H06BB145034774AF4BF7928D8B0B0CB74" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>within 2 years after such remarriage
(or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership), or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB01C6945574F4208A594A018BB019D12" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if later, within 2 years after—</text>
<clause id="HEC38E13338274087AC26D5868C20CC4C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the death or remarriage of any
former spouse (or the death of or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership
by any former domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to
a survivor annuity under section 8445, or</text>
</clause><clause id="HF2528301AA1C41DD972F96E37971C588"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if there was more than 1, the death or
remarriage of the last such surviving former spouse (or the death of or entry
into a subsequent domestic partnership by the last such surviving former
domestic partner),</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">a
reduction in the employee’s or Member’s annuity under section 8419(a) for the
purpose of providing an annuity for such employee’s or Member’s spouse (or
domestic partner) in the event such spouse (or domestic partner) survives the
employee or Member.</continuation-text><paragraph id="H1F6D9A754992432E9355DC8C7A3C2EC0" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The election and reduction shall be
effective the first day of the second month after the election is received by
the Office, but not less than 9 months after the date of the remarriage (or
entry into the subsequent domestic partnership).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H070418D1A6F44CB99DBD62304ACE2318" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An election to provide a survivor annuity
to an individual under this subsection—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC1D45FD55DA04B8AAA292306874C0ABC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall prospectively void any election
made by the employee or Member under section 8420 with respect to such
individual; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1EE9C88E00824ACDA632190464236F16"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall, if an election was made by the
employee or Member under section 8420 with respect to a different individual,
prospectively void such election if appropriate written application is made by
such employee or Member at the time of making the election under this
subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC26B6CEF0AE94AD3B41A79D22D366B9B" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any election under this subsection made by
an employee or Member on behalf of an individual after the retirement of such
employee or Member shall not be effective if—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD5C61508C7914C33A54AD7EE8DDEA2C7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the employee or Member was married to
(or in a domestic partnership with) such individual at the time of retirement;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB2F279F1E17A4E22BCD4638AECE45CB1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the annuity rights of such individual
based on the service of such employee or Member were then waived under
subsection
(a).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H31FE1B4F483A4F6E970133C530266228"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H77AE4BECA0E443DD913E347230A038EB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the
matter before paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCDE6A412DFC941A4ABD1200E5E4C9FC1" style="USC">
<subsection id="H4A1170A47A2D4599AC5AF2A6CD9F9F0C"><enum>(c)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HFECDE7B164CB4AE18440A32478DDA2DD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>An employee or Member
who is unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership) at the time of retiring
under this chapter and who later marries (or enters into a domestic
partnership) may irrevocably elect, in a signed writing received by the
Office—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCEBC2F8DEA1E42D8A0800C3FB5D1AC8E" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>within 2 years after such employee or
Member marries (or enters into a domestic partnership), or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDEC160BFC1BA4B54AA549AB84F2D693D" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if later, within 2 years after—</text>
<clause id="H429862222B3F48F08AD53399FD0BCDA6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the death or remarriage of any
former spouse (or the death of or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership
by any domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a
survivor annuity under section 8445,</text>
</clause><clause id="H3C98E1925A1E449F9FD148067C0DF63B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if more than 1, the death or
remarriage of the last such surviving former spouse (or the death of or the
entry into a subsequent domestic partnership by the last such surviving
domestic partner),</text>
</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">a
reduction in the current annuity of the retired employee or Member, in
accordance with section 8419(a).</continuation-text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H811FF26C738C4554B439AB2A05F52392"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>marriage.</quote> and inserting <quote>marriage (or domestic
partnership).</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H66F345B06E9E4424ACF42A39D62A5779"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H097B170721CC4823AE01D5C411CD17D9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6074DC0DA2D64DC2B45BEAB67B90B03D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H5DCB4718DCF847939B9DEA66D4AFF1D7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter 84, is amended by
striking the item relating to section 8416 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H37DA690081704933AB84E1DE3B3DF632" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">8416. Survivor reduction for a current
spouse or a current domestic
partner.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H6562D531931249E9AB37D1199DD97F37"><enum>304.</enum><header>Survivor
reduction for a former spouse or former domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="H69CD8B72AEE04D7EB3985A66AF7C1C26"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8417 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0B373CCC964746DB810E17F494901934"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the heading, by
inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">or a former
domestic partner</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">former spouse</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB894401728994EC98D1D125B7E3AC482"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by inserting <quote>(or a former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6625394CE7754042B279D5DE94364E15"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3A039BFF99164A2A8F50F4BCE5B1A70F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote> each place it appears;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBA573EE3834040D9A11B256819CCFC7F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (2) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HCCC4C3AF9D054DEAB563D593755DCB78" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H268712041D7C41CFB61538DD796DC2EB" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An election under this subsection shall be
made at the time of retirement or, if the marriage is dissolved (or the
domestic partnership is terminated) after the date of retirement, within 2
years after the date on which the marriage of the former spouse to the employee
or Member is so dissolved (or the domestic partnership of the former domestic
partner with the employee or Member is so
terminated).</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H20C7DFD7FB5C4B709A8F7B0CD62721D0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="HE73F5F3BBA1749BCB2AB51FD2DEFF271"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting <quote>(or a surviving partner)</quote>
after <quote>a widow or widower</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H817C411F155E4DBE88CD8F059CDEFF43"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HED4129BDD1FD4EF89AB570F0D1F32312" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="HFED244C263774EE5A37A2B6572B6250B" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall not be effective, in the case of
an employee or Member who is then married (or in a domestic partnership),
unless it is made with the spouse’s (or domestic partner’s) written
consent.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H95704E51E683417ABB842ECE7DE33E01"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter 84 of title 5, United
States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 8417 and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2B794D037A504DCAAA3C14A9140CB4EB" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">8417. Survivor reduction for a former
spouse or a former domestic partner.
</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H626C495EDC90403F8C8955047568941F"><enum>305.</enum><header>Survivor
elections; deposit; offsets</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8418(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H44A72892CD5E473A96E4C36461BE07A5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>marriage</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7CF96B8FBF27466A8236F8B99FEB80D2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>former spouse.</quote> and inserting <quote>former spouse (or former
domestic partner).</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HE8978F00B4EA47C6A5AD764310A48D87"><enum>306.</enum><header>Survivor
reductions; computation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8419 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB1105167870F4F96AFA8729B54CCBE39"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>
each place it appears; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3A37C3E702384F56B9E611790CDEFB42"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (b) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H71F3CAD648E44FA9917287AF09C07063" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H0835B99E34DD478091703027D1A60C07"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HDC99CE9361264C93ABCED0A9AFDA1B46"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Any reduction in an
annuity for the purpose of providing a survivor annuity for the current spouse
(or current domestic partner) of a retired employee or Member shall be
terminated for each full month—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2EE8B691B56840CBB070DC4B94221F88" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>after the death of the spouse (or
domestic partner); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE9E0ABEBC5844E02942FEBF3EAE20C4C" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>after the dissolution of the spouse’s
marriage to (or the termination of the domestic partner’s domestic partnership
with) the employee or Member, except that an appropriate reduction shall be
made thereafter if the spouse (or domestic partner) is entitled, as a former
spouse (or former domestic partner), to a survivor annuity under section
8445.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H80DCAEADB41C49CAA54B911F73187DDB" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any reduction in an annuity for the purpose
of providing a survivor annuity for a former spouse (or former domestic
partner) of a retired employee or Member shall be terminated for each full
month after the former spouse remarries (or the former domestic partner enters
into a subsequent domestic partnership) before reaching age 55 or dies. This
reduction shall be replaced by appropriate reductions under subsection (a) if
the retired employee or Member has—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF45DEAF2E60943E99C300347314A34F6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>another former spouse (or former
domestic partner) who is entitled to a survivor annuity under section
8445;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H55434C11858F47B18B946A1A9B1451CE"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a
current spouse to whom the employee or Member was married (or a current
domestic partner with whom the employee or Member was in a domestic
partnership) at the time of retirement and with respect to whom a survivor
annuity was not waived under section 8416(a) or, if waived, with respect to
whom an election under section 8416(d) has been made; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H087C83740CF44CCAA1DBFF55F1BA00F2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a
current spouse whom the employee or Member married (or current domestic partner
with whom the employee or Member entered into a domestic partnership) after
retirement and with respect to whom an election has been made under subsection
(b) or (c) of section
8416.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HD0FF706600CB4AF6989197A69F43163B"><enum>307.</enum><header>Insurable
interest reductions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8420 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA739BA3B4C744961B814421647B47DEA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2A404E50D9FE4C1BBCC4C0B25DC72724"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>married employee or Member</quote> and inserting <quote>employee or
Member who is married (or in a domestic partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1BF4E08ACF3B4EE39BFBE35B63F55053"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H02E234CC78CC4224AED35B24F67A8756"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2), by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>former spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HF86AB5B17FA84CDD9C690CEE7AA44F67"><enum>308.</enum><header>Alternative
forms of annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8420a is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HD87B90A95ADE4611BF4607EF51077A2E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H31A88DBFB50142398D1C6045B2821CC6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter
before subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>(or in a domestic
partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE431975525584E23932DD33866280491"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by striking <quote>surviving spouse.</quote> and inserting
<quote>surviving spouse (or surviving domestic partner).</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB0A9F859B73148FEA2427107FFFFDDA3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H433CD00052514CB994F735FF48173042"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>married,</quote> and inserting <quote>married (or in a
domestic partnership),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H64248A5D2EF74819BF92597AF3E22F9E"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by inserting <quote>(or
former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former spouse</quote> each place
it appears; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD929F97F8919493E88C37678EC0AEB69"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (e),
by inserting <quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote> after
<quote>married</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HEA31C7CD37F248E5879FA12DB8C7791A"><enum>309.</enum><header>Lump-sum
benefits; designation of beneficiary; order of precedence</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8424 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HAAB44805DD9A4358ABD9940AD0B6A83C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF40EF999784A4D75BCE3ED11BCB9019A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H21D490E4ADD44F6B93558AA220EEFE1D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>the spouse, if any, and any former
spouse</quote> and inserting <quote>any spouse or former spouse (and any
domestic partner or former domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H938FDD4BD2C84B3486EB3D7A94A3AA2F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>spouse or former spouse</quote> each place
it appears and inserting <quote>spouse or former spouse (or domestic partner or
former domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C11F7864D9C4670BA666D39D7C63FAC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>spouse or former spouse</quote> each place it appears and
inserting <quote>spouse or former spouse (or domestic partner or former
domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFD5B641212F1451FBD5CDF4C99E67D43"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d),
by striking <quote>widow or widower</quote> and inserting <quote>widow or
widower (or surviving partner)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H7CDC339B845D42C395486AF5858F4E14"><enum>310.</enum><header>Annuities:
methods of payment; election; purchase</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8434(a)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HDC7994AF03F64DFD8EE30B3AF9AE3EC3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4B510AF6E57E4AE793F16BADBEB4710C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(E)(i), by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>former spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HA155DBCA90EE433A9AF01CE350251BCF"><enum>311.</enum><header>Protections for
spouses, domestic partners, former spouses, and former domestic
partners</header>
<subsection id="HBE1E91315FAC4E72BA33E00A9EC98AB2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8435 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8F3A2DB2B0894E2FA35DD6108FC29EC0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the heading, by
striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">spouses and former
spouses</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">spouses, domestic partners, former spouses, and
former domestic partners</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCF07E33389F84BD79D868F60C9DA5BF2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5AFC8B1B04814C14B2A496D55CFCF552"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H7162B515AE184FF7A881D54693D73956"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>A married employee or Member (or former
employee or Member)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>An
employee or Member, or former employee or former Member, who is married (or in
a domestic partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HF321C6FFA40941CC892DA38DCA0F7976"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (B), by inserting <quote>or domestic partner</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBD7CBEB8B5D94458995D729CF06951B1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner’s)</quote> after
<quote>spouse’s</quote> each place it appears;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3BA3909795D14A7CB0AFE4211FF2B482"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H712574743F84437DAD88BA27E93FAB12"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H9582E4571F1B439EA4FE6111B4A285EA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H6849A6E74C914DAF9079FBFDEA21E463"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote> after
<quote>married</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H234F7A2DE0A74883801F28E352767D78"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(A), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H8C8C434783014B7F9E547502787A70BE"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE63205CAAC76437B91C07A6E50593156"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote> the first 2 places it appears;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H825A8AC6236843419D1064B4595A3CA9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraphs (3)
through (6), by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>former spouse</quote> each place it appears;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEFB15463B3B545D4A5723435D8798420"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)(B), by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partners)</quote> after
<quote>former spouses</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0DB611E489E5435DA8E4A3A974223FEF"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)(A), by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6A205D9678F140059C1FE9CD45DC6123"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H99A930453DE844D6B80FB7817B8B5D3C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the
matter before subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEAB87AE770BE4F9F93576BA36B3A954B" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H3811C44EF520404F98DA248AE2481572"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HAFF86F922EDF4AC2AC9770D7ED1383F9"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HE3980EE0DC8C4CBFA7CC3BFEBD8D46EE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A loan or withdrawal under subsection (g)
or (h) of section 8433 may be made to an employee or Member who is married (or
in a domestic partnership) only if the employee's or Member’s spouse (or
domestic partner) consents to such loan or withdrawal in
writing.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9E8C4D09ECFE426B86D1E9BD88C19278"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(C), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner’s)</quote> after
<quote>spouse’s</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H9E464AE77576457DADABEA23EF9C8968"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (g),
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner or former domestic partner)</quote>
after <quote>spouse or former spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6A5AB0AAFE8A4AA98649A4811F4C112B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter 84 is amended by
striking the item relating to section 8435 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1D42D8553A984F5AAC359D2ABA9A6BAC" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">8435. Protections for spouses, domestic
partners, former spouses, and former domestic
partners.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="HB1F30667065242D0896C420871C91653"><enum>312.</enum><header>Justices and
judges</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8440a(b)(6) is
amended by inserting <quote>(or domestic partners)</quote> after
<quote>spouses</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H2A09B7BE1D164EF9BA05DCF74C5B8915"><enum>313.</enum><header>Survivor
annuities: definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8441 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HEE6926B1FEFA4E0CADCA369BF41CCCC9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively, and by
inserting after paragraph (2) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9A52F8CE0DD045818762BFDB410A48AC" style="USC">
<paragraph id="H9BFB564385ED45CA9AB6526CC8E920CA"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>surviving partner</term>
means the surviving domestic partner of an employee, Member, or annuitant, or
of a former employee or Member, who—</text>
<subparagraph id="H72773324474A416E8C523F5EC380BB4F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">was in a domestic partnership with such
employee, Member, or annuitant, or former employee or Member, for at least 9
months immediately before the death of such employee, Member, or annuitant, or
former employee or Member; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE200A8012A9E41F9AE4632FFC7F4A64D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>satisfies such
other requirement, based on parenthood, as the Office of Personnel Management
shall by regulation prescribe based on the definition of a widow or widower
under this
section;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC722A1EF6A2A43918F432F7EB9A1D377"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)
(as so redesignated by paragraph (1))—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF0D647EBEAA94F3596F2AF9304336A38"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2F5EBD50F71E49A5BF963664BEAE32D5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF567B252F67D42DD8EC755595EE12D89" style="USC">
<quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="section">The Office
shall prescribe regulations to provide that, for purposes of applying the
provisions of paragraph (5)(A)(ii) (relating to the treatment of a stepchild)
in the case of a domestic partnership, rules similar to those prescribed to
carry out section 8901(5)(B) in similar circumstances shall
apply.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HB0666B2911194952A478E867D46CB72B"><enum>314.</enum><header>Rights of a
widow, widower, or surviving partner</header>
<subsection id="H4DA9537B6CDF4571BF5DF8642AC7FF38"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8442 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9F958D055D124658B4F582F7F53A71F2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the heading, by
striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">widow or
widower</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">widow, widower, or surviving
partner</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCA1F008AF93C4D09BB39DEBEA874E20E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB2C23AC4E0AD494394CE2636D673104E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>
each place it appears;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDE864F84B5B94F44A35EAEEDFFFFF02A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(B), by inserting <quote>(or entry into a domestic partnership)</quote>
after <quote>marriage</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD14B56E216B84C0CA37E11D489508421"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>
each place it appears;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEAFA556FA4F54DEAB1FCF6E9DEE99CD1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote> each place it appears;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H29D394FA04704C5D84CE1CD2065FDDAA"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC8CD82002C8F45079B061E8D79FCBC34"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), (in the matter before
subparagraph (A)), by inserting <quote>(or a surviving partner with whom in a
domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>widow or widower to whom
married</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7E314B31D8EC42788203A17A8CF6E56B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>widow or widower</quote> each place it appears (other than where amended
by subparagraph (A)) and inserting <quote>widow or widower (or surviving
partner)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD23BB855E78346C08F213712D37B23B2"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDAA062D645CE44A082C469C00BC0A69C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>widow or widower</quote> each place it appears and inserting
<quote>widow or widower (or surviving partner)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H180C52C6DBA84F09BC63D9FD830B45F9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(B), by inserting <quote>(or enters into a subsequent domestic
partnership)</quote> after <quote>remarries</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF19D86F5DCA04EC5ACC2A5BF94C03410"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="HED0064220BE14C098B98C30790F3F875"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>remarriage before</quote> and inserting <quote>remarriage (or
entry into a subsequent domestic partnership) before</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="H217CD0F919554488B739E0CF26D71EE9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>remarriage is dissolved by death, divorce, or
annulment,</quote> and inserting <quote>remarriage is dissolved by death,
divorce, annulment (or subsequent domestic partnership is terminated),</quote>;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="HDB0105F2FEB844D9BC7D4CA312D22EB6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in
subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>remarriage;</quote> and inserting
<quote>remarriage (or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership);</quote>;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4FE2B12C71A84E3894B133AEFA0F4933"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="HE52BFB6C12684523AB7B64B99470A4E9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership</quote> after
<quote>remarriage</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HF50D2B3E188048DBB1ECB58F4DAE357D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or in a domestic partnership for at least 30 years
with)</quote> after <quote>married for at least 30 years to</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H76D4CB28EE154F2288141111A1786687"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HAF81D778BE554F44B628E3B2ABA0090E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>
each place it appears;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9DA1997061644CB1BC66EA8D9018ADBA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or in a domestic partnership with)</quote> after <quote>been married
to</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD15D0DA819504A52AAD1A3F7D7181DEC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (2) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HA4447A4DAA7B443F8A740EF6440202A2" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HCB1F426044B44099B71A8A4781D14ECA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the surviving
spouse (or surviving domestic partner) of such individual had been previously
married to (or in a domestic partnership with) the individual that was
subsequently dissolved (or terminated), and the aggregate time married (or in a
domestic partnership) is at least 9
months.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB4F7CCC19CED47CBAE6B70219F915F9F"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in subsection (g),
by striking <quote>widow or widower</quote> and inserting <quote>widow,
widower, or surviving partner</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H113B32919F884454B357E3A6ABED2435"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in subsection
(h)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD9383B0073974EA0BFDC7505D55AF311"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>widow or widower</quote> each place it appears and inserting
<quote>widow or widower (or surviving partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HACCDFF25C32A41E9A997E8368C17F94E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former spouse</quote>
each place it appears.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4403AABEF32C49D294DB00194A6C571A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter 84 is amended by
striking the item relating to section 8442 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0F370602264C4B8BA3F94FB9E401F119" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">8442. Rights of a widow, widower, or
surviving
partner.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H237E7087426F4876A1B3E05F0B8354EF"><enum>315.</enum><header>Rights of a
former spouse or former domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="H0636229247114FA1854D6209280D4DA4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8445 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H530FC276FDD24CF59DFCC0171187B9E4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the heading, by
striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">former
spouse</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">former spouse or former domestic
partner</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3D658FF804CD493BAA544D4815C30CEF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H41018D2DEF664642A3686B941D1C74F7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H687DF0B127D44723882A7695A3CC0689"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former spouse</quote>
each place it appears; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H95D95AA13D3647498F8234A9D16049E8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDE529373D4844B32860ADEA605217F6C"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(2), by inserting <quote>(or the former domestic partner enters into a
subsequent domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>former spouse
remarries</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H52570244A4AD4AB3BB67E20015772CB3"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (e),
by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7F380B77ECBA48F6973364C70BE04ECB"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (h) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H18AD168722B544C4B1661D21ED27A06A" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H4DE005846B794E2C9220E8B8DF97C5C5"><enum>(h)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HA120F50EEA4B457D847D01565EAA3D2D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Subsection (c)(2), to
the extent that it provides for termination of a survivor annuity because of a
remarriage (or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership) before age 55,
shall not apply if the former spouse (or former domestic partner) was married
to (or in a domestic partnership with) the individual on whose service the
survivor annuity is based for at least 30 years.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB7FA129F3819429BA535366A5FE45DB4" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A remarriage (or entry into a
subsequent domestic partnership) described in paragraph (1) shall not be taken
into account for purposes of section 8419(b)(1)(B) or any other provision of
this chapter which the Director may by regulation identify in order to carry
out the purposes of this
subsection.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC18A2082842A4869AA8595D912E8E426"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical
amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter 84 is amended by
striking the item relating to section 8445 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFC9E30BA6D594FDFAAE1D7369A2B04EE" style="USC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">8445. Rights of a former spouse or former
domestic
partner.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H55F0D2BC26444050AD19923E5AE4DB43"><enum>316.</enum><header>Authority of
the Office of Personnel Management</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8461(j)(1)(D) is amended by striking
<quote>such employees, their spouses, their former spouses, and their
survivors</quote> and inserting <quote>such employees and their spouses,
domestic partners, former spouses, former domestic partners, and
survivors</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="HD58CD32023A74B78949C2999522F794A"><enum>317.</enum><header>Cost-of-living
adjustments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8462(c) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H05166C0CD96A4F73AC5C88105883D9DA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>survivor (other than a widow or widower whose annuity is
computed under section 8442(g) or a child under section 8443)</quote> and
inserting the following: <quote>survivor, other than a widow or widower (or
surviving partner) whose annuity is computed under section 8442(g) or a child
under section 8443,</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7FA27B33403649F4B998D9B8F6B7A265"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4)
(in the matter before subparagraph (A)), by inserting <quote>(or surviving
partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H690B71B21F104E9DAFAE86310368E990"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph
(4)(B)(i), by inserting <quote>(or surviving partner’s)</quote> after
<quote>widow’s or widower’s</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HAEE487CC73424621AD09DF3600C01E15"><enum>318.</enum><header>Fiduciary
responsibilities; liability and penalties</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8477(a)(4)(F) is amended to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H6BC9B7688FFF4A52835EB80C6A113162" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H01985D3445CD45F0B81BE6A2B43C28D0"><enum>(F)</enum><text>a spouse (or
domestic partner), sibling, ancestor, lineal descendant, or spouse (or domestic
partner) of a lineal descendant of a person described in subparagraph (A), (B),
or
(D);</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>IV</enum><header>Insurance
benefits</header>
<section id="HBF3F369848B348E6A33A7496327C856B"><enum>401.</enum><header>Life
insurance</header>
<subsection id="H48A2817DCF1840BBBBC0E18976D615B7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 87 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H65D77D37ADF844D4AA87DE2785DC0C93"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8701(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H86DD5C7AE81946BC9329DED37FE165E6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(A), by inserting <quote>or domestic partner</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HD27BE640EBBD4DB4B5C5CFE517D711CF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H78BBC5283FF14470B9528096E5F28A04" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H7CE9431CC0A249F4BD640F81AB8A8287" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual whose domestic
partner has a child by a previous marriage, domestic partnership (as defined
under regulations of the Office of Personnel Management), or otherwise, such
child shall, unless adopted by such individual, be treated as a stepchild of
such
individual.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H178D1205F24B46D9925839826C7B8089"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section
8705(a), by inserting <quote>or surviving domestic partner</quote> after
<quote>widow or widower</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H71E945E6ADC34473ACFDD012CDA1EC5C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in section
8714c(b)(1)(A), by striking <quote>spouse;</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse
or domestic partner;</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HC057AB141CB94180B3C9AE10098133E9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect
to calendar years beginning after the end of the 6-month period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H64EC169A12034ACABB26E1C607541319"><enum>402.</enum><header>Health
insurance</header>
<subsection id="H302507A25DFB4EF5BB663110CE81047D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8901 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HDDFBB4955F414170A89A8E0E8C83EBDC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)
(in the matter before subparagraph (A)), by inserting <quote>or domestic
partner</quote> after <quote>the spouse</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF8D259AEC929409DBC2EA737038BCEB6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(8)(B), by striking <quote>or former spouses,</quote> and inserting
<quote>former spouses, or former domestic partners,</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCEB53EFCFBF54AA295962E55224D8A5A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (10), by redesignating paragraph
(11) as paragraph (12), and by inserting after paragraph (10) the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H212CAD7453DC40A8B84992186E204EAA" style="USC">
<paragraph id="H5066B916C0BA4B8DBAF443B27362F8B3"><enum>(11)</enum><text><term>former
domestic partner</term> means a domestic partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8863955255F6436B931EE3D97F9D33B8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>whose domestic
partnership with an employee, former employee, or annuitant has
terminated,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBCC8952B0531452A8BB45F44884647B4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>who has not
entered into another domestic partnership before age 55 after the domestic
partnership to the employee, former employee, or annuitant was
terminated,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA18EC628D67A4E6EAB911B1FC0969554"><enum>(C)</enum><text>who was enrolled
in an approved health benefits plan under this chapter as a family member at
any time during the 18-month period before the date of the termination of the
domestic partnership to the employee, former employee, or annuitant, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAD4AAAFEEA2A4329BC6AC125FD751911"><enum>(D)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H927EA443F9F74732B5A4F3DE4D1A319E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who is receiving any
portion of a survivor annuity under section 8341(h) or 8445 (or benefits
similar to either of the aforementioned annuity benefits under a retirement
system for Government employees other than the Civil Service Retirement System
or the Federal Employees’ Retirement System),</text>
</clause><clause id="H88A8D20324CE4289AEBED4E1A05E66EB" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for whom an election has been made
under section 8339(j)(3) or 8417(b) (or similar provision of law), or</text>
</clause><clause id="HF76D654A9D46496AA380E69AD4E1B91C" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>who is otherwise entitled to an
annuity or any portion of an annuity as a former domestic partner under a
retirement system for Government employees,</text>
</clause></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">except
that such term shall not include any such former domestic partner, who has not
entered into another domestic partnership, of a former employee whose domestic
partnership was terminated after the former employee’s separation from the
service (other than by retirement); and</continuation-text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H579C18B9BE92466491D6576EC864671F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding after
paragraph (12) (as so redesignated by paragraph (3)), as a flush left sentence,
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF2D02C788D604175A5C3DF21F7357987" style="OLC">
<quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="section">For purposes
of paragraph (5), in the case of an employee or annuitant whose domestic
partner has a child by a previous marriage, domestic partnership (as defined
under regulations of the Office of Personnel Management), or otherwise, such
child shall, unless adopted by such individual, be treated as a stepchild of
such
individual.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H48A32C45388A423A8468940915D4B076"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contracting
authority</header><text>Section 8902 is amended in subsections (g), (j), and
(k)(1), by inserting <quote>former domestic partner,</quote> after
<quote>former spouse,</quote> each place it appears.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H7A3DBBC9A6B14513B4100C9403C67BAB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Debarment and
other sanctions</header><text>Section 8902a(a)(1)(B) is amended by striking
<quote>or former spouse</quote> and inserting <quote>former spouse, or former
domestic partner</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB1F15F4537E546259A36806A037F8AB2"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Health benefits
plans</header><text>Section 8903(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB17D7063B94F4C0782D47C89D4AD038F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>former domestic partners,</quote> after <quote>former spouses,</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1BF142C743C84FDD809B29B83F18BD89"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>former domestic partner,</quote> after <quote>former
spouse,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H88E08094CFCA41D28E4ACCA1268344C2"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Election of
coverage</header><text>Section 8905 is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H6ACE8BAEF4D54728B2F0D2C802B64603"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H40271FC2D40C442FBD7AC6E089BE3CE8" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="HD307D977B59C431EBFA22DDC9D9B44E2" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Office shall prescribe regulations to
ensure that, in the administration of this subsection, parity of treatment is
afforded—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H061052B1DD79421EB907ECD18BF47B01"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to former spouses and former domestic
partners; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H87F66B3680A84E1BB53D2ED5750766E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to the children of a marriage that has
been dissolved and the children of a domestic partnership that has been
terminated.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8045B6377B8A4DCA9F704B3F60B827AE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA1B1EB6507094BDA8F82B4BA0737F343"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>or domestic partner</quote> after <quote>has a spouse</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF2B7C4EC4454407789B73E7B92D58934"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>either spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>either spouse or domestic
partner,</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H82C24EB08BE44BCF9C6358C0F01CBEE9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsections (f)
and (g), by inserting <quote>former domestic partner,</quote> after
<quote>former spouse,</quote> each place it appears.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H3614D660FD314CC8B3EB9144694951D7"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Continued
coverage</header><text>Section 8905a is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H71BE01FB1FD44077A739961E8AA04F86" style="USC">
<subsection commented="no" id="HE27CE177FF3E44DDA3FBF91E8DF6B46E"><enum>(g)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Office shall prescribe regulations to
ensure that, in the administration of this section, parity of treatment is
afforded—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HF5D4A960D258469489395733114DE3E0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to former spouses
and former domestic partners; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HD0BDBC9CA01043AF9046D51FA7D7D170"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to the children of a marriage that has been
dissolved and the children of a domestic partnership that has been
terminated.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HC1C47F5F3AA648939BF6C07939CAD2F5"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Coverage of
restored employees and survivor or disability annuitants</header><text>Section
8908(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9DB47F45A37B4626BFF938FFDC16769A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>or surviving domestic partner</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC31F30E535C447B882C61FD6A3A58BC7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>or a subsequent domestic partnership</quote> after <quote>because of
remarriage</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HAD237515F3D34264B1A4E48931B74E2E"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Section
8913(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE5BE1AAC7558449D8EC75B4B15133DF7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and former spouses</quote> and inserting <quote>former spouses, and
former domestic partners</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H81DD6AC2D5AB41FE96567FFB977AD1FC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>annuitant or former spouse</quote> and inserting <quote>annuitant,
former spouse, or former domestic partner</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H4D0CD2E0F8B0409DBA0B4041D0E2521C"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect
to contract years beginning after the end of the 6-month period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H7E4C5FA86D854440A534D29B4591F73F"><enum>403.</enum><header>Enhanced dental
benefits</header>
<subsection id="H60D128A692764F5EB069A6CE522ADED4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 89A is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE349837DD5F148DE9F880645A010F1BE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8956(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4060108352F14D2F9C3097ADE584AAAC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>or domestic partner</quote> after <quote>a spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H770B67A5B69542038839B19B95CE23BB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>either spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>either spouse or either
domestic partner (as the case may be),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC65B016A9A6A49199EE51581EB454CDF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 8957,
by inserting <quote>surviving domestic partner,</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H861942EF93744CC1AEA38AAB3F213F6B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect
to contract years beginning after the end of the 6-month period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HDDCCF50AA5074793893CD705F7DA6467"><enum>404.</enum><header>Enhanced vision
benefits</header>
<subsection id="H664EB4016F90460BB1FD0B65AFFAF345"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 89B is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HBC0FAA9BD87A45D1B9DE69434ABC4CE3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8986(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1CC013DED82348BBA1DE7A3183DD5698"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>or domestic partner</quote> after <quote>a spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9479096A29344ADC81A206FBF778D1C6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>either spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>either spouse or either
domestic partner (as the case may be),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA5DD865984A64B22B5A53F15CD22C567"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 8987,
by inserting <quote>surviving domestic partner,</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H679EA360A6BB4596A2EA829BF3738259"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect
to contract years beginning after the end of the 6-month period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HDA78A632C14E4A758DCBC74FB1E80FBC"><enum>405.</enum><header>Long-term care
insurance</header>
<subsection id="H195F3BDB7FC34EA888A3EB954EB50641"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 90 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H327441ABE601434FA34469BF80FA620E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
9001(5)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HE3771384F08A4231BB929D9FEB8927AC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by striking <quote>or (4).</quote> and inserting <quote>or (4) (and the
domestic partner of an individual described in paragraph (1), (2), or (4) or of
an individual who satisfies paragraph (3) by virtue of having been appointed to
a position in the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service or the
commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration).</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFF8D253D4042445EBA9920A958E186D3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(C), by inserting <quote>or of the domestic partner of such an
individual,</quote> after <quote>(4),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5156E75BED714B138F7759DD1C6A2E8A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section
9002(e)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H335DAB63EB014010BE301AA81A0E0A2F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the heading, by
striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Spousal
parity</header-in-text></quote> and inserting the following:
<quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Parity for spouse or
domestic partner</header-in-text></quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H85A5B87D223C4781B42967FAD0A588BD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>or domestic partner</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HE7BF120CE9E94EB085F44475F990B430"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect
to calendar years beginning after the end of the 6-month period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header>Travel,
transportation, and subsistence</header>
<section commented="no" id="H4DC286E1A8EE436D89EA957C8DFB3BD9"><enum>501.</enum><header>Reimbursement
for taxes incurred on money received for travel expenses</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="HE92FC1A3A316485CB786B6516611531D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5706c is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H7E1CBA7F91DD4EC88A14AE8E703E8B82"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by striking <quote>by an employee and such employee’s spouse (if filing
jointly),</quote> and inserting <quote>by an employee and such employee’s
spouse (or, where allowable, such employee’s domestic partner), if filing
jointly, </quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H4E5DAA56F63B4372B8EF907693565D1B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b),
by striking <quote>employee and spouse, as the case may be,</quote> and
inserting <quote>employee and spouse (or domestic partner), as the case may
be</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H83BB0B0D108048FD9EFFDBD118A2A483"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect
to taxable years beginning after the end of the 6-month period beginning on the
date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H084DE528D4854F268291B4F508E23DB4"><enum>502.</enum><header>Relocation
expenses of employees transferred or reemployed</header>
<subsection id="H8FCE2E44B7DE4E59836291CEC54A287E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section
5724a(b)(1)(A) is amended by striking <quote>employee’s spouse</quote> and
inserting <quote>employee’s spouse (or domestic partner)</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HC7A4ECBA729A4F84A53D3F26102BB0B5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendment made by this section shall apply with respect
to expenses incurred after the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date
of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" id="HA403BC2DC7E147519FA8AC9EA1FE1A6E"><enum>503.</enum><header>Taxes on
reimbursements for travel, transportation, and relocation expenses of employees
transferred</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H938B17F70AB246F19DA82E93D7C9AF0F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5724b(a) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H973111610DC14BC98FCC78396DE7DC09"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>by an employee and such
employee’s spouse (if filing jointly),</quote> and inserting <quote>by an
employee and such employee’s spouse (or, where allowable, such employee’s
domestic partner), if filing jointly,</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HD62E5C9D94DC4438B5D4C7F8F5148362"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>employee and spouse, as the case may be,</quote> and inserting
<quote>employee and spouse (or domestic partner), as the case may
be,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H470212E0EE794C73B6C8731BA25D8848"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect
to taxable years beginning after the end of the 6-month period beginning on the
date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H797672F4D2CA4A20891AFB942F687DE0"><enum>504.</enum><header>Relocation
expenses of an employee who is performing an extended assignment</header>
<subsection id="HAB97D491158848C989053CE75F5034DB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5737(a)(4) is
amended by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>employee
and spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H93EF455443DC411FA49B7C9CE3729165"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by
this section shall apply with respect to expenses incurred after the end of the
6-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Compensation for
work injuries</header>
<section id="H623F7F2410E649808C260D16EAF2254D"><enum>601.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8101 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA79A59F269534C16B9FE0442A0A9DA4C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (9),
by inserting <quote>children (including adopted children) of a domestic
partner,</quote> after <quote>adopted children,</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1BA3B6A14F8C4E6FB206A487CF480595"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (19),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H32D57D786F6743C2A4C00822CF431757"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (20),
by striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4E55F09039564DC2B4CA9EF73AC0D5D6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding after
paragraph (20) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5B72E15316A4DB6925289CFF6442CB0" style="USC">
<paragraph id="HED8660CEFFDB400D95D62843150E0144"><enum>(21)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> means an individual who is in a domestic partnership with
another individual of the same sex, as determined by the Secretary of Labor for
purposes of this subchapter pursuant to regulations issued by the Secretary, in
consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management,
consistent with the requirements that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H42ADB44A3E0646898AF4698B9CC3A4D8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>both individuals
are at least 18 years of age and competent to contract;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB4646BFE82354EBC8E64040BE57C41F7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>both individuals
intend to remain in the domestic partnership indefinitely;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6445D48ED1E342A3A9DF5ABE903BC08B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>such
individuals—</text>
<clause id="HC2BF62ACFD114F0ABA1E260FA0B14CC0"><enum>(i)</enum><text>have a common
residence; or</text>
</clause><clause id="HB80835DF2B0942E1A2D65CAEE72ACD1E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>do not have a
common residence because of financial, employment-related, or other
reasons;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBDA6E167A7574190AB1A10449CA9F38C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>neither individual
is married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone outside of the domestic
partnership referred to in subparagraph (B);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCD6288122960464892D05DA0874CD88A"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the 2 individuals
share responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s common welfare
and financial obligations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2E2520F24ACE43D0B034A5A3D57000A5"><enum>(F)</enum><text>the 2 individuals
are not related in a way that, if they were of the opposite sex, would prohibit
legal marriage in the jurisdiction in which either of them resides;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H01C9DA58DD8D42139F762A9F94A0D1A5"><enum>(G)</enum><text>at least 1 of them
is an employee or an individual otherwise eligible for coverage under this
subchapter based on such individual’s employment or other service; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD9B2C585ED9C4753A70EF705747CAFC1"><enum>(H)</enum><text>both individuals
understand that willful falsification of information within the affidavit or
failure to provide appropriate notification of the termination of the domestic
partnership may lead to the recovery of the amounts obtained as a result of
such falsification or failure (as the case may be), criminal or other
penalties, and (in appropriate circumstances) disciplinary action; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H16C6582706E247ACAF6A6B0C4F4FA7E5"><enum>(22)</enum><text><term>surviving
partner</term> means the domestic partner living with or dependent for support
on the decedent at the time of his or her death, or living apart for reasonable
cause or because of his or her
desertion.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H407549DEE3AC491CA929AB0EF61CBCE3"><enum>602.</enum><header>Death gratuity
for injuries incurred in connection with employee’s service with an Armed
Force</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8102a(d) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB6095858654D40359EEF66E608DAE2BD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(A), by striking <quote>surviving spouse.</quote> and inserting
<quote>surviving spouse (or surviving partner).</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC3F74D1011934F66A9C383829F7DF601"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(C), by inserting <quote>(including children of a domestic partner)</quote>
after <quote>stepchildren</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HDDA5C789D83B427B973DF4A7B10F7954"><enum>603.</enum><header>Beneficiaries
of awards unpaid at death; order of precedence</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8109(a)(D) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE53B0EB620BB40DDB07DA38E084CFFF8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in clause (i), by
striking <quote>the widow or widower.</quote> and inserting <quote>the widow or
widower (or the surviving partner).</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6D5A6FDAAA1548F3BB8AE578369BA5EC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in clause
(ii)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5055CC19AD2D40C0A5BFBF18A178BA41"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or a surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>a widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD66BA0918E8F45569180941780086F94"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or the surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>the widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H38EA4FBA6FA04C778C4EB2DBFD3B85CC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in clause (iii),
by striking <quote>no widow or widower,</quote> and inserting <quote>no widow
or widower (and no surviving partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HD43C2D14C6A5468E97605DDB00E9FA2E"><enum>604.</enum><header>Augmented
compensation for dependents</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8110(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC3C1A9CD67F6486F9F948F947E58B403"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H177D158B5D6B44598B757C5FC98F9218"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4),
by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD3A1C590F3C54374BF1F18E88FBF19DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (4) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB868AB308EF7480C982BCED3EB9C753F" style="USC">
<paragraph id="HA9CBA1587EEA4722AD18962333172C71"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a domestic partner, if—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCB4942AFA91240FE97F47818DC2F34C8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>he or she is a
member of the same household as the employee;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H43A370F5164E4AC080CA3E9B5CC29C12"><enum>(B)</enum><text>he or she is
receiving regular contributions from the employee for his or her support;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEDCAC4F0AB69442E846E58B252DDF06C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the employee has
been ordered by a court to contribute to his or her
support.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HCA5E9B3E7C404599A2199749E9DD760E"><enum>605.</enum><header>Limitations on
right to receive compensation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8116(c) is amended by striking
<quote>spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic
partner),</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="HC4482275ADF04BB3B834BBEC4EC2B702"><enum>606.</enum><header>Compensation in
case of death</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8133 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA943BA1F417341CEAB28C24DD175EBD2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3E6126EECB06487B9D8E900864EAC94F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraphs (1)
and (2), by striking <quote>the widow or widower,</quote> and inserting
<quote>the widow or widower (or the surviving partner),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDBE34606A58C4F38AEB0D8DCDA177C07"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by inserting <quote>(or the surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>for the
widow or widower</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC65604A27E5548DEA6D16554EBD4FE52"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by striking <quote>no widow or widower,</quote> and inserting <quote>no widow
or widower (and no surviving partner),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC230F9D5DF844BA3ADBFD21E8439589B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraphs (4)
and (5), by inserting <quote>surviving partner,</quote> after <quote>widow,
widower,</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC6212BCE70AF4F6F8FA9DA54FBA86C7E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H047EFFC5AC554FCE981CFD89E5B0EEA0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (1) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H68E21A7E59B148B7A3B939757759D75C" style="USC">
<paragraph id="H181828F548444187906A9DFE9C97365A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a widow or widower dies or remarries (or a
surviving partner dies or enters into a subsequent domestic partnership) before
reaching age 55;</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H00B7117A641C4CF38C7C43709DC900FE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the last
sentence—</text>
<clause id="H53298909C3F144B380B8C57BBF471B21"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H9536E50C5A394BC9A9A28B9A19B35788"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>(or more than one domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>husband or wife</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HF4924D3CB1F14A62902AD3D8B5A60828"><enum>607.</enum><header>Lump-sum
payment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8135(b) is
amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5CAFDB2974A64A4BB432268B52E1730F" style="USC">
<subsection id="H48A2948782AE4072B8FBEEE65D2FE3E2"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On remarriage (or entry into a subsequent
domestic partnership) before reaching age 55 a widow or widower (or surviving
partner) entitled to compensation under section 8133 of this title, shall be
paid a lump sum equal to twenty-four times the monthly compensation payment
(excluding compensation on account of another individual) to which that
individual was entitled immediately before the remarriage (or subsequent
domestic partnership).</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H6EFAFD38A3954C0AA46694050BA040AF"><enum>608.</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<subsection id="H334EA79F375C4A45A6239ED91FC0BBC0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of
Labor may prescribe regulations to carry out this title and the amendments made
by this title.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H9F94BF95040B41E5BF10F4B188180F60"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>The
Secretary of Labor shall consult with the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management and the heads of any other agencies whose programs are affected by
this Act in order to standardize, to the extent possible, the process for
establishing the existence of a domestic partnership under each such
program.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HB179CB6AA66B4BE1BAE03A138BD5F315"><enum>609.</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<subsection id="H7BC490579EC94C19A2E7075D528DC374"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to succeeding
provisions of this section, this title and the amendments made by this
title—</text>
<paragraph id="HBA0173E0AB2141FC8EC92FD756AFA8C7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall take effect
on the date of enactment of this Act; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7F068CC89681457EB45B0D5CF635214F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall apply with
respect to any injury or death occurring before, on, or after such date of
enactment.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H15CAA8B134C64D4B9D30EB9D7DF1FF04"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Timely claim
required; limitation on payments</header><text>No compensation shall be
payable, by virtue of the enactment of this title—</text>
<paragraph id="H0A3B9CCEDAEC4E21B0BD30B1594B648E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>unless timely
claim therefor is filed in accordance with the provisions of sections 8122 or
8193 of title 5, United States Code (as applicable), and subsection (c);
or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4F89AB581B51444C8D835C9A4E5A5058"><enum>(2)</enum><text>with respect to
any period commencing before the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC9188514CF6345CBBFA29511FCCFAF29"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Allowability of
claims</header><text>In the case of an original claim for compensation for a
disability or death that occurred before the date of enactment of this Act (and
which would not otherwise be payable, but for the enactment of the amendments
made by this title)—</text>
<paragraph id="HE369FBBB1CA3464CB046421401B5CF75"><enum>(1)</enum><text>such claim shall
not be allowed if, as of such date of enactment, a claim based on such
disability or death would no longer be timely (determined in accordance with
such section 8122 or 8193 (as applicable), before the application of paragraph
(2)); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H919C8763D2034F6DAD2BA31569E1B684"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the timeliness of
any such claim, if not precluded by paragraph (1), shall be determined—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCF8C4878C5014FCBA97661B8F0C58685"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by applying the
provisions of such section 8122 or 8193 (as applicable); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBE8C877BCDC044A99938CDB9A39DDD08"><enum>(B)</enum><text>as if the time
limitations of such section 8122 or 8193 (as applicable) did not begin to run
until the date on which implementing regulations under section 608 become
effective.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H75CBEB5CB6EF445EA791255B62A8A2E7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Payments for
prior periods not affected</header><text>No recovery shall be made of
compensation paid to any individual whose entitlement to compensation is
terminated or reduced as a result of the enactment of this title.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>VII</enum><header>Provisions
relating to employment of relatives and other matters </header>
<section id="H125F2D65FDC84466A3D35ED744B276F8"><enum>701.</enum><header>Employment of
relatives; restrictions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3110(a)(3) is amended by inserting
<quote>domestic partner,</quote> after <quote>husband, wife,</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H1A4C314B99824330A08A4C00F7B9CD47"><enum>702.</enum><header>Settlement of
accounts</header>
<subsection id="HB1D7DE183453439B81E5DFD0FBB04101"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5581 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0BCDF2BF3B47417DB14A0F86BA54CFD0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAF0281D7B76D492DB81196923B158CFC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>by Federal statute.</quote> at the end and inserting
<quote>by Federal statute; and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9EDD5249087045309A7AB0DCF810EB2B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD712C4B047BE4B71A8AB59BEDF341E81" style="USC">
<paragraph id="H79C0EC88E5614FB48A48FA1BEBCE7470"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><term>surviving partner</term> has the
meaning given it by sections 8341 and 8441,
respectively.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD9600856F2014CFC8228B1E1FE008EC2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Order of
precedence</header><text>Section 5582(b) is amended by inserting <quote>(or
surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H27989F3B526646F397CB2F2FA1D87E1A"><enum>703.</enum><header>Benefits for
captives</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5569(j) is
amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>Such regulations shall
include provisions to ensure that, in the administration of this section, a
domestic partner shall be afforded the same status as a spouse.</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="HA144D50219E0436B9F61C0A6C3A57718"><enum>704.</enum><header>Compensation
for disability or death</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5570 is amended by adding at the end
the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2FCB54F903744CAA9CB2E90A51467D48" style="USC">
<subsection id="HD761DA3E5DF548CB99E1282D035CE975"><enum>(h)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Regulations to carry out this section shall
include provisions to ensure that, in the administration of this section, a
domestic partner shall be afforded the same status as a
spouse.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H4C64906ACF7E4EB0ACA9EF3D064A5E58"><enum>705.</enum><header>Family and
medical leave</header>
<subsection id="HB24680A1FD9145A0B93400046647328E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6381(6) is amended (in the matter
before subparagraph (A)), by inserting <quote>or a biological, adopted, or
foster child of the domestic partner of the employee,</quote> before <quote>who
is</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HDCCB6911355C470789BA27E9CD7C8554"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Leave
requirement</header><text>Section 6382 is amended in subsections (a)(1)(C) and
(e)(2)(A) by striking <quote>spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or
domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H1A8EF8CD612146FBB8827F3FB6A92B14"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Certification</header><text>Section
6383 is amended in subsections (a) and (b)(4)(A) by striking
<quote>spouse,</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>spouse (or
domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>VIII</enum><header>Additional
provisions</header>
<section commented="no" id="H7F6299D63BC84CE78FDF2BD40469BA57"><enum>801.</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title applies with respect to—</text>
<paragraph id="HB06FAE8902264CD9957A5577BEAD0AB8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>benefits in the
nature of family, medical, and emergency leave, as provided for under—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF6BA6EEA7E44434BB71E51CBFF454AE2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Family and
Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.), insofar as that Act applies
to the Government Accountability Office and the Library of Congress;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4121AE04F34A48D2B50CB2183D877776"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 202 of the
Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1312); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB2CC68F7296E496AA756BA512E9374DF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>section 412 of
title 3, United States Code;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H345169391EF54C8289E524EB8BF74615"><enum>(2)</enum><text>travel,
transportation, and related payments and benefits, as provided for
under—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H63B26537BA1E4322B230872D39A4437D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>chapter 9 of title
I of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081 et seq.); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H08B8E12D271A40B99761E84AFEB72D86"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 1599b of
title 10, United States Code;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB56F42C4C3CB4C328DEEA614D317525E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>benefits for
members of the commissioned officer corps of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, as provided for under—</text>
<subparagraph id="H147890380D7B443D918E0473BEC4D8E7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>section 261 of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Act
of 2002 (33 U.S.C. 3071); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEC091DC6541A44B38592B88F2D5C27E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any other
provisions of title 10, United States Code (apart from those made applicable by
the provision of law cited in subparagraph (A)); and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HBFD3BB83BA8948DD98CFDF2097F5EFB1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>benefits, provided
for under any other provisions of law, which (as determined by the President or
a designee)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H868D6DF208C84FD8B8957F84A39DE910"><enum>(A)</enum><text>relate to
employees or annuitants (as those terms are defined by section 2110 of title 5,
United States Code); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD9EDB693A380426692D4A239D9DE6F88"><enum>(B)</enum><text>are necessary to
carry out the purposes of this Act with respect to benefits.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HB24956508619471699784DEA983F99F0"><enum>802.</enum><header>Regulations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The President (or designee) shall prescribe
any regulations necessary to ensure that the provisions of law identified in or
under section 801 are administered in a manner consistent with the purposes of
this Act.</text>
</section><enum>IX</enum><header>Amendment to the
Ethics in Government Act of 1978</header>
<section commented="no" id="HF9320572CE014AD18252DBE96457FFDB"><enum>901.</enum><header>Amendment to
the Ethics in Government Act of 1978</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5
U.S.C. App.) is amended by adding at the end of title I the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97C70D81E54E42CAA086635909354282" style="traditional">
<section commented="no" id="HE8FE359807CB412DA44AFA6226C522EB"><enum>112.</enum><header>Domestic partners</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H025ECC567E8C4A8D83B0E538FD667367"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An employee, former employee, or annuitant
and the domestic partner of such employee, former employee, or annuitant (as
the case may be) shall be subject to the provisions of law cited in subsection
(b) to the same extent and in the same manner as in the case of a married
employee, former employee, or annuitant and the spouse of such employee, former
employee, or annuitant (as the case may be).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H3A778D7DBD784A7C91740819F94B2C49"><enum>(b)</enum><text>The provisions of
law cited in this subsection are as follows:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HF2B9F2810A9741B09218A541F1638FAC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The preceding
provisions of this title (relating to financial disclosure requirements of
Federal personnel) and the provisions of title V (relating to Government-wide
limitations on outside earned income and employment).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA54D8701CEBC487286BBC3F3C6348712"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Regulations
prescribed under section 7301 of title 5, United States Code (relating to
regulations for the conduct of employees in the executive branch).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H51FD9FB86C2348B7B0B31055A845EB6C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 7351 of
title 5, United States Code (relating to gifts to superiors).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H4D63BF536AA749038B336E0080D9C102"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 7353 of
title 5, United States Code (relating to gifts to Federal employees).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H0470DA4EC7DA42E184AB5276B0A67B1F"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Chapter 11 of
title 18, United States Code (relating to bribery, graft, and conflicts of
interest).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HF16E412FBF73490DA69DB66660DFCD59"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Section 7342 of
title 5, United States Code (relating to receipt and disposition of foreign
gifts and decorations).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H389A9634A32C4693A2F599EA23B7013B"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Section 1353 of
title 31, United States Code (relating to acceptance of travel and related
expenses from non-Federal sources).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HE15D982C912C48BD932F8D736ED923D6"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Sections 4941 and
4946 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to taxes on self-dealing
and definitions and special rules).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H11142A23FE254551B6FF5F386B9C65C7"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 455 of title 28, United States Code
(relating to disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H9AF284E7D3424EDBAD1B72F14C8787B3"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term
<term>domestic partner</term> has the meaning given such term by section 2110
of title 5, United States
Code.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>X</enum><header>Reporting
requirements</header>
<section id="H03DDC7A388C44FFEB7DA5E82486E72C5"><enum>1001.</enum><header>Report of the
president</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 6
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall
transmit to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
of the Senate—</text>
<paragraph id="H6177945747524FFF83E9BAC06CCF5690"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a
report on the implementation of this Act, including the amendments made by this
Act; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC34EEE3E05FE4293BF5A1B70133DE57F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a
description of any further measures that should be taken in order to carry out
the purposes of this Act, including recommendations for any legislation or
administrative action that may be necessary.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HC384154AB9494789933993EF2E09D7D6"><enum>1002.</enum><header>GAO
report</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 2 years
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Government Accountability
Office shall transmit to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the effect that this Act and any
amendments made by this Act have had on premiums or any other periodic charges
payable by enrollees under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code (relating
to the Federal employees health benefits program), and the impact of extending
benefits to domestic partners on the employee retention and recruitment efforts
by the Federal government.</text>
</section>