1.Short title; references; and
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; and
table of contents.
Sec. 2. Purpose.
TITLE I—Establishment and
termination of domestic partnerships; other general provisions
Sec. 101. Federal employees in domestic
partnerships.
Sec. 102. Guidance and educational
materials.
Sec. 103. Review of programs under which
employment benefits and obligations are established.
Sec. 104. Effective date.
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
Subtitle A—General
provisions
Sec. 301. Definitions.
Subtitle B—Creditable
service
Sec. 311. Creditable
service.
Sec. 312. Survivor reduction for a
current spouse or a current domestic partner.
Sec. 313. Survivor reduction for a
former spouse or former domestic partner.
Sec. 314. Survivor elections; deposit;
offsets.
Sec. 315. Survivor reductions;
computation.
Sec. 316. Insurable interest
reductions.
Sec. 317. Alternative forms of
annuities.
Sec. 318. Lump-sum benefits; designation
of beneficiary; order of precedence.
Subtitle C—Thrift Savings
Plan
Sec. 321. Benefits and election of
benefits.
Sec. 322. Annuities: methods of payment;
election; purchase.
Sec. 323. Protections for spouses,
domestic partners, former spouses, and former domestic partners.
Sec. 324. Justices and
judges.
Subtitle D—Survivor
annuities
Sec. 331. Definitions.
Sec. 332. Rights of a widow, widower, or
surviving partner.
Sec. 333. Rights of a child.
Sec. 334. Rights of a former spouse or
former domestic partner.
Subtitle E—General administrative
provisions
Sec. 341. Authority of the Office of
Personnel Management.
Sec. 342. Cost-of-living
adjustments.
Subtitle F—Federal Retirement Thrift
Investment Management System
Sec. 351. 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. Definition.
Sec. 503. Relocation expenses of
employees transferred or reemployed.
Sec. 504. Taxes on reimbursements for
travel, transportation, and relocation expenses of employees
transferred.
Sec. 505. Relocation expenses of an
employee who is performing an extended assignment.
Sec. 506. Transportation of family
members incident to repatriation of employees held captive.
Sec. 507. Regulations to include
domestic partners.
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. Employees of nonappropriated
fund instrumentalities.
Sec. 609. Effective date.
TITLE VII—Employee leave; death or
captivity compensation; other employee benefits
Sec. 701. Voluntary transfers of leave;
Voluntary Leave Bank Program.
Sec. 702. Family and medical
leave.
Sec. 703. Settlement of
accounts.
Sec. 704. Payments to missing
employees.
Sec. 705. Compensation for disability or
death.
Sec. 706. Annuity of the Comptroller
General.
TITLE VIII—Ethics in
Government, conflicts of interest, employment of relatives, gifts, and employee
conduct
Sec. 801. Ethics in Government Act of
1978.
Sec. 802. Conflicts of
interest.
Sec. 803. Employment of relatives,
restrictions.
Sec. 804. Receipt and disposition of
foreign gifts and decorations.
Sec. 805. Regulation of conduct;
gifts.
Sec. 806. Acceptance of travel
assistance from non-Federal sources.
2.The purpose of this Act is to apply
employment benefits and obligations to Federal employees in same-sex domestic
partnerships and to their domestic partners that are the same as the employment
benefits and obligations that apply under existing statutes to married Federal
employees and to their spouses.
<enum>I</enum><header>Establishment and
termination of domestic partnerships; other general provisions</header>
<section id="ID5d8a69876969499da22fc0a1976053c9"><enum>101.</enum><header>Federal
employees in domestic partnerships</header>
<subsection id="idB66BBD78DEFC429DA0213B8CCEB0FD69"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subpart A of part III
is amended by inserting after section 2305 the following:</text>
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<chapter id="id47B7AB62FADB4193933EEC4F2CAC272A"><enum>25</enum><header>Federal Employees
in Domestic Partnerships</header>
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2501. Definitions.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2502. Establishment and termination of
domestic partnerships.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<section id="ID62b9c97c342746b58ce0cb903b02599a"><enum>2501.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this chapter—</text>
<paragraph id="ID4e9191fe9fc7408ca705c77e05538dd0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>annuitant</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDf6ba314f92e545119697b7d50f5495b5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an annuitant as
defined under section 8331, 8401, or 8901(3)(A); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd1e43d39477c465f94e556c00ca20412"><enum>(B)</enum><text>as determined
under regulations prescribed by the President or a designee of the President,
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>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID490d0c280e444360ad8f2a37f475b65e"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<term>Director</term> means the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDa913d9e71f3c45e6b0ae08e3640c9a27"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<term>domestic partner</term> means either of the individuals in a domestic
partnership;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID7f14ae942a2645249426628a5f48818d"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term
<term>domestic partnership</term> means a relationship between 2 individuals of
the same sex, at least 1 of whom is an employee, former employee, or annuitant,
that has been established under section 2502(a) and not terminated under
section 2502(b); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID84bdb50435cc4e8aa2da7b94ce0eb428"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the term
<term>employee</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID29f7957649ce41f7add1ea8d86f3db8d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an employee as
defined under section 2105, including an employee referred to in subsection (c)
or (e) of that section;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbc383881d6734e38a65ba812fdf6d1a6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a Member of
Congress;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID51de67787f1f47e49ce3af2a0b004ab1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the
President;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1fa4dfee6eba45c08162316dedcb5db6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>an individual who
is an employee, as defined under section 8331, 8401, 8701, 8901, or 9001;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDc67dbc535a3747af96a608d33417cc20"><enum>(E)</enum><text>any other
individual who is employed by the Government and is included within this
definition under regulations prescribed by the President or a designee of the
President.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="IDa2ca5aded6be4023ab2310a1cea469bc"><enum>2502.</enum><header>Establishment
and termination of domestic partnerships</header>
<subsection id="ID2524db49afd64dfaa60eb12a728d1d5c"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment of
domestic partnership</header>
<paragraph id="idC5780938F606458E8D501F198ED17138"><enum>(1)</enum><text>An employee,
former employee, or annuitant and another individual (who may also be an
employee, former employee, or annuitant) may establish a domestic partnership
as provided in this section for the purposes of the provisions of law to which
this chapter applies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID46b6aeba0f274261a0a27ce08e5e5192"><enum>(2)</enum><text>To establish a
domestic partnership, the 2 individuals referred to in paragraph (1) shall
jointly execute, and the employee, former employee, or annuitant shall file, an
affidavit in such form and filed in such manner as the Director shall by
regulation prescribe.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID79bad3a385b541be88938e96d9019c63"><enum>(3)</enum><text>By the affidavit
referred to in paragraph (2), each of the individuals shall attest to the
following:</text>
<subparagraph id="IDe701e24ba9fc4c6e904e7fbf9e264776"><enum>(A)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id4E1D574A258A409B95FEEBC0E956F495"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The individuals are of
the same sex; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id183CB1792C784DFA92BE0DAF4CC01761" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the individual
who files the affidavit is an employee, former employee, or annuitant.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID08d54a2867704df59ce8db273578be77"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idB0E7DD3228E8407B850A285BE38F23EE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The individuals are in
a committed domestic-partnership relationship with each other satisfying the
conditions in clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) and intend to remain so
indefinitely.</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="IDf04d82a41100493fb8db00ade39f855f" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The individuals
have a common residence and intend to continue to do so (or would have a common
residence, but are prevented from doing so because of an assignment abroad or
other employment-related factors, financial considerations, family
responsibilities, or other similar reason (which shall be specifically
identified in the affidavit)).</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID8ed60fc3bc43432980a92e8987098316" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>The individuals
share responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s welfare and
financial obligations.</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="IDe5ebafd0543b4f299063832ee56a9f68" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>Neither
individual is married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone except each
other.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDeb3b763321f1451b975d62fdd364b7a9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Each individual is
at least 18 years of age and mentally competent to consent to a
contract.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID386d6687316a473c97b7cd5e544bb4a2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The individuals
are not related to each other by blood in a way that would prohibit legal
marriage between individuals otherwise eligible to marry in the jurisdiction
(or, if applicable, in any jurisdiction) in which the individuals have a common
residence.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID03646fa3aba745578a5792e65b4e4b65"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Each of the
individuals understands that—</text>
<clause id="ID9e46c5dffbe247ac8f9181f66b93e493"><enum>(i)</enum><text>as a domestic
partner, each individual not only gains certain benefits, but also assumes
certain obligations, as set forth in the provision of law to which this chapter
applies, the violation of which may lead to disciplinary action against an
employee and to criminal and other penalties;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID034bdc59712a42e0849ee810a7bb9cb6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>either or both of
the domestic partners are required to file notification under subsection (b)(2)
terminating the domestic partnership within 30 days after any condition under
clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subparagraph (B) ceases to be satisfied, and, if
1 domestic partner dies, the other is required to file a notification under
subsection (b)(3) within 30 days after the death; and</text>
</clause><clause id="IDe6167d86769f4b748bc29a9061886832"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>willful
falsification of information in the affidavit, or willful failure to file
notification as required under subsection (b)(2) or (3), may lead to recovery
of amounts obtained as a result of such falsification or failure, disciplinary
action against an employee, and criminal or other penalties.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID37e3863335354edd92b0e8b35af496d3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Termination of
domestic partnership</header>
<paragraph id="IDf81b87e421204aa3b52beac7ffb7cfe6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>A domestic
partnership is terminated upon—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDd9ad07a9be5046ecbd9d2b533dea30bc"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the death of
either domestic partner;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbf8b3d96ffe94116a5a468903c745de9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the filing of a
notification under paragraph (2) by either or both domestic partners; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb7d4d96f64a649b383e715bb9bfa7534"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the satisfaction
of such other conditions as the Director may by regulation prescribe.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID8a465dee34ed45afa4cfa970434e770c"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id80EC9EFF09734CDC953F6303ACFE0F7D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>If any condition
referred to under clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subsection (a)(3)(B) ceases to
be satisfied, either or both of the domestic partners shall, within 30 days
after the condition ceases to be satisfied, execute and file a notification, in
such form and in such manner as prescribed by the Director in regulation,
stating that the condition is no longer satisfied and that the domestic
partnership is terminated.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="IDfe231ec064ad4440878bced6cb72b99c" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Each domestic
partner has a duty that the notification under subparagraph (A) be timely
filed, but the duty of 1 domestic partner shall be satisfied if the other
domestic partner timely executes and files the required notification.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID1574f32bf0fa452b80948418c56ff767" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The Director shall
promulgate regulations establishing the criteria for determining when any
condition referred to under clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subsection (a)(2)(B)
ceases to be satisfied.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID7736bcd986fe48b6b72597b929e82aa6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>When one domestic
partner dies, the other domestic partner shall, within 30 days after the death,
execute and file a notification of the death, in such form and in such manner
as prescribed by the Director in regulation.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDe3df3d2271a1479c959145d342d21fb9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effectiveness of
the filing of an affidavit</header>
<paragraph id="ID649f95d6cbd3457cac75ef072c1769fc"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The filing of an
affidavit under subsection (a)(2) 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 the filing.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID65d930ce543a488ebb3305bc8f455ab6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>No individual
shall, for purposes of the provisions of law to which this chapter applies, be
treated as being in a domestic partnership—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDae3e7ca8ba354091ac1c94eeef739a3b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>unless an
affidavit has been filed in accordance with this section and with regulations
prescribed by the Director; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDba778b9666b641ceb2d6b59a0b1cc947"><enum>(B)</enum><text>after the earlier
of—</text>
<clause id="IDd577441d8e5a470a874571a5696427d3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date of the
death of either individual; or</text>
</clause><clause id="IDd7ea3779cacf4f0daf08d02d1fe63131"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the date as of
which the domestic partnership is otherwise terminated, as determined under
regulations prescribed by the Director.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID5adb78ad0d184244a36e8ebb2fd69b4c"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Additional
notifications to government employer</header><text>A domestic partner employed
by an entity of the United States shall provide such notifications to the
employing entity of the formation, existence, or termination of the domestic
partnership, in addition to the filings required under subsections (a) and (b),
as may be required, and in such form and in such manner as prescribed, by the
Director in regulation.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7DC32517CDA140009483B212C708381B"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA27ABDF5A3BC423FB16326A15056741C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section applies for purposes of the
provisions of this title (excluding chapter 81).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDaaf1488d59c14b0983479eab4d331316"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Two individuals
determined under section 8101(21) or 8171(e)(1)(A) to be domestic partners for
purposes of chapter 81 shall be deemed to be domestic partners in a domestic
partnership, as defined under section 2501, for purposes of any provision of
law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID9aa3440de32b4770acbaa7fb06a6e416"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Under regulations
prescribed by the President—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID28ed573f568c42799133bbdb696f47f2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Secretary of
Labor shall inform the Director of any individual determined under section
8101(21) or 8171(e)(1)(A) to be domestic partners; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbad9f151cb694248a6379835961d4390"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if an individual
who is an employee or annuitant is determined under section 8101(21) or
8171(e)(1)(A) to be a domestic partner with another individual for purposes of
chapter 81, the individual shall promptly establish a domestic partnership
under subsection (a) and shall be subject to the requirements of subsections
(b), (c), and (d).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDaef7d3f55ae946f2950d9c6c7ee5bac7"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The
Director shall issue regulations to carry out subsection (a) through
(d).</text>
</subsection></section></chapter><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="IDd43dc614d0f3477cb754832637d7104c"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
table of chapters for part III of title 5, United States Code, is amended by
inserting after the item relating to chapter 23 the following:</text>
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<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<multi-column-toc-entry bold="off" level="section"><toc-enum>25.</toc-enum><level-header level="section"> Federal Employees in Domestic
Partnerships</level-header><target>2501</target></multi-column-toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="ID6f99afe2650c433ea3cb91013355a33b"><enum>102.</enum><header>Guidance and
educational materials</header>
<subsection id="ID73ac53437916467d9eaf349792c908cb"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The officers and agencies that have authority to develop
and issue guidance and educational materials with respect to benefits and
obligations established under the amendments made by this Act and the measures
taken under section 103 shall issue the materials—</text>
<paragraph id="id9C72522E07D643B5B6FEEE794E64B8B4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in accordance with
subsection (c); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id28E93668C15646499FBA7E575C803F48"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if in the
executive branch, under the coordination of the Director of the Office of
Personnel Management.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID752dd1f9225447a881ad3095d2fe6bd4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Office of
Personnel Management</header><text>The Director of the Office of Personnel
Management shall, to the greatest extent practicable—</text>
<paragraph id="ID5feb9e0543cd4b6ab40e7045bd71591a"><enum>(1)</enum><text>compile the
materials referred to under subsection (a);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDd6b6a59f030e43bb87384e14cdae8429"><enum>(2)</enum><text>prepare and issue
guidance and educational materials with respect to benefits and obligations
available to domestic partners of certain Secret Service and Park Police
Officers who are covered under the DC Police Officers’ and Firefighters’
Retirement Plan, and include that guidance documentation in the compilation
under paragraph (1); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID583ce947484b47e2a8453279c091a4ab"><enum>(3)</enum><text>ensure that such
materials are readily available to employees and their domestic partners, both
in print form and by publicly accessible website.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDfe088854c721472e98631d930f1f23ac"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Timeliness</header><text>To
the maximum extent practicable, the materials shall be—</text>
<paragraph id="ID1237742a56b046ca80ad06d4d4bc5053"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prepared and made
readily available not later than 30 days before the effective date of this Act;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID3852db34d89741fb8e30a2e58f60426d"><enum>(2)</enum><text>updated as
necessary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDea957f41bac7449eb29799dd9eac583e"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>This section shall take effect on the date of enactment of
this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID4911f50e96de446eba1245c13e4379a1"><enum>103.</enum><header>Review of
programs under which employment benefits and obligations are
established</header>
<subsection id="ID69d4ebddbb0b47deb9c81be479202e3a"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section—</text>
<paragraph id="ID36d128600ebd4b9bb806ad8929b92023"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>benefit</term> includes any right, power, privilege, immunity, or
protection, whether substantive, procedural, remedial, or otherwise;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID2b8eb39857634cb5ab112525392cff3e"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<term>domestic partner</term> means either of the individuals in a domestic
partnership;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID8d6eb0e73d61466db0c5814ec80a48ae"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<term>domestic partnership</term> means a relationship between 2
individuals—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDa73295ebb437479686409e9e3b5abd8c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who are of the
same sex;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcf0bdd6e8cc848d3aca6d2c320c055bb"><enum>(B)</enum><text>at least 1 of whom
is an employee;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID494c7d3f0f8040ada0cd2395f0617123"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idBE15FFE9AEB24C0594F4A50C7D34B59C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who are in a committed
domestic-partnership relationship with each other satisfying the conditions in
clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) and intend to remain so indefinitely;</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="IDaed1fd67df784e069d65099ad680a5ad" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>who have a common
residence and intend to continue to do so (or would have a common residence,
but are prevented from doing so because of such reasons as an assignment abroad
or other employment-related factors, financial considerations, family
responsibilities, or other such reasons);</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID65a9a5709efb462fbc300ed3fedabe53" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>who share
responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s welfare and financial
obligations; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID7aa7b931d4224aac8d61efc6546d3c83" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>neither of whom
is married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone except each
other;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID715dc439b250414eb14d0e22a000944f"><enum>(D)</enum><text>each of whom are
at least 18 years of age and mentally competent to consent to a contract;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe6e8cdeb16a441f29403e3b8e6cc22e0"><enum>(E)</enum><text>who are not
related to each other by blood in a way that would prohibit legal marriage
between individuals otherwise eligible to marry in the jurisdiction (or, if
applicable, in any jurisdiction) in which the individuals have a common
residence; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDa62dc8a0370946bfac634e6b8fa44645"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term
<term>employee</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="idF3C550AEA4C146B09C27304EE87EFC0C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an employee as
defined under section 2501 of title 5, United States Code, as added by section
101 of this Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID25f3ac887f2843d39a845215c221fa0f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a member of the
commissioned corps of the Public Health Service or of the commissioned corps of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID2019d16085344abf9c2c8514ad1f60d5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any other
individual performing personal service to the Government (including an
instrumentality wholly owned by the United States), whether for pay, for
nominal pay, or as a volunteer, who is not performing such service as an
employee of any employer other than the Government or as a member of the Armed
Forces; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDca092240f25c413ca66767c983c8f861"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the term
<term>obligation</term> includes any duty, disability, or liability, whether
substantive, procedural, remedial, or otherwise.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDacecf8331d76473fb40af53c57d2824b"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reviews,
additional measures, recommendations, and reports to congress</header><text>Not
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and not less
frequently than once every 2 years thereafter, the President and designees of
the President shall—</text>
<paragraph id="ID691eb27109374089aac9990ab8a21a35"><enum>(1)</enum><text>conduct a review
of the employment benefits and of the employment obligations applied to married
employees and their spouses to determine what authority exists for the
President and designees of the President to apply such benefits and obligations
to employees who have domestic partners and the domestic partners of those
employees;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idEDC851D1037D433EB68704309E0A6F6E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>include within the
review under paragraph (1) all employment benefits and obligations under
regulations prescribed by the President or a designee of the President, or
promulgated by the head of any agency or department of the executive
branch;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf9b9f7509ff540bc9776607370907479"><enum>(3)</enum><text>take any
additional measures that can be taken, to the greatest extent practicable and
consistent with law, to apply such benefits and obligations to employees with
domestic partners and the domestic partners of those employees;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID0f5b7d2b3a4748c1987fbc204cce0922"><enum>(4)</enum><text>develop
recommendations for any legislation to further apply such benefits and
obligations to employees with domestic partners and the domestic partners of
those employees; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID7be72b4af16d4b8690c89cb519dd5b02"><enum>(5)</enum><text>submit a report to
Congress summarizing the review, determinations, and recommendations under
paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id062127BA33CB4CA696FB6967433E614B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>This section shall take effect on the date of enactment of
this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID2c9e1127af6a4495aaaa8cedbf981189"><enum>104.</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<subsection id="id8634D1B83B5B4A788115CEB31594D4C9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise
specifically provided, this Act and amendments made by this Act shall take
effect 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDdab1d2c13a054471845e5c8ef1ffe89d"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application to
current and future employees</header><text>An employee, former employee, or
annuitant shall be eligible to establish a domestic partnership by filing an
affidavit under section 2502(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, as added by
section 101 of this Act, only if the employee, former employee, or annuitant is
or has been employed as an employee on or after the effective date of this
Act.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Civil Service
Retirement System</header>
<section id="H23512D949D564FBBB49774578B9EE192"><enum>201.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8331 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HC3398D6535354A9188A196D7F8D3B722"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (30),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H38233A04423349498FE20874BD4B1F22"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (31),
by striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEDCDAC9FC2E14685BF2E678C152EC9FF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEDB36029500A493893DABC179590ABBE" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<paragraph id="ID54c5abd0649545cbb58c4eace7b2c58c"><enum>(32)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section 2501; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H685FDC0A46C9443D867BFF082EFAD397"><enum>(33)</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="HF0E8596038DF4381A0082FB44F22A06F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>if such individual
performed at least 18 months of civilian service covered under this subchapter
as an employee or Member; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H837C2BE701614B16BA8D78A21FD47779"><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="HFF7E6D5C537D4A818299FF5FEDB59283"><enum>202.</enum><header>Creditable
service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8332 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H771263FB5EDE4F148BFDDA3898CD783A"><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="HC8E1A7FBE12048DAAC22A234419F763E"><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 (or domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H4145D3B7307B429BA5D80921F301F7E5"><enum>203.</enum><header>Computation of
annuity</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8339 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7BB2350584D54E74AE6956AD451D5654"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(j)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7365FC8AF6C64081B219B50810FAB9DC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H106D53619B6146B8A81C3BAF03607398"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>the spouse</quote> each place
it appears;</text>
</clause><clause id="HD95E2E119AD5449784D099C5D5040B74"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or has a domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>is married</quote>;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="HB3CD8F9370A34E948AB4212134D7796E"><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="HEE8C248F011743C4B6CBAF78D0894FCD"><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="H1457C04DE80E4AA1AB6352234ECE933D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="H13C18F7FD7F64864869755577CEC75D6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the first
sentence—</text>
<subclause id="HC9FD5C0335514FB9A8D834051A8CB73C"><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="H4A0022EF22884E7D9A2633FE49410F0F"><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="H7897B664C1BF491096B2FE55052B4AD3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the second
sentence—</text>
<subclause id="H3351D55FBB52481DA04934FCCC57930F"><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="H4F166CC680864B9CBCBFFB73AA12A710"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>is dissolved,</quote> and inserting <quote>is dissolved (or
terminated),</quote>;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H5A772F0A745D4B2ABBD7F031EF85C7BD"><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="HFF8010508BF14140A052C302CA2C51CA"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B)—</text>
<subclause id="H7B55ADD4C67C4D048D8EE2D8E5151914"><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="H604EAC83EF4A4CA0A0A5A7B53836273A"><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="H877DBB40EA7D470BA8DC6AB6FAD738AA"><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="H2438BF73080042B18588DE7258520B45"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (5) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H667C32A863B34D17998DF88ED6E58C2D" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<paragraph id="HCE6369949E25464995092A61D9475025" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H7ACEBFC1D981447A895F2308E00FA118"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H494EE35CFAE744E79A5186AD9F3098E5" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after the death of the spouse (or domestic
partner); or</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H2937D980DF1545459DA0A7119F3FF075" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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><continuation-text changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" continuation-text-level="subparagraph" indent="subsection" reported-display-style="strikethrough">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><subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HB70369DFB73E431F82C37D01DB6E8593" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 enters into a domestic partnership)
(or the former domestic partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership
or marries) 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H4D52584C0CFF48DC8460EEAEECB651EA" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2A16F7DE6A864546AD91BCA97314C4EC"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon entry into a subsequent marriage (or
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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HD06DE3729DAB444E9739EEA4C09CCA88" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(I)</enum><text>within 2 years
after such entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership);
or</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H07684A4BDB654A83A92971E4913E2B9B" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if later, within
2 years after—</text>
<item id="H4FF6F9F3FC2646A7B07E9CEBA2553BA6"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the death of or entry into a subsequent
marriage (or domestic partnership) by any former spouse (or former domestic
partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a survivor annuity
under section 8341(h); or</text>
</item><item id="H36F264A4462C41C2996C567EEB3938C6"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>if there was more
than 1 surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner), the
death of or entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by the
last such surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic
partner),</text>
</item><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subclause" indent="paragraph">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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HDB7A847B9203466F810905E5A26475F0" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 subsequent
marriage (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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H48479D49A59B4B12981948512D8AEBA1" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HB1CA6743267B4F6F9345BBFBE99EEEDD" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HB53777CB0B484C6391EFD98A4ED8CE41" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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="H5E4EF4B675694CB09CA000B757C0CFFD"><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="H352CAFD1C23C4F049E05D23D621842C5"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HF804A8E9CF414F349F857D504AFD72E5" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The deposit provisions of clauses (ii) and
(iii) shall not apply if—</text>
<subclause id="HFE8AEC719070479BB47A42ED4710A437"><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="H21EBE697DBF542A1938705AAD4DDF9E2"><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="H3E8FA785B94D4A5F917D478D8A80CCD0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(k)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H46E2C9E6E72F49B991086DFBC5AEEFC1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="H129F777CC2D64727BCE64DF6D9DA13D8"><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="H14B23C1B43DC4EE4973545F76996ADF5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H807381CCC29F4AD29F0ED7AA7F0DAD95"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="HC765A10516F0478B8A85D3EA21463228"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking the
matter before subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2F45FBE173FC4DA4A7F0C3FF1F4DF871" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<paragraph id="HBDBB936A3BA64F4EBB3167CDB2C3CB0E" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H88C690B96D2641CBBC062E0C903365BA"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HA3F4AFE69ABC4DA687601B8B876AF257" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(i)</enum><text>within 2 years
after such employee or Member marries (or enters into a domestic partnership);
or</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H3940FC5F07F64EC883593A0DF1DAE250" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if later, within
2 years after—</text>
<subclause id="H3438255C0F7945CA9FC834738A92FD18"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the death of, or
entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by, any former
spouse (or former domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled
to a survivor annuity under section 8341(h); or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H7408770A023E48EDAB88CD011C9882A7"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if there was more
than 1 surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner), the
death of or entry into a subsequent marriage (or 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="H96205D5B3602445780112780F742A020"><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="HBE7567C6CFC5438997D696F6CC7660BE"><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="H1155FF6E12DB4B71BB7E1726B293D3FD"><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="H8CC5434E084849178302ADCDE462FDAA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(o)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4A49BE6E062841A0851661C13D7359BB"><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="HF0655E3AB4BB420DA450B99C59C0A071"><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="H28A7A464FD33423DBBCFA97B068B7E02"><enum>204.</enum><header>Cost-of-living
adjustment of annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8340 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H77549D69FE1B42938FCB13A33ADDEFDE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H75FAA6A3BFFF4846BD9076FC695E4A3F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (1);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD3165F25D8FA4CDFAF3D9A92F101F2C3"><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="H57A764362492408499837B157967B73F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H911DAE0D37B040068F5AA48B9A771057" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H1A7C2B0D6A6A4CAEAC6599A3D0559C29"><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="HA80FBAFAD1C74B1DA8A0A2A813E33CBA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA3F62397938A4410BA7C5C991654EA80"><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="H4AD458C975534E1199A5FD91429F939F"><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="H0D7920E1C3A1432180218E551C96BB3E"><enum>205.</enum><header>Survivor
annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8341 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8D7889378673435D9922B10639C7AEAD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H584FFC0D03A945F094D7C75109D60640"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF1664526CD4A4892814D49A585DEA617"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (2) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7AC232A777E3484E8FB98BFE6A49D69A" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID289a5f941f3847a18ed3953ffb591e2f"><enum>(3)</enum><text><term>surviving
partner</term> means the surviving domestic partner of an employee or Member
who—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID7d9e99a87f644c558bda521301ba0a88"><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 id="ID0945e749cc1d425394e67eaecdf704f9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>satisfies such
other requirements, related to parenthood and the domestic partnership, as the
Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall by regulation prescribe
based on the definition of a widow or widower under paragraphs (1)(B) and
(2)(B) of this section;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID9d5cf6b812544449841acbcff9de6301"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)
(as so redesignated by subparagraph (A))—</text>
<clause id="ID0b07af42372949ca9669e44cff9dd910"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A)—</text>
<subclause id="IDea97123b516644af8dced3c9e38c06c4"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>an unmarried dependent child</quote> and inserting <quote>a dependent
child who is unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership) and</quote>;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="IDca5a4d1735a04178a75d145d67a37356"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in clause (ii),
by striking <quote>stepchild but only if the stepchild </quote> and inserting
<quote>stepchild (or child of the domestic partner not adopted by or otherwise
the child of the employee or Member) but only if the stepchild (or the child of
the domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="ID3546627969af4ac38c44b689abc28025"><enum>(III)</enum><text>in clause (iv),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>the
surviving spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H1E689D1B5C6A4865A561C74751EA1815"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraphs
(B) and (C), by striking <quote>unmarried dependent child</quote> and inserting
<quote>dependent child who is unmarried (and not in a domestic
partnership)</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H192A9955616341A1973669CECA58F0E2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD713794A155B4426852A470B8905C1DD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="HAD55EBC0BB53443183C36664662A731B"><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="H99BDCCB1276B4AF288188112EF9BB6C0"><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="HB42320EDE2F848C9A1399C3C0E445174"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="H491D0832DDE8417EA8D352D559C64244"><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="H1B260F379C60443D9955357245F7A30F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or in a domestic partnership with)</quote> after <quote>married
to</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H863B144381D04C28987614B07DC71324"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="HFD3BD1AC53BA4C17AD719462BFBDF257"><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="H597692DDB3284E77AF910910A41FE93E"><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="H03ADB2C66AB04BE6808EE73FD5ACDEF4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by inserting <quote>(or, in the case of a widow or widower, enters into a
domestic partnership) (or, in the case of a surviving partner, enters into a
subsequent domestic partnership or marries)</quote> after
<quote>remarries</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF76C4DFC222841A7A69B5336F2F5B95C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph
(4)—</text>
<clause id="HC068032CBCCE4D9C868E5BF358700B94"><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="H8DB0645D85BD4DB9A83837CC5D34D618"><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="H0DCB8F58846E476FADECA8E02DDB9621"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8931786749994D64975D9976FBB17D3D"><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="H55DBE800D1AB471DB25E8EA3C4253C2A"><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="H298BE7E072AB413FB448D934BC75DAD4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by
inserting <quote>(or, in the case of a widow or widower, enters into a domestic
partnership) (or, in the case of a surviving partner, enters into a subsequent
domestic partnership or marries)</quote> after <quote>remarries</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2AAED447610A45968CD070EB9078C5AE"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H60CE2DCFACF3486D956383A05F64D89E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the
matter before paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5559C572C1FE4034AC9ABF5106E23C0A" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<subsection id="H1FB3FC62D4CB427C9E29BCF3AB3F476B"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H935BC5F496AE4FA8B7ACC89C5A5FCF94"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the purposes of this
subsection—</text>
<subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HC05878B381FD44C6BD5B5098DDDEBEA5" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H3438AE0E401C461CB576C1931CB1138B" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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="HB4537038CEE44F749CDEF2F2F2CE0E20"><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="H412B2C8CA0314BF08F69F151C29024AB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="H6DF12648E2F045D28C04A1A5323A06FA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(E), by striking <quote>dies or marries;</quote> and inserting <quote>dies or
marries (or enters into a domestic partnership);</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HDC426B3A50F144969EDEA22405753804"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the matter
following subparagraph (E)—</text>
<subclause id="HFC7DC6D9BEE54FA090D7B89F0C6049E2"><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="H4D30161CC2A447DE960A7FD90752117E"><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="HB3EE54D26CFF45DA8E0A969DD6938988"><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="HF1F8E051EE5A4649BD3A8A2DA65863C7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (f) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H481364A0C64A44DD8C7ACD547214172E" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<subsection id="H9B052C8C294F421CA3561B347EFC05DE"><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="H224F789087F249E6BAE5B9573C9DC90F"><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 enters into a domestic partnership) (or the
surviving domestic partner dies or enters into a subsequent domestic
partnership or marries); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H364350AB375D46408870BF7EFE3968DC"><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="H85CB81D86F884A7980ECE61806719EF3"><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="H29D385C92AF1419ABE5AA55FB1FA17FD"><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="HCBCE0A3CFB8D4FA3A12F59C63CF03F0E"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (g) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H106201C2501542F7A5CA8938EED71841" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<subsection id="H743AD15ED2B04EACA3CD50B62F5FF12A"><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 a subsequent entry into a marriage (or 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="HEC40FCD4E42B45EEB4EDDC10FE0E4595"><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 subsequent entry into a marriage (or
domestic partnership); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H766075E12F004CB282CC0527367152E7"><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="H44B9256F76D84092830708E4BDDD9798"><enum>(7)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (h) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA9E703C7224A4542B5AC867762B98CC5" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<subsection id="H86171D098F424E9A922AB52C3284F5E2"><enum>(h)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HDE989473FD66443FAEF232D1EFE15F42"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H6973C7FE2995413381C767EFDE4F12D2" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H79C297C0F9DC4CE3911DC1FA7FF9D61B"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H13E55F935EB440458842E17040F29123" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H9676E96C623B4DD88B7D969677D80133" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HE84D40365C564602B68FBCC65B9A7D1E" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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="H6DF884A2EDDE4AF9ACA7AA252C1C9673"><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="HCA815045E32343CB8159B8C8B01DFA9B"><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="H4D1911178EC94A598270C03686660A46"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HC6A6D779A74640C0BCD9742D9117B26F" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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="HE100B111C1484A29868C25B60F5BBE1A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall not commence before—</text>
<clause id="H648351B6AA1A48C3A02964018D334487"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the day after the
employee, Member, or annuitant dies; or</text>
</clause><clause id="HDC298E411C8F4870AFD376155E4E1528"><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="H407E5F68F8BF45ABAE0A58FCB0658CFE"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall terminate—</text>
<clause id="HB588781C3492424FA11EF88B47CE4B5F"><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 enters into a domestic partnership) (or former
domestic partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership or marries)
before becoming 55 years of age or dies; or</text>
</clause><clause id="H5E065C50E73E4AC69DCEE057D6FC5E5F"><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 enters into a domestic
partnership) or dies (or the former domestic partner enters into a subsequent
domestic partnership or marries or dies).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H1354322D391A4F258F461970DE38EFEA" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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="HA7646A9CDB834B82AFF79914914670CD"><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="HAEB38BBB1C7C414F9FBD5838CA528D35"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to the extent that
such modification involves an annuity under this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H66B5400E593A46BD9FEC306E1BD74FAF" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H52D4BD0C0D8243E8A964B6448EFDCE2F" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Any payment under
this subsection to a person bars recovery by any other person.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HBCCFE39E9774445C807EF7B174515CA8" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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="H82E569282A224F5B8AD54E184CB454DE"><enum>(8)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (i) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H0435C394F7C1486C91475ABB8083114F" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H56573D5862F14E0B9A6E202641647537"><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="H4B5F0641B6C54B98A37C9CFA6AAD53D5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the death of the
employee or Member was accidental; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4B9075BBC2954A9686FA984D7D7694FC"><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="HBD4D245588BA4C0DA6245CCCD27059BE"><enum>(9)</enum><text>by redesignating
subsection (k) as subsection (j) and amending such subsection to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HBA9C46DD6151429AB1FD6163B50FD34D" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H8379DFA79EE945249932BD40D3C0D57A"><enum>(j)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H344D2D06027E4F9AB0E1787FD230D923"><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 subsequent entry into a marriage (or 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H72D4C5902CB5452FBD8CC47F165C9BD9" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A subsequent entry
into a marriage (or 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="HB1041E50C230498CAABA43C6F68AA4AE" 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="HE68F8B5B2F064106A43AA1629882B0AC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6AA1837CFA184E58B8164ED9F58D68CE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idAF3BDCEB336842E4B8EE836EBD5F91EF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>stepchild.</quote> and inserting <quote>stepchild (or a child of a
domestic partner which child is not adopted by or otherwise a child of the
employee or Member).</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H988113F6799E4F58887B975D821BA7F6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(j)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8EAFA93B5C1E4A3AB560C66E7469687D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(A), by inserting <quote>(or the domestic partner, if any)</quote> after
<quote>the spouse, if any</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFBCAB5BB3F7C41A785255EB7F51B6A51"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(or domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idAF7A23BDA1FB4B14A5EA2F8AB94AE71C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former spouse</quote>
each place it appears.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HB1CEA2300E874B6685EEBE1A5394F402"><enum>207.</enum><header>Alternative
forms of annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8343a is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H07BCE329D8A944B7A40E8EB7B6B8F55F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idD6BEE11CDB7447DEB7BC9686B3595D99"><enum>(A)</enum><text>(in the material
before subparagraph (A)), by inserting <quote>(or in a domestic
partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H106D941EBA694D5E82AAF5C0E169872A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID04d66003223a47af954d32428de9f794"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6BD119378C3B49C69BF3F7E7F7F14AF1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>married,</quote> each place it appears and inserting
<quote>married (or in a domestic partnership),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID4471900e67114f84a6e7184b672730e7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>former spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>former spouse
(or former domestic partner),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H17DF30F5037F4DCFB0B01D888CC35CAD"><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="H4ECB01FDBF864085B2569862AAC3F47A"><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 (and domestic partners), and
their former spouses (and former domestic partners)</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H066855F1379240319DE8812B8DB37732"><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="H9FE3566CBDA14442A06E5B0744D6327E"><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="H1163518DB43944A2B2ABC3A14344CD8F"><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="H391C93B4C6F340DB9D31BA27D90CF047"><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>
<subtitle id="id8C6553DFC29348088F6BEEB4E720BBB1"><enum>A</enum><header>General
provisions</header>
<section id="HCC34A64FE390471AAEE8383A94D3B7BF"><enum>301.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8401 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9C56899072664EB8BAF16EBE43F141BD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (35),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF7FF3670681C479EAB943B5140AEA098"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (36),
by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H29394749711D4C4CA2F073D00B8C11F1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H38A725D4E6C942688686FC6F3D7A93D9" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID17da0950501e48839a4ba7d1c1dc5052"><enum>(37)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section 2501; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H66EBE4E5619B4E1992F5D242E37E53D7"><enum>(38)</enum><text><term>former
domestic partner</term> means a former domestic partner of an
individual—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA3346205D39E45778AFF89644792AD13"><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="HE89D4F17559A44838E1ADC12A1F2D8DF"><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></subtitle><subtitle id="idCF666EBD104549C4B6A676F1D6B3BCFD"><enum>B</enum><header>Creditable
service</header>
<section id="H1C73C40409E847D7AE55FD574F155DDF"><enum>311.</enum><header>Creditable
service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8411 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2B56A863F2584050BF086AFEF339D09D"><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="H84AC38696F9B46D9A1EDEF2403C102E8"><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="HF9EEEC3A765442E0A2D469A9F1C0069A"><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="HF49176B804384DD9A3A9C485743D17B4"><enum>312.</enum><header>Survivor
reduction for a current spouse or a current domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="HC5D6FA8E2B114148809F3FEA8BF18D97"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8416 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HBBA05B08A5794BD2AF723AAE2A7FDFAA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section
heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(or
domestic partner)</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">spouse</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1404478A707547748A21A88D5FCB62E2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H41516DDE7EB04FEF84F0E9E5FD322C8A"><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="H49A13F2A091D42189345E1765261D10B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAD9CAD408F534EB8B2697617CC12F598"><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="H50A3EF83F0DB47888C2D663532BE488A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (b) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HC83F636DAC844D4CA49B7CBFDCFC0779" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H88FA3CD662C34753BA9D25A2A5FF165C"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H33D76B6814CA4B1A8F11CC348BB50BC6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Upon entry into a
subsequent marriage (or 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H451D2986E7E941E28573FC91773B185B" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(A)</enum><text>within 2 years
after such entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership);
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H85E6AEBF46434459BB72AAB4D25613C8" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if later, within 2
years after—</text>
<clause id="HE92F15A3720C4224B5AA348030B6150E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the death of or
entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by any former spouse
(or former domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a
survivor annuity under section 8445, or</text>
</clause><clause id="HB50E398E0A9044F391711456A79EAD64"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if there was more than 1 surviving former
spouse (or surviving former domestic partner), the death of or entry into a
subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by the last such surviving former
spouse (or surviving former domestic partner),</text>
</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph" indent="paragraph">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></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H450AD40C01484BAFBA6728292D283634" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 subsequent marriage (or entry into the subsequent domestic
partnership).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H7E7EF1C0986B498396B92CFAC1DBCFD1" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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="H249FB783259E4D1F849FD689A63264C9"><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="H79CE2BE2F61D42F28E065D1443230A8B"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H2B2421CEB2494FFFB015217B86EF527C" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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="HB66E7E150C2340E18F444A6ED72474F3"><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="H07C741FB9167464FB8A0BCBB0488524C"><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="H854FB154DCDB46D4BE1EF9F9A21A837E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB615A62E6C0E45DBA79B632833480C5B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the
matter before paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC1387E5ECAF74502801377C912FF81BA" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<subsection id="HF1BA75FC30DA4F56B7863A0B56775051"><enum>(c)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H5C9B0906D4144BAABB0437DBE99E2CBF"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H15D918BEA0DA439CABBEC279A76C535E" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(A)</enum><text>within 2 years
after such employee or Member marries (or enters into a domestic partnership);
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HEAA9DE63FA66446BA0510F2A23D320F7" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if later, within 2
years after—</text>
<clause id="HC3E0114708A94951A1343581E22655E4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the death of or
entry into a subsequent remarriage (or entry into a subsequent domestic
partnership or a marriage by any former domestic partner) by of any former
spouse (or domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a
survivor annuity under section 8445,</text>
</clause><clause id="H0FAF261D366F4321ACF02AF21F80E751"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if more than 1
surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner), the death of or
entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by the last such
surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner),</text>
</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph" indent="paragraph">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="HAEB1E9837CC74699A1CA4B6EBC103FEE"><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="H330F3B33D60045E7BF5A81AED81DA914"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H65B50472309B484E88521D78E297B189"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H56A0933E5ACC4E18AE6F80052C83F859"><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="H01E1881F0B3F4225B73FDBC83BB6E31D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 8416 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE62DBD6163A64C319F9C6AFD068A69CA" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry level="section">8416. Survivor reduction for a current
spouse (or domestic
partner).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H088723B027DF4CE08380AF1ED86819E4"><enum>313.</enum><header>Survivor
reduction for a former spouse or former domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="H84E2427801B34DEF87A48B56618EF2E7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8417 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H659B47B6C1C4487A8788580037FFCD1D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section
heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(or
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="H315C317724F1429F8EFE5B3B37E6CB8A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by inserting <quote>(or a former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8C4A08E116F840E48DA3D13BD9CA3A4B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H14EA0BAEDA10433685F515258077FC37"><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="H5F9837DECAE34C52B2987BE33E8FB41B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (2) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H6CBFAC4FEE874C2D858558F9316CEA79" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H69A7ACF5CFD84D37AF1072260588189E" 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="H29EC6EA933524FA8A69CA94084257861"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="H8895A262B01542B198472AD90AEF11A4"><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="HC728C8C3FE1740D2BB5ABD48E170BFFF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by amending
subparagraph (B) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H2BA9C3FDDF8C4179A44E42F5C0316C63" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H47086AC34EAA4069865DCE28BEAF3107" 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="H19AA6212E2D24AE9A37863ECFE52AE54"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H77492EC687794A82A09FEEC18573A4BF" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry level="section">8417. Survivor reduction for a former
spouse (or former domestic
partner).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H27FD340FD3B248F3958E9279EBE8035A"><enum>314.</enum><header>Survivor
elections; deposit; offsets</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8418(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H72435B7014B74AC08ED2C016FA9B52BE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>marriage</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6819EAF9535D44BD8308339521CE69CB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>former spouse.</quote> inserting <quote>former spouse (or former
domestic partner).</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H535E62AD865845A2B8FEBD37FCC8AB8D"><enum>315.</enum><header>Survivor
reductions; computation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8419 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H577B8BC6EF504B6F974EF444CC42CC9B"><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="HDC857EF5C34F4B4CAD4D36BE5C1FE0E3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (b) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H47C6A6BCBF914E13A7F0445B9F62299C" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H15BA6AD6D3E54AEC8A6E1E0021A8E72F"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD1634AA796734801A3202E9290739476"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HB9F2D31944714020A9F21D95A9309785" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(A)</enum><text>after the death of
the spouse (or domestic partner); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H6E1399D4B96943C19B09F5B62011B64F" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H29706AD188284D8C9BAF15D58BA74A98" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 enters into a domestic partnership)
(or the former domestic partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership
or marries) 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="HB5705D4FA4384E998333D8A8C909F106"><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="HB2175524E30B44BCA6A00AEE08AD672B"><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="H4CD2246B7B654FD18F8538F75022CA4F"><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="HDE03D95AA29B439D95344DE52D5F5488"><enum>316.</enum><header>Insurable
interest reductions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8420 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H437EFB154C9E43F38440D10AFA735E6B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HADD30B9403204D77AAC40084275087C5"><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="HF2FE1A7AB93D428384EB06B5D4C080DB"><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="HF3A5A1B644904DF9A1B974C00A4F6CDB"><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="H370E256A2B22486DB67BB0ED2B2D1C8B"><enum>317.</enum><header>Alternative
forms of annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8420a is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HBB4D03F669F0403BBD225FBB44A09EA3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H09E68867A6054E42A4FB93E70725DEC4"><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="HCCB847ED5BA946BB898DFD33BB2AE14F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by striking <quote>surviving spouse.</quote> inserting <quote>surviving
spouse (or surviving domestic partner).</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC7A76A07BF674B1C928BE685DDE2A391"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6BBED6E57E984BD8B9029714608BF0DA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>married,</quote> inserting <quote>married (or in a domestic
partnership),</quote> and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H680B5127B21D496A9F70C2AEA4138033"><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="H6B50ECEC395349FDA5DEFA49334050B5"><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="H5D4F1105694D4774A67344088498EE6C"><enum>318.</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="HF81E15F8430C418F9654051B0A0E0C5E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HAD95EACA866B4A41B1DD9B2EB72B9DE8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="HB62CFBCC91D5498CB353FD868745FF32"><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="H9FA74FFAB73240FFA71C28501295BB55"><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="H5F71DE660C4A406A98AE4BB64E7C7E0C"><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="H679697889C9F45629F0171D40CAFD298"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idD1BF3572E60A48469E259D6895C49548"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>widow or widower</quote> and inserting <quote>widow or widower (or
surviving partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idF5C115D863F54BD69C19EE1C5DBB1D8C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
“stepchild.” and inserting <quote>stepchild (or a child of a domestic partner
which child is not adopted by or otherwise a child of the employee or
Member).</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id5374FB9D865D49368AEC204964E49B2A"><enum>C</enum><header>Thrift Savings
Plan</header>
<section id="ID02cb0d5d06f44f279618fbb47cf0d6e2"><enum>321.</enum><header>Benefits and
election of benefits</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8433(e) is amended by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7C289D2516064EC3BC1EC06D6DEC8D17" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID915844c9888744c18b9c6d59b957a39c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Notwithstanding
section 8424(d), if an employee, Member, former employee, or former Member dies
and has designated as sole or partial beneficiary his or her spouse (or
domestic partner) at the time of death, or, if an employee, Member, former
employee, or former Member, dies with no designated beneficiary and is survived
by a spouse (or domestic partner), the spouse (or domestic partner) may
maintain the portion of the employee's or Member's account to which the spouse
(or domestic partner) is entitled in accordance with the following
terms:</text>
<subparagraph id="ID0cdf24bd7d894ffcb9bfebad93bcc972"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Subject to the
limitations of subparagraph (B), the spouse (or domestic partner) shall have
the same withdrawal options under subsection (b) as the employee or Member were
the employee or Member living.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDc222b7c2455444f9b806126ff028fc16"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The spouse (or
domestic partner) may not make withdrawals under subsection (g) or (h).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb75317d1eb7843229c08a53f83130c36"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The spouse (or
domestic partner) may not make contributions or transfers to the
account.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd96596002e23495c9693d6de6c721c3f"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The account shall
be disbursed upon the death of the surviving spouse (or surviving domestic
partner). A beneficiary or surviving spouse (or surviving domestic partner) of
a deceased spouse (or domestic partner) who has inherited an account is
ineligible to maintain the inherited spousal
account.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="HF3AD32DB3B62499E847B8E66F9FED2B3"><enum>322.</enum><header>Annuities:
methods of payment; election; purchase</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8434(a)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2051D1C72ACE41CD8E09687F08058C8C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5B328CD58E1B454CB25DE7004B713F9E"><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="HF71994EBF98F43F891101A5C8644BC50"><enum>323.</enum><header>Protections for
spouses, domestic partners, former spouses, and former domestic
partners</header>
<subsection id="H3789F8A2AD9A489A9617BE7D89939705"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8435 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H07F49C7F30A540AFB677F892466C7F83"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section
heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(and
domestic partners and former domestic partners)</header-in-text></quote> after
<quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">spouses and former
spouses</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H84D21DEB47C94B83ABAB6A3E409F4827"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1DBABC9BC1D24DF18730F6C5500599D7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="HCBB5E53F238442C1AEF24CD7B907BCC4"><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="H9C4E8E081ADC439991AC517C249CA04A"><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="H137D775478864CFC8766C00D8AB0353A"><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="HAB69AF1D8C5848F8A131703A2F523A48"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1D01CB25811E415ABC64347E3E2932E9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="HC824515B22C44581918DC324EBB442A5"><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="HA148634A614540418B71522BB0F20673"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote>;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6861F8FED9C0484494EB94A3B0A8FE83"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(A), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H837506CCF8D248CEA6B377D43F368B92"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H353497A8B0AE44A28AE356FA1284E300"><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="H5CC22C863DC140C2BFC8671DE833EF94"><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="H8D372404DAA64927B922A5A830EFB731"><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="HD65760E00C974F3DBD53EE4AFB2EC18D"><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="HDB4AFF038E9F42CEA406F40E6D0B711A"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB7524F006A4448DFA32CA5124D246812"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the
matter before subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD41FB78610D04977A1001A008EF9A013" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H750B96590FE644C3BD980CDD438B1D58"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H5A5E8503B34A4784ADD48D905BC25712"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H9506942F13334800B29D38E85EAF7F3B"><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="H5194B60FA26244559FD47A17B5E76E81"><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="HB2F7FBB509014C63BD5BAAB200662A08"><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="HB97F7C7136D8458FBE1790CFCFBA08BA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45B7C857497E41B48B2E7EE71B23B2BA" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry level="section">8435. Protections for spouses and former
spouses (and domestic partners and former domestic
partners).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="H17634666B46440BD8CF5FA1320E0598A"><enum>324.</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></subtitle><subtitle id="id2C86E43A248043DBBA24F4474234FB98"><enum>D</enum><header>Survivor
annuities</header>
<section id="H82186D53E21B4BC8B632118E8B1113D4"><enum>331.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8441 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H3F741AD3847B452DBEBA5092AE071A88"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA391023AB62040D4812944CFCA83CEB5" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<paragraph id="HAD62063AD2CD4DD8881B3FE11CC0190A"><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="H2751A07105DE440FB7765E3878F62CFE"><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="idA2897963B2E44961BDA697FDB32855A8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>satisfies such
other requirements, based on parenthood and the domestic partnership, as the
Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall by regulation prescribe
based on the definition of a widow or widower under paragraphs (1)(B) and
(2)(B) of this section; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC30A3A41A959487A8F2795A0BDEA8A87"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)
(as so redesignated by paragraph (1))—</text>
<subparagraph id="id2736E67541044D68A01245B58D3F58A2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A)—</text>
<clause id="ID68912b052b1f485ea70c7bdf5d8c2479"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>an unmarried dependent child</quote> and inserting <quote>a dependent
child who is unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership)</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="IDca91d0e46d0e4605a98fefcd138a1190"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in clause (ii),
by striking <quote>stepchild but only if the stepchild</quote> and inserting
<quote>stepchild (or child of the domestic partner not adopted by or otherwise
the child of the employee or Member) but only if the stepchild (or the child of
the domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id4D5070221CC448B4877A08BB9964B0E5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in clause (iv),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID03e3dd2e992a4451b9e9f76c398ced56"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraphs
(B) and (C), by striking <quote>unmarried dependent child</quote> each place
that term appears and inserting <quote>dependent child who is unmarried (and
not in a domestic partnership)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="H8793CF0EEC1742F3B950E5D6F90A1DE2"><enum>332.</enum><header>Rights of a
widow, widower, or surviving partner</header>
<subsection id="H33EEFE0F145A4D18A3FE994955579694"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8442 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H1DE4FC0AFE6B4A77B793643671F0376F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section
heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(or
surviving partner)</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">widow or widower</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H50B7521AF6FC4C87B337521246F00FAF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8C899CF3AFDD4BED9A6B5820DC0DF48B"><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="H366BAD05A8054172A323CD502DD806BB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or entry into a domestic partnership)</quote> after
<quote>marriage</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H923D0E955AEC4CBA9D4B4506C5E473C6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD30A82F7CBA4416584E9C760CF1E6D9A"><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="HD133F5526043456E9621DD04FDDA43CC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H731B391A0265431EA6B3340B5F70A6D5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter in
paragraph (1) before subparagraph (A) thereof, 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="H164307D87445422B8A0D288D6C10B094"><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="H2E7DCD5A2EBD41DCBD2AA64B63B1F8BE"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD61D17FBAA1147CD9906D26987A48902"><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="H34D1EC3F8607411F907807F4C6A2218B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(B), by inserting <quote>(or enters into a domestic partnership) (or in the
case of a surviving partner, enters into a subsequent domestic partnership or
marries)</quote> after <quote>remarries</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1979F54578DB421F9F50E7868CE02D79"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause id="HAF300B4C606B42EE9BAEDB9D93FF29F7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>remarriage before</quote> and inserting <quote>subsequent entry into a
marriage (or domestic partnership) before</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="HCB540BA9AC7B4FD2896F6D1F81031B15"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>remarriage is dissolved by death, divorce, or annulment,</quote> and
inserting <quote>subsequent marriage is dissolved by death, divorce, annulment
(or subsequent domestic partnership is terminated),</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H744641E8D27A499891CA640C4049A3F5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by striking <quote>remarriage;</quote> and inserting <quote>subsequent
marriage (or domestic partnership);</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA2EDACC97890479D96C1C942DFFD86FB"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<clause id="HD5F4A8958A044B548E70B6F00A287DA2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking
“remarriage” and inserting “subsequent entry into a marriage (or domestic
partnership)”; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HEF2E46B04AF14D57928E8A78C382655A"><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="H36F423E012E447B3AC94B2629F274DF4"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H58E3E7372D2F4776B82A2FD1D9E31716"><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="H38A9EC93A2B742B5B1A41BC17A03086E"><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="HED7BE062A452476F9891A6EA1AB44CE2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (2) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HCCC943AEEF684C51BB7C980E018D3D3B" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H187340FFA7DC42E8917C07D6BDDE2BF9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the surviving
spouse of such individual had been previously married to such individual and
subsequently divorced (or the surviving partner of such individual had been
previously in a domestic partnership with such individual which domestic
partnership was subsequently 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="H088F00AB5022471CB5E22CE59F6977FA"><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="H83564B5D91A7424990A7449FB18E5EFA"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in subsection
(h)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1FBCEDBBB06F4E41A1AABCC746E0EC9F"><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="HDEBBA8785F7842D195559DE4588F532C"><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="HA4A148EBA07347D3908FD3E862A2635B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBB565544E83C48C585D1F1C4383B14A3" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry level="section">8442. Rights of a widow or widower (or
surviving
partner).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B286C2C0F474717A02770BA95642F96"><enum>333.</enum><header>Rights of a
child</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8443(b) is
amended by striking subparagraph (E) and the matter following that subparagraph
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5D476DCBB7CD46A7B87B4661809DF536" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="ID51f829bcb28e47419cf3364432a3a9a4"><enum>(E)</enum><text>dies or marries
(or enters into a domestic partnership);</text>
</subparagraph><quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="paragraph">whichever
occurs first. On the death of the surviving wife or husband (or surviving
domestic partner), or former wife or husband (or former domestic partner), or
termination of the annuity of a child, the annuity of any other child or
children shall be recomputed and paid as though the wife or husband (or
domestic partner), former wife or husband (or former domestic partner), or
child had not survived the annuitant, employee, or Member. If the annuity of a
child under this subchapter terminates under subparagraph (E) because of
marriage (or domestic partnership), then, if such marriage (or domestic
partnership) ends, such annuity shall resume on the first day of the month in
which it ends, but only if any lump sum paid is returned to the Fund, and that
individual is not otherwise ineligible for such
annuity.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="HB600A44976AA4FBD95C337CDDD74056B"><enum>334.</enum><header>Rights of a
former spouse or former domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="H9E122D49028548FC9A79BF8FFA8B92B9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8445 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE19C668B3D8747B5BF606BB8F3B758A3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section
heading, by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(or
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="HDB1960F6FF694F16BBDBEBB2F874F394"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H28F4609F67054EA391E23E41280C565F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2874B881615947D793EAB5211AAAB3A2"><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="HEA1ED66233B741D68BA12B77295DEDA8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC7DAE32634204D7E882A20F5CF28873F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(2), by inserting “(or enters into a domestic partnership) (or the former
domestic partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership or marries)”
after “remarries”;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H200C97E328CE4B749B872763104B0A7C"><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="HA61B279111EC4BDBB1ADE733AC9D67F2"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (h) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H5FAF18BA93F949B7BBC6F484984934A7" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HEB75A92A648F4640AA243E02BF7A19D0"><enum>(h)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H168B9F8CF9D248CF875BFB3C6EE1282B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Subsection (c)(2), to
the extent that it provides for termination of a survivor annuity because of a
subsequent entry into a marriage (or 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H650E497605674DF38061EE958C63DFA8" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A subsequent entry
into a marriage (or 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="HE00BFBD2F5AF43DDB42D08B659EB564D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H077E7C5A0C944AF89303AC5BF0E40743" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<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></subtitle><subtitle id="id06410D31F7B643B7B94AAFEFFFBF825C"><enum>E</enum><header>General
administrative provisions</header>
<section id="HFEEE12DCC3EE449AAE90D76CB733EA17"><enum>341.</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 (and
domestic partners), former spouses (and former domestic partners), and
survivors</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="HC7A7A54DAC0C4FB1BCC2E206827FF321"><enum>342.</enum><header>Cost-of-living
adjustments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8462(c) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8505DED097F1405FB74EF17C98543A5C"><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="H80C822650B374962A6A0079DCD4CF917"><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="HED92B3CE462345D8B211D11CFD24123F"><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></subtitle><subtitle id="id090DD2EBAD4A496699FDCF42E280CAF4"><enum>F</enum><header>Federal Retirement
Thrift Investment Management System</header>
<section id="H7763157509F94FB9AEEB5706114DCFD0"><enum>351.</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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="HADFEFEE357274E3697F033AD40FA54F5" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H68384534C24C424E9DE38D0DD9CBFF13"><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></subtitle><enum>IV</enum><header>Insurance
benefits</header>
<section id="HF79EEE672DF74674812751E1106FE85A"><enum>401.</enum><header>Life
insurance</header>
<subsection id="HD64CACBCC75D4AD390331A492D8E6B13"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 87 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H179524D4234A4C2A8FACFAADA5F6649F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8701(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HD53389BFB39B4571B7FECBCF9CC5E1B1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause id="id3E741FECB888443F876DB903C6430FF4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="IDc1570cffba174594bfdd9002a871dd2b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by striking <quote>stepchild or foster child (but only if the
stepchild</quote> and inserting <quote>stepchild (or child of the domestic
partner of the individual not adopted by or otherwise the child of the
individual) or foster child (but only if the stepchild (or the child of the
domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb9ee7b8116d2450193b94cffaee8efcb"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7605418FFE2D453DAD3C9A9FD1686B6D" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID09ba2c9db31f4cd2a1292e79784b6739"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For the purpose of
this subsection, <term>domestic partner</term> has the meaning given under
section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEF663BFB988746CE8FC8FF7EC08DE933"><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="H23CA8DB24858493CA5C0B8D0E5195DF1"><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="HCDD33C2E026648D3876895588D91A931"><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="HA72751A406EB42F2A5B2FCD0046AB27C"><enum>402.</enum><header>Health
insurance</header>
<subsection id="H7F1B52C857D3497886F941F0F6F610EF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8901 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H90F14580C2EA42A19AEAF6CF762D32F5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph
(5)—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDfe75ee210c5e4919bf0f509e4bed0ffc"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter
before subparagraph (A)—</text>
<clause id="ID0ac982920d05483d8fb2bf222cc7c917"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="IDabf22c8607af49138a1073d3ff8b1e33"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>an unmarried dependent child</quote> and inserting <quote>a dependent
child who is unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership) and
is</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd909e85dbf1b45f89aada8f2ec2fb82c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by inserting <quote>(or a child of the domestic partner not adopted by or
otherwise the child of the employee or annuitant)</quote> after
<quote>stepchild</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID872aa40cdd2249c49df91492c9d51dfa"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the matter
following subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>an unmarried dependent child
regardless of age</quote> and inserting <quote>a dependent child regardless of
age who is unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H87387F530C3C496F9E63FCA3FADADB3B"><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="IDab7103e46994437298e5ff8f3ee86bf0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph
(10)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idC3E2117A13384B42B370A4A17D633E3D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by inserting <quote>(or entered into a domestic partnership)</quote> after
<quote>remarried</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8BD998BA7ABC47FAA83AAE4270281D6F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id665161E043DA48398B48ACA65561B384"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraph (11) as paragraph (12), and by inserting after paragraph (10) the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD83FFA231CF04348970AF33E93EEFEF6" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<paragraph id="H7FEC74237ACF4DE789761AB4645D865D"><enum>(11)</enum><text><term>former
domestic partner</term> means a former domestic partner of an employee, former
employee, or annuitant—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBD3259604DA34D8F9BD99D57BAEBC82D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who has not
entered into another domestic partnership (or married) before age 55 after the
domestic partnership to the employee, former employee, or annuitant was
terminated;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB8B37A709B88483A9152BE12079655EE"><enum>(B)</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="H362458B615F54686B2EB92B372000E03"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2AE3CD004AD6475A9EE1DB224DCAE570"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H9C3A24073DFF4017B9A08EB6000973DE" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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 changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="H716664B51F73407398809CFEAE111CC4" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><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><continuation-text changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" continuation-text-level="subparagraph" reported-display-style="strikethrough">except that such term shall not
include any such former domestic partner of a former employee whose domestic
partnership was terminated after the former employee’s separation from the
service (other than by retirement).</continuation-text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID382ab1762cd543fe873f22a77e2c523b"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking the
period at the end of paragraph (12) (as redesignated) and inserting <quote>;
and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id31517EE71FE2448CAF71904AEE839BD1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1746272B5ACA49EFB87EE0C0C3D44DC1" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="IDd9e7a4672ea74d0f86e8f39b35d069fd"><enum>(13)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7E9CB8ABC136409F92E3E6E5919211F2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contracting
authority</header><text>Section 8902 is amended in subsections (g), (j), and
(k)(1), by striking <quote>former spouse,</quote> each place it appears and
inserting <quote>former spouse (or former domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB011C0D2C4C34D8D803315ED1914A9FC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Debarment and
other sanctions</header><text>Section 8902a(a)(1)(B) is amended by inserting
<quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>or former
spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB814A231421941828CC41EE483A04157"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Health benefits
plans</header><text>Section 8903(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idF699B833CAB548D3BEB817823F68A2C7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>former spouses,</quote> and inserting <quote>former spouses (or former
domestic partners),</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id97ABA7FC88404DF49574CFB66E53986A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
“former spouse,” and inserting “former spouse (or former domestic
partner),”.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HCBC06D448ED04C209986BF3639B6D28E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Election of
coverage</header><text>Section 8905 is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H13F98DADBC7C4F7A9A2F79FE293F4421"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06963450EC0741BABBB4B97583E7FC11" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H9F47CB5611AF4D2F8DEF53BA839D8298" 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="HFEDB6588526A4352B5AD65BDEF7D058B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to former spouses
and former domestic partners; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H8CF601A4FCC84706A4A57D6B0889F3E4"><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="H7ED2902D9134436DAA2A7689B0782CD7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8739942934584D758F4BF71135538AB0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>has a spouse</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0DAB931F239140989E291B2A147DA320"><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="HA0F39BD95E17475A9C9F79138A36E1EC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsections (f)
and (g), by striking <quote>former spouse,</quote> each place it appears and
inserting <quote>former spouse (or former domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H068A7F0B8AFF4B22BDB2B1F3513EC5CB"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Continued
coverage</header><text>Section 8905a is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H04A2F342D6F94C1481E9EB417BF984BF" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<subsection commented="no" id="H52098C520DC34B0EB0399F15F62E9264"><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="H78BBDC258E9E42359E4A26FE4BDF58F6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to former spouses
(and former domestic partners); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H35D713FA2E014590A69AB57FC86B17EC"><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="HDC550A8D3CD1447BAB7EE120A3CF4566"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Coverage of
restored employees and survivor or disability annuitants</header><text>Section
8908(b) is amended by striking “remarriage and is later restored” and inserting
<quote>having entered into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) and
is later restored (or a surviving domestic partner whose survivor annuity under
this title was terminated because of having entered into a subsequent domestic
partnership or a marriage and is later restored)</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID1e143cc46a674e23a2a0d56e4eec0347"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Employees health
benefits fund</header><text>Section 8909(d) is amended by striking
<quote>former spouse,</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>former
spouse (or former domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDbb05fc943ec345f3aa490f3a68fa5004"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Section
8913(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID3422966b8b5347eaac2a34d0ebf96cb3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(and former domestic partners)</quote> after <quote>and former
spouses</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDeaed86ff022a4333b9abeaa261b3da88"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>or former
spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HD4C42EA5BA7D48199FC77F62DBEB64E2"><enum>(j)</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="HC14405211F684FF7BC8940CC7911A2B2"><enum>403.</enum><header>Enhanced dental
benefits</header>
<subsection id="H940EEA7AA7614F36AC8F59B30AE7517C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 89A is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H4F7CC373D225493A9F3FEA41500973BC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8956(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3CD582128FE84CC784399B772C3532B7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>or domestic partner</quote> after <quote>a spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC8A9F6E71F2E41CAAA19DB5CAFDF492E"><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="ID1758ece5f6714ebca5e495cc91e460c9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 8957,
by striking <quote>surviving spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>surviving
spouse (or surviving domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HFC89D52F16284B91B2AA48B25701475D"><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="H4B6F312B46E242D4B0F9B7E5D908935B"><enum>404.</enum><header>Enhanced vision
benefits</header>
<subsection id="H1ABBDACDBF93436482AED5F24A75AB9B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 89B is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H4A6088523473471392923980E7D51F0F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8986(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H81E5EB7C981B45F184A757BC4E4AD435"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>a spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE7826A67C2E24AFDA48D3D6ECBB5F764"><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="ID5c4e1c71fbdd466489bde091d4c5aeb3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 8987,
by striking <quote>surviving spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>surviving
spouse (or surviving domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H17DC4B470CC4417980275293D14CBE97"><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="H7B9D64DF7CF846128056D58199D6EC1F"><enum>405.</enum><header>Long-term care
insurance</header>
<subsection id="H96E1811C83954E4787BFE0B83B4B7F3E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 90 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HDC60C0D4EBB845BDBF116690DD68AAD2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
9001(5), by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E) and by inserting
after subparagraph (C) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDDD0D480597541579467498E2F9C2495" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="ID42796fc4b9fb45b1935654ebfd6447e5"><enum>(D)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idA47A3F3E3C95409FA757B5C19AE2839B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a domestic partner (as
that term is defined in section 2501) of an individual described in paragraph
(1), (2), (3), or (4);</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID993a218f855a490f854ad1548aec07af" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a child of a
domestic partner referred to in clause (i), if such child is at least 18 years
of age; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="IDf63d8b90e148452385a9cac5a96571df" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a parent of a
domestic partner of an individual referred to in paragraph (1) or
(3).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H14CBC9505ED6450FA71FD90D4712FE82"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section
9002(e)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HAAF610E3DCA24C7DBC2B515BBDA80DF3"><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="HCCA3C0F8FD7144169409192E2A0D2495"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HEADF9015AB0E4CD78BA6A9DFB318FBDD"><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="idB4650DA6B6474624A7AF4970BD0199ED"><enum>501.</enum><header>Reimbursement
for taxes incurred on money received for travel expenses</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="HEE96C013E8964CFDA1A226660CB22FA4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5706c is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H3058B2B04B63420EAB57F872B12668E9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by striking <quote>(if filing jointly),</quote> and inserting <quote>(if filing
jointly) (or by an employee and such employee’s domestic partner (as that term
is defined under section 2501), if joint filing is allowed and they file
jointly),</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H602787C4883C4A54A4DB9BC981EAA0FF"><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="H13CC847C22D749FC9FB5805B0A1C7703"><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="ID56b0575ad078482d93a7a55597c2f216"><enum>502.</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5721 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="IDf03d2b27249b4b89af03be20f23922a5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (6),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID97f35c3cb52249a6840375b069f5ad50"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (7),
by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID035518dc22b34a50956b546ff365755c"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7C02B386DD034DA5AB067796630EAFDD" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID46aa8f01106e49bfa45b08ad0d3f8ef2"><enum>(8)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> has the meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H5BA89E8EDE3B4D25BD5142A721021F3B"><enum>503.</enum><header>Relocation
expenses of employees transferred or reemployed</header>
<subsection id="HB0093946B69840D4AEBAB164010C600D"><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="HC2ACABFA44EA48589B65EC21A21E246A"><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="H599B93B23A3447C88922ABFD06DD20F1"><enum>504.</enum><header>Taxes on
reimbursements for travel, transportation, and relocation expenses of employees
transferred</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H006D8BAE9B61417CB6960ABAC1A998A8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5724b is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H0D3ED79502414E139672255BFCD205BC"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking “(if filing
jointly),” and inserting “by an employee and such employee’s spouse (or, where
allowable, such employee’s domestic partner), if filing jointly,”; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HC7D59FB5ED034CF08C4C6AED860FAC64"><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 id="HA76827E6404C4F45B1444156D0816161"><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="HCCBC05F4A5F040D3B1D481B90978674E"><enum>505.</enum><header>Relocation
expenses of an employee who is performing an extended assignment</header>
<subsection id="H06C70DFF7C8E48F6BA5632847380557D"><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="HFE4B4060CDA44ADFA0641FBAE69D67B0"><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><section id="ID3744deccf9df48918318fd4d1a462d64"><enum>506.</enum><header>Transportation
of family members incident to repatriation of employees held
captive</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5760(c) is
amended by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>, and includes
the domestic partner (as defined under section 2501) of an employee described
in subsection (b).</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="IDf9e2ecf7458f4885850ab4c64a2c16d4"><enum>507.</enum><header>Regulations to
include domestic partners</header>
<subsection id="IDcea208bbc861405d9c3d8528fdddd443"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Chapter 57 is amended by adding after section 5761 the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id18C4DF6290214D06B5EEF4B07AC10E2C" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<section id="ID90da50254c93471ab27841d1611a4db3"><enum>5762.</enum><header>Regulations to
include domestic partners</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Regulations prescribed under, or to
administer provisions of, this chapter shall include a domestic partner (as
defined under section 2501) within the meaning of the terms <quote>immediate
family</quote> and
<quote>dependent</quote>.</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="ID497caef9c7be4d0f9d665cc9959d3b37"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter 57 is
amended by adding after the item relating to section 5761 the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id77ef2e7b-5b43-457b-9958-d072c4bb26fe" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<toc changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" reported-display-style="strikethrough">
<toc-entry idref="ID90da50254c93471ab27841d1611a4db3" level="section">5762. Regulations to include domestic
partners.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Compensation for
work injuries</header>
<section id="HD71096BD73454F04AD165DA4EC453147"><enum>601.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8101 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idF916CEB9F5B846D49F34DEF22F487441"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (8),
by striking <quote>married brothers or married sisters;</quote> and inserting
<quote>any brother or sister who is married (or is in a domestic
partnership);</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idEB1417D033064ADD9157F2EB929FAF2A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(9)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6EA6C717DD4C45BDBD631182C3DB71F2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or children of the employee’s domestic partner not adopted by or
otherwise the children of the employee)</quote> after
<quote>stepchildren</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0743C52BBB6648C6BF4DE63F5C8D7AC9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
“married children” and inserting <quote>any child who is married (or in a
domestic partnership)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H94BFCD2625DA465099AA63884490ADDF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (18),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id847937FFE786474CA4F6024A7FBA7FBC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in paragraph (19),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H68747C7044BB4D4C845635FDE3135083"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in paragraph (20),
by striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H46F7F87C1FA741A09E7888D50D9C1A1B"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC7DF1F4445EA41DAA20C75B8F64082ED" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="IDdc9558bc26c74d1d83c6b613e603729a"><enum>(21)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> means an individual who is in a domestic partnership with
another individual, as determined by the Secretary of Labor for purposes of
this subchapter under regulations issued by the Secretary, in consultation with
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID4b3fed2d90184f0d87da582d8ed73afa"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who are of the
same sex;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID61f8cfa049c94e31b6e4975088b18c44"><enum>(B)</enum><text>at least 1 of whom
is an employee or an individual otherwise eligible for coverage under this
subchapter (or any application or extension thereof) based on such individual’s
employment or other service;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDfc440aa4c3c14388a74b7ffe74356d10"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id2A46C61078A74F11B13C5842931DB43B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who are in a committed
domestic-partnership relationship with each other satisfying the conditions in
clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) and intend to remain so indefinitely;</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="IDa740799c3a574370b53e6fd1342bbb7d" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>who have a common
residence and intend to continue to do so (or would have a common residence,
but are prevented from doing so because of such reasons as an assignment abroad
or other employment-related factors, financial considerations, family
responsibilities or other such reasons);</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID9325fb8a4a0a49ffaccb71873f8d4eae" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>who share
responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s welfare and financial
obligations; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID5a38544806d74c1483bf5f9ec54f4569" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>neither of whom
is married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone except each
other;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe4e6a5d76f464c6f83e27933bb1b4fcb"><enum>(D)</enum><text>who are at least
18 years of age and mentally competent to consent to a contract; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID3288e106951f48b499648e7a24604be8"><enum>(E)</enum><text>who are not
related to each other by blood in a way that would prohibit legal marriage
between individuals otherwise eligible to marry in the jurisdiction (or, if
applicable, in any jurisdiction) in which the individuals have a common
residence; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID0da82294d32f4d3e8e7ca136498f9d07"><enum>(22)</enum><text><term>surviving
partner</term> means the domestic partner in a domestic partnership with the
decedent at the time of his or her
death.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H1519221E2D6D4D0CA31402EC34C40593"><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="HE5BE4C89BBD745AA8A37C8825CB20A51"><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="H2CBCBE9CF8304AA5A961F235887A7F7B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(C), by inserting <quote>(or children of the employee’s domestic partner not
adopted by or otherwise the children of the employee)</quote> after
<quote>stepchildren</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H2AEA659640904659903F96371DFA4B29"><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="H645CF7479A02415C940CA322374D547D"><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="H7D8A488E9C434136BA085C099C59AD62"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in clause
(ii)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1917FD27AF6649919A9157EA159F97BA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or a surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>a widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H55D8D9B711074ED5A520FCC9324F07B9"><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="HB2FCD90E542A444FAFCB852BD839D419"><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="H4F808808BE28408E98746E0869E254DA"><enum>604.</enum><header>Augmented
compensation for dependents</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8110(a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2AEF3F88F40249FD8821EE43363F2A7E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id834C0D2D2CEF4CE0A9F142200D9EC8CB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>an unmarried child</quote> and inserting <quote>a child who is unmarried
(and not in a domestic partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA50C47AE59454F649D2B02A3241BCB7E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDf8ea21e84a284adb8907a94bcd0cbee5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4),
by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID35327821f7aa433ba0add892f0ad1f0d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (4) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7CD335B6CE1744608BFC4BC6C6DD1D5E" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID91cc0273f35d43fd80b852295f3b2a67"><enum>(5)</enum><text>a domestic
partner, if—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDcc096daf6e4f45c489efe135acbaa259"><enum>(A)</enum><text>he or she is a
member of the same household as the employee;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID41e6b159d5be4d64a9eaa94fb2ba5e5c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>he or she is
receiving regular contributions from the employee for his or her support;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDc1c1d205f48f4486ab6c69e184767d99"><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>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idC2B5C15128324506B31FD637FC16D114"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in the last
sentence, by striking “he marries.” and inserting “he marries (or enters into a
domestic partnership).”.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HC325996924B44D278F3F8DAC6150C3F7"><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="H116DE4224CCA446288757A5C27EA0A09"><enum>606.</enum><header>Compensation in
case of death</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8133 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H14E1800CF09345AC88372DDAB7706991"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0A4996EEF1CA4BC5BD04A42038F3AFD4"><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="HC04DC5E6BB574F30B6832FD64A40F31F"><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="H032B0A29B7B54CDDB07E392158B2ECFD"><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="HA26AB0F2401C4F6CAE7FEB8AAE4BDCDF"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraphs (4)
and (5), by striking “widower,” and inserting “widower (or surviving partner),”
each place it appears; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H95515F202B99473E847127B183F42E7E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H32A740E89E2042B2B9D2CA8493335C80"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (1) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC54560EC65B445C49041207DC22B8195" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<paragraph id="H2139909ED20E41BE9B051364154A9DFF"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a widow or widower dies or remarries (or
enters into a domestic partnership) (or a surviving partner dies or enters into
a subsequent domestic partnership or marries) before reaching age
55;</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDaaa906f0dc4844ff97808b8c95af7cbd"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraphs (2)
and (3), by striking <quote>marries,</quote> each place that term appears and
inserting <quote>marries (or enters into a domestic partnership),</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID9911442eae2446d1a63df071bad7b899"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the matter
following paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="idD356771308B84FA585A39ADA54FC5908"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the first
sentence, by striking <quote>marries.</quote> and inserting <quote>marries (or
enters into a domestic partnership).</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H9C5D2F4074494727A7FC50F440E3630A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the second
sentence, by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner) (or a surviving partner who
has entitlements to benefits under this title derived from more than 1 domestic
partner or spouse)</quote> after <quote>husband or wife</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HC66F976CDDF34179B0227FE5772A4CEF"><enum>607.</enum><header>Lump-sum
payment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8135 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID0ae136595eeb4af4b59924e64d5c0d56"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf495df098c9b4f83876af77bec61763c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (b) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H02E12D8526D14C9DB2D421264D2176FC" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="USC">
<subsection id="HCD8EEB74100F45F8BD717F93F3A2004F"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A widow or widower on remarriage (or on
entry into a domestic partnership) before reaching age 55 (or a surviving
partner on entry into a subsequent domestic partnership or on marriage before
age 55) who is entitled to compensation under section 8133 of this title, shall
be paid a lump sum equal to 24 times the monthly compensation payment
(excluding compensation on account of another individual) to which that
individual was entitled immediately before the remarriage (or entry into a
domestic partnership) (or, in the case of a surviving partner, immediately
before entry into the subsequent domestic partnership or the
marriage).</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="idCD90C3F3CA5642659CBC2C2C72EB37B3"><enum>608.</enum><header>Employees of
nonappropriated fund instrumentalities</header>
<subsection id="idBCDA34BF9A224891BD7592E32B740830"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8171 is
amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3ECE9EA3DE5D4B2D9FEBFDF2273C211B" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID84e3dd25fc3b4a4db0adb2aa5b11dea8"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id29624002F61C4E178D8F9EDBEA3E96C3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the purpose of this
section—</text>
<subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id87FB483AFFAC4BC5881D735644E2F208" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the term
<term>domestic partner</term> means an individual who is in a domestic
partnership with another individual, as determined by the Secretary of Labor
for purposes of this subchapter under regulations issued by the Secretary, in
consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management—</text>
<clause id="id76B5E07F59354E7EA69E5941095BDCF8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who are of the
same sex;</text>
</clause><clause id="id79FC876CC8D74474BDA5B35B5C3CB3AF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>at least 1 of
whom is an employee or an individual otherwise eligible for coverage under this
subchapter (or any application or extension thereof) based on such individual’s
employment or other service;</text>
</clause><clause id="id4129EF7DF42848D995668EA2B4F6D222"><enum>(iii)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idC0C732D6A9E44CFBA1AF0AFE1E2D6702"><enum>(I)</enum><text>who are in a committed
domestic-partnership relationship with each other satisfying the conditions in
subclauses (II), (III), and (IV) and intend to remain so indefinitely;</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idEDF7EB90A4524344A3482C2DB357AF79" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(II)</enum><text>who have a common
residence and intend to continue to do so (or would have a common residence,
but are prevented from doing so because of such reasons as an assignment abroad
or other employment-related factors, financial considerations, family
responsibilities or other such reasons);</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id0E3C97F1601145029BA2FF23EC2D244A" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(III)</enum><text>who share
responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s welfare and financial
obligations; and</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idCB25AE59893244109CDDD92ED50EC998" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>neither of whom
is married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone except each
other;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idAFDFA83425D646E5B8943A2CB206EC42"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>who are at least
18 years of age and mentally competent to consent to a contract; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id86DD8CF145264200876F3F8BA25A3BEE"><enum>(v)</enum><text>who are not
related to each other by blood in a way that would prohibit legal marriage
between individuals otherwise eligible to marry in the jurisdiction (or, if
applicable, in any jurisdiction) in which the individuals have a common
residence; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID875e61be5d8c42bfa610adda357645bd" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the term
<term>surviving partner</term> means the decedent’s domestic partner at the
time of his or her death.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ID8ad5d02b76924173b7718ed686e3a537" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In the application
of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act under this
subchapter—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID498bd12f15ee42acbe1f6cbc492a589b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>section 2(14) of
that Act shall apply as though—</text>
<clause id="ID636c75133711422e83d5b21e8afaf270"><enum>(i)</enum><text><quote>(or child
of the domestic partner of an employee or volunteer referred to in section
8171(a) of title 5, United States Code)</quote> were inserted after
‘stepchild’; and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID1c692899f50e46ceabe1feef66eed518"><enum>(ii)</enum><text><quote>(or
children in domestic partnerships)</quote> were inserted after <quote>married
children</quote> and <quote>(or brothers or sisters in domestic
partnerships)</quote> were inserted after <quote>married
sisters</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID84fb190286034bec8e3d41c972fd4a05"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in section 8(d)(1)
of that Act—</text>
<clause id="IDcd4d793c3ac74a3ab9fd37aea5eb3cbd"><enum>(i)</enum><text>subparagraphs (A),
(C), and (D) shall apply as though <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> were
inserted after <quote>widow or widower</quote> each place it appears;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="IDf25737cc0d094763a60e2261c58a7237"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subparagraph (D)
shall apply as though <quote>wife, husband,</quote> were struck and <quote>wife
or husband (or domestic partner)</quote> were inserted; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDc4d0cc91492f4fff95df5396053df42d"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in section 9 of
that Act—</text>
<clause id="ID562e17e037c940878d56a9ce0170ee1b"><enum>(i)</enum><text>subsection (b)
shall apply as though the portion of the first sentence up to and including the
sixth comma reads as follows: <quote>If there be a widow or widower (or
surviving partner) and no child of the deceased, to such widow or widower (or
surviving partner) 50 per centum of the average wages of the deceased, during
widowhood, or dependent widowerhood (or during the life of the surviving
partner, as the case may be), with 2 years’ compensation in 1 sum upon
remarriage (or entry into a domestic partnership) of such widow or widower (or
entry into another domestic partnership or marriage of such surviving partner);
and if there be a surviving child or children of the deceased, the additional
amount of 16<fraction>2/3</fraction> per centum of such wages for each such
child; in case of the death or remarriage (or entry into a domestic
partnership) of such widow or widower (or entry into another domestic
partnership or a marriage of such surviving partner)</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID4b7aae899dac414bb866bc82653a413b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subsection (c)
shall apply as though the portion of the subsection up to and including the
fourth comma reads as follows: ‘If there be 1 surviving child of the deceased,
but no widow or widower (or surviving partner), then for the support of such
child 50 per centum of the wages of the deceased; and if there be more than 1
surviving child of the deceased, but no widow or dependent husband (or
surviving partner),’;</text>
</clause><clause id="ID033e89da14ee4ba893f2d7f5a4c4482c"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>subsection (d)
shall apply as though—</text>
<subclause id="ID76f5e040cb66416a94c3827a9693a35c"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the portion of the
first sentence up through the word <quote>children</quote> reads as follows:
‘If there be no surviving wife or husband (or surviving domestic partner) or
child, or if the amount payable to a surviving wife or husband (or surviving
domestic partner) and to children’; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="IDf2e7451990a54d269244a077d7e3dabb"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the second
sentence reads as follows: ‘But in no case shall the aggregate amount payable
under this subsection exceed the difference between 66<fraction>2/3</fraction>
per centum of such wages and the amount payable as hereinbefore provided to
widow or widower (or surviving partner) and for the support of surviving child
or children.’;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="ID10e55ea7605a43b688c69d191dcb6393"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>subsection (g)
shall apply as though the term <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote>
were inserted after <quote>surviving wife</quote> each place it appears;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id3282DF37A248475ABC6C157928E752F7"><enum>(v)</enum><text>section
31(b)(2)(C) shall apply as though the term <term>(or domestic partner)</term>
were inserted after
<quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="ID5b3d47b1314e4f52b196cb03c0bc6f80"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exclusive
liability</header><text>Section 8173 is amended by striking
<quote>spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic
partner),</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H27A8BCB8B33A4EBC976FBEC8C6031D8C"><enum>609.</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<subsection id="HE8E4EE608D1D4818A85C8E50E6064118"><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="H8173B9B6C60044AFBE57D6C5AEDB24F6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall take effect
on the date of enactment of this Act; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2ADD3679113B4894B41B28AF8163F174"><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="HFDEEDA42EDD240DC87A2707C5D2C6158"><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="H1B91558FA42E4A52B8FFD30FB4A408CC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>unless timely
claim therefor is filed in accordance with the provisions of section 8122 or
8193 of title 5, United States Code (as applicable), and subsection (c);
or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0423B2F118A9438E88704A992024A81A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>with respect to
any period commencing before the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H46BF2224885C4C50807BDB30C1022827"><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="H0B868143022745B399966E9C31DA5BF6"><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="H3942C62457C94966A4B2260977440271"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the timeliness of
any such claim, if not precluded by paragraph (1), shall be determined—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0EEFC742652146C28D8C60F2FE1D0E5B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by applying the
provisions of such section 8122 or 8193 (as applicable); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA19E261735CF41ACBD615FBE8E57D207"><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 the provisions of section 2502(a) of title 5, United
States Code (as added by section 101 of this Act) become effective.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9CDF14AF5E254AFCA476042B2D3AA099"><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>Employee leave;
death or captivity compensation; other employee benefits </header>
<section id="H6B5AAFAA7E9A471CA912587DAE9C6FE6"><enum>701.</enum><header>Voluntary
transfers of leave; Voluntary Leave Bank Program</header>
<subsection id="ID816335284f3f421e89f649cc72a01681"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Voluntary
transfers of leave</header><text>Section 6333 is amended by adding at the end
the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9834B35B5FCE4A73B2C112BD228DD365" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="IDa219e0c2af9d433aac75bf764897b6e6"><enum>(d)</enum><text>Regulations to
carry out this section shall include provisions to ensure that, in the
administration of this section, a domestic partner (as that term is defined in
section 2501) shall be afforded the same status as a
spouse.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="ID4f9313b7821f4739ac4d1360f1aefa60"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Voluntary leave
bank program</header><text>Section 6362 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id413046DA07D342E8894439D2CB1B512E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(a)</quote> before <quote>Notwithstanding</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idE431464C409E44EF841B18273A9028C7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF82B857C59FB4A1492538799E88A69E8" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection id="ID38ec71568b334f638fcb221e3705f4f8"><enum>(b)</enum><text>The established
program under this section shall include provisions to ensure that, in the
administration of this section, a domestic partner (as that term is defined in
section 2501) shall be afforded the same status as a
spouse.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H437223E51C714A6FA1F0A85F2C65477D"><enum>702.</enum><header>Family and
medical leave</header>
<subsection id="id53B608320D2C41ABA00E571D5521B8AF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header>
<paragraph id="H6716BFED856B4689BC8B676EFE840CD0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6381 is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="id93B4702766334402B3A115A419C8A39F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (6), in the matter before
subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>parentis,</quote> and inserting
<quote>parentis (or a biological, adopted, or foster child of the domestic
partner of the employee),</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDdf13de7893374579a8fdbb7d3eb3e2db"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (11),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDb840401706964874acd5464092cb6b41"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (12),
by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe98f1236cb984bfcb3d958a51659dc7a"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by adding after
paragraph (12) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB92B215453D647F2AD59AE4D06554AEC" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID265ff8c7f47943979747a7d467258a38"><enum>(13)</enum><text>the term
<term>domestic partner</term> has the meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC486703E8971476C983D3E2AF30AAC26"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Leave
requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6382 is
amended by striking <quote>spouse,</quote> each place that term appears and
inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H99DD08531C3F42B4BC04D2EA85AE8842"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idA6D65C9472614BE89903E132D9AFCF5C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Congressional
Accountability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202 of
the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1312) is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95B146FE80114AF8B9B58F0A47931ACD" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" id="id7146410B6793426AAED0490FEBC785B4"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Coverage of
employees with domestic partners</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id30E4432C9DB84221BC79E54161197556"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of
domestic partner</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>domestic
partner</term> has the meaning given under section 2501 of title 5, United
States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDdf86699d4e924037af4bc95ead89d3cd"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application to
covered employees</header><text>In the application of the Family and Medical
Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) under subsection (a)(1) as to a
covered employee who has a domestic partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID33f77aa8dd894ba1bb1be60f405a21a1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>sections 102
through 105 of that Act shall apply as though <quote>domestic partner</quote>
were inserted after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears in those
sections;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID3e22d5bf54484e73aeb00c11e2dc905f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 101(12) of
that Act shall apply as though a child of the domestic partner of a covered
employee, which child meets the conditions of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of that
section, were included in the term <quote>son or daughter</quote> as defined in
that section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd290e5fe35db4b909847d4a493f86c9b"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the covered
employee and the domestic partner of the covered employee are employed by the
same employing office, the limit on the aggregate number of workweeks of leave
to which both may be entitled, as stated in section 102(f) of that Act, shall
apply.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idB9B420244E7F4EE98FE6A3390B442C89"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application to
employees of the Government Accountability Office</header><text>In the
application of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et
seq.) as to an employee of the Government Accountability Office who has a
domestic partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID5dd1e016a90a4ec893ad76fb89afff04"><enum>(A)</enum><text>sections 102
through 105 of that Act shall apply as though <quote>domestic partner</quote>
were inserted after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears in those
sections;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd4e291d0fbf94fbe996a986abaf772a7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 101(12) of
that Act shall apply as though a child of the domestic partner of the employee,
which child meets the conditions of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of that section,
were included in the term <quote>son or daughter</quote> as defined in that
section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID97d9d589f2bc4501ac2dfe1c3e850142"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in any case in
which the employee and the domestic partner of the employee are both employed
by the Government Accountability Office, the limit on the aggregate number of
workweeks of leave to which both may be entitled, as stated in section 102(f)
of that Act, shall
apply.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id54E983BF3C1C424087C8BC79D4ACCA4F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Presidential and
Executive Office Accountability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 412 of title 3, United States Code,
is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB55543A4A710488B9A2EF3BE7362FAC3" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" id="id67ACE3BD7B2A4D1A94DE8E26A8ECC144"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Coverage of
employees with domestic partners</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id845BEA3277014204A749C83283DCE4BC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of
domestic partner</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>domestic
partner</term> has the meaning given under section 2501 of title 5.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDd4c6b80fdec54aa8b5561f042148a03b"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application to
covered employees</header><text>In the application of the Family and Medical
Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) under subsection (a)(1) as to a
covered employee who has a domestic partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDea7687f382494213a95d1f31d6e9bc9d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>sections 102
through 105 of that Act shall apply as though <quote>domestic partner</quote>
were inserted after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears in those
sections;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID3e928e5de2884b83b13b8b04a991b526"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 101(12) of
that Act shall apply as though a child of the domestic partner of a covered
employee, which child meets the conditions of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of that
section, shall be deemed to be included in the term <quote>son or
daughter</quote> as defined in that section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID4cbc8bf20b8e4aaab35bc07c109cc1bd"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the covered
employee and the domestic partner of the covered employee are employed by the
same employing office, the limit on the aggregate number of workweeks of leave
to which both may be entitled, as stated in section 102(f) of that Act, shall
apply.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="HFB91BFE03DE34F549465BBF0BA9BA01D"><enum>703.</enum><header>Settlement of
accounts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5582(b) is
amended by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner (as defined under
section 2501))</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="IDff68a26d87f0499984d280dc4538403c"><enum>704.</enum><header>Payments to
missing employees</header>
<subsection id="ID66bffaa49aac4d06b9437381ddb55503"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>Section
5561 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ID5c41b829ecd8497abdef514b7dc314b5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID1f712b5d29a2433692cea53f04f731ab"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by striking <quote>wife</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic
partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID614340eb5f664df0b944008843a7f8ab"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
subparagraph (B) and inserting—</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDD9D8885F59847838C0B67067292A40A" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="ID3f1e3be21f6b4189b43c7130a076ac3d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a child, including
a dependent adopted child (or a dependent child of a domestic partner not
adopted by or otherwise the child of the employee), who is—</text>
<clause id="ID1976e6137df14b67a5fd219236d094d1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>unmarried (and not
in a domestic partnership); and</text>
</clause><clause id="ID53168bfe8be440da9f6c557b51c44a66"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>under 21 years of
age;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID8fae0869c3fe4dcba76a424d415153e2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(5)(E), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb8120d6f370c4ccf8619631be213c0bb"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph
(6)(F), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf27d5bcfd8fe4666bb35664d704c3420"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1F9D4678EFED46DD9902D86EFD62B22E" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID2f30e0ae3aa04ce29847ded00e47bc62"><enum>(7)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID8729914b84d1482699d38d2ed2c2166a"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Benefits for
captives</header><text>Section 5569 is amended by inserting <quote>(or domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H4535DE2E5251464EBBA51085736D5943"><enum>705.</enum><header>Compensation
for disability or death</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5570(a)(2)(B) is amended by striking
<quote>household.</quote> and inserting <quote>household (including a domestic
partner (as defined in section 2501) of the employee).</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="idCF201C5D3F7447888002153AD11E0F61"><enum>706.</enum><header>Annuity of the
Comptroller General</header>
<subsection id="idB9A3642FD53B4DE9ACA3613293E31C79"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>Section
771 of title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id636269ADEF42438A9BDC0B3C37DD6179"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter
preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>subchapter—</quote> and inserting
<quote>subchapter:</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id4A2C139FD4264BBDADACA66B2F48E3ED"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id66FAA8D9831749048CBF745E3D1F7E58"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>The term</quote> after <quote>(1)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id38BFC631236F4DFD88C521C31771E46A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or the child of a reporting Comptroller General’s domestic partner not
adopted by or otherwise the child of the Comptroller General)</quote> after
<quote>including a stepchild</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idEC985675BE4841C5BC7A4430F4705141"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking
paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45591A25CCE34055843F1357699FE99D" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID3e2eaf93ea8248f1a17705211255bd6c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The terms
<term>domestic partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the
meanings given under section 2501 of title 5.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idA3293085F257479895D6EF25F661FB7F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The term
<term>surviving spouse</term> means a surviving spouse of an individual who was
a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General and the spouse—</text>
<subparagraph id="id3D7DCA30E0034DEC9E0B7323E11B361A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>was married to the
individual for at least 1 year immediately before the individual died;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE3ECF03FDD124372B3710111F59F3655"><enum>(B)</enum><text>has not remarried
(or entered into a domestic partnership) before age 55 and is the parent of
issue by the marriage.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idEFCCBE0644DC4105BD5BAFE421F302D6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The term
<term>surviving partner</term> means a surviving domestic partner of an
individual who was a Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General and the
domestic partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID7f26ae24f700429cb90c4b7da81a98a4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>was in a domestic
partnership for at least 1 year immediately before the individual died;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID7c662403b63f4524ac3d4cc12ba80cfc"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idCA9C9284E3D14035A96BE90352A2AC8C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>has not entered into a
subsequent domestic partnership or married before age 55; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idB1E7DD562BDC4B02A4F8ABBEA8B36A0A" indent="up1" reported-display-style="strikethrough"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>satisfies other
requirements, related to parenthood and the domestic partnership, prescribed by
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management by regulation under sections
8341(3)(b) and 8441(3)(B) of title 5, as determined and applied by the General
Counsel of the Government Accountability Office on the basis of those
regulations.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idEF048931977F4692B0A6CB0ABCC643D6"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Service as a
Comptroller General equals the number of years and complete months an
individual is Comptroller
General.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idD08D2505534849C29D77FE611DDFC11B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Election of
survivor benefits</header><text>Section 773 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id161188B16015460691A004BA1A459731"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2)(B), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner’s)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse's</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id6A6EC8E168D84A8B8BA7925141B3B38F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id82F92F933E6C4C388B6C5ABA97DEB02E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d),
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> before the period.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idE716714DCBB14B9396B7218AC7341303"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Survivor
annuities</header><text>Section 774 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id7268D2A8F064443984795E334404366E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idBBE630EACD29465E88FB24DC5227AEAB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (1) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8DA2DB412A1145C8BF14763AC2A016AE" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID79c7d920ea4e4831a972802b16364f73"><enum>(1)</enum><text>only by a spouse
(or domestic partner), the surviving spouse (or surviving domestic partner)
shall receive an annuity computed under subsection (d) of this section
beginning on the death of the Comptroller General or retired Comptroller
General or when the spouse (or domestic partner) is 50 years of age, whichever
is
later;</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2460E21AEC2F433ABF5E73CBBC5FB881"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>by a spouse and a dependent child, the surviving
spouse</quote> and inserting <quote>by a spouse (or domestic partner) and a
dependent child, the surviving spouse (or surviving domestic partner)</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID86ddb57f9b3e4b95ad312cd3caad63ed"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)(A), by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id53C9A595E7D2406A8D2A03A5966BD1EE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idE7D5F358ECB3437088C55CE0A3A818AE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id66F3A3B6201C40599C7E027EA651B2EB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or surviving domestic partner's)</quote> after <quote>A surviving
spouse's</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9F6A7D3773F5423E80B6D450D8605187"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or surviving domestic partner's)</quote> after <quote>a surviving
spouse's</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE7D83108B2EF49B39DC87DC92C94A4FF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>unless the
spouse</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idFA96281DA0484C33B6904C6462C81D54"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Refunds</header><text>Section
775 of title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idF95A1CE816384EF5A97E3946709EF0DB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)(2), by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id64DDC4C3A2064D1691F51E98E7D19D78"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>surviving spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idEEDC57FCD8FB496E9BC782DC303C7B80"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Payment of
survivor benefits</header><text>Section 776(b) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idFEF33BA269374509B00A40409802BFC0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by striking <quote>A surviving spouse's annuity ends when the spouse
remarries</quote> and inserting <quote>A surviving spouse's (or surviving
domestic partner’s) annuity ends when the spouse remarries (or enters into a
domestic partnership) (or when the surviving domestic partner enters into
another domestic partnership or marries)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID22a9181d50df417187c1dfa27e67d2a0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking <quote>marries, or dies, whichever is earliest. However, if a child
is not self-supporting because of a physical or mental disability, an annuity
ends when the child recovers, marries</quote> and inserting <quote>marries (or
enters into a domestic partnership), or dies, whichever is earliest. However,
if a child is not self-supporting because of a physical or mental disability,
an annuity ends when the child recovers, marries (or enters into a domestic
partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1A388C2A72CE48D5A980E8CDF1A87F37"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>a
surviving spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idF9F6C1111C864615BC1284CC5DFB882C"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Annuity
increases</header><text>Section 777(b) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner's)</quote> after
<quote>A surviving spouse's</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>VIII</enum><header>Ethics in
Government, conflicts of interest, employment of relatives, gifts, and employee
conduct</header>
<section commented="no" id="idF8BD650B75E64F0CAC97AEE43A7E8106"><enum>801.</enum><header>Ethics in
Government Act of 1978</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="id0B6F56DDC65F4D619541A45EDB0A2D37"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Contents of
reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 102 of the
Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="idF4432ECCD2514E2882C5FACAB983838D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id26A6060E0961453AB25961A919481A8A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(A), by inserting <quote>(or the domestic partner or a parent, child, or
sibling of the domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>relative</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idDEE3473A897F4E6CAFDC0F05F1A5F5F0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by striking <quote>spouse, or by a parent, brother, sister, or child of the
reporting individual or of the reporting individual's spouse,</quote> and
inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic partner), or by a parent, brother, sister,
or child of the reporting individual or of the reporting individual's spouse
(or of the reporting individual’s domestic partner),</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id4F74C85BAEFD4228BA6B4F1591344713"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph
(4)—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id4871FBEC99924092827FE82258139EE8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter
preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>spouse, or a parent, brother,
sister, or child of the reporting individual or of the reporting individual's
spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic partner), or a parent,
brother, sister, or child of the reporting individual or of the reporting
individual's spouse (or of the reporting individual’s domestic
partner),</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id62866273CE57461F899ADFE2D1FF998E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id0E5B94F814574B93A7E7993BCDBB84C7"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (5),
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>
each place that term appears;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id490A769F67494B94A0EF3BB810C2E88A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="idC057F52F1D274DEFB5CC83BA042AF94E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id0A93E3F0A14E41EE943360E2A168E7E1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter
preceding subparagraph (A) and subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D) by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each
place that term appears;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idD4081FF4DAC8401FA607873F1EA79A95"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(E), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner's)</quote> after
<quote>spouse's</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id0A2633081FB048798D1C0FD9B447E114"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(F)—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="id69307955A56A4C4FA859BEAFB391103B"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(and domestic partners)</quote> after <quote>spouses</quote>; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idB953328B78474731BC0022DF73F26C5C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="idD279497650AD4A70A4D732306BC1CA51"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in the matter
following subparagraph (F), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote>
after <quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id17B5645A7CFC40A697C65ABCD246C251"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by inserting <quote>(or the termination of the reporting individual's domestic
partnership)</quote> after <quote>his spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idF258B9A656A14F02837D46F988A34F0D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (f),
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>
each place that term appears.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idDCC0073B4BEE4524B55BF31F545DF0B0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions
relating to financial disclosure</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="idAE840E791F4448AABF7DE44C1FB9A5E7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 109 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5
U.S.C. App.) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="idD565ACF19F604CBD94ADDF5E10D8CC71"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="idBF843271AFAB4234BCE738632E4E0EF6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter
preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>(or who is a son or daughter of
the reporting individual’s domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>stepdaughter</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id8B5740606CDC4E1CB5178F925ACF0DA7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A), by striking <quote>unmarried</quote> and inserting <quote>not married (and
not in a domestic partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idF601026B9CB840589E8B96285AFD80AF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B), by inserting “(or, in the case of a son or daughter of the reporting
individual’s domestic partner, would be a dependent within the meaning of such
section if the requirements of subsections (c)(1)(A) and (d)(1)(A) of such
section were disregarded)” before the semicolon;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idF21A5E6A45D84687A04063479F4360DD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (4) through (19) as paragraphs (5) through (20), respectively;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id099D52703034484AB23ABC0CB6C6EFC8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (3) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB282335D6DB74C76A2CFE2504CB76349" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idB30EB733CC65450D8863FA1AB900A705"><enum>(4)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section 2501 of title 5, United States
Code.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id7B264C16BA5C435BB0D7BEE38761290E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming amendments</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id9DFAFCA3DAFA44D3BCAC7819320E53B2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Ethics in
Government Act of 1978</header><text>The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5
U.S.C. App.) is amended—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="idFC4473E5720446A0BF3672A1EF98563A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in section
101(f)—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="id64342A8802F942779EA9C105BC34558F"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in paragraph (9),
by striking <quote>section 109(12)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
109(13)</quote>;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC18BFE2FB3E64F6EBFAC4892144FEB5D"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (10), by striking
<quote>section 109(13)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
109(14)</quote>;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id13FB7C12981445A491C9B84949FF26D6"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (11), by striking
<quote>section 109(10)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 109(11)</quote>;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03378F0BAA5F4B018A91DB245E641AAC"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (12), by striking
<quote>section 109(8)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 109(9)</quote>;
and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDFE3A83F8A24CA7A50D4B136FA3404F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in section
105(b)(3)(A), by striking <quote>section 109(8) or 109(10)</quote> and
inserting <quote>section 109(9) or (11)</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD3155E01F6594EB0A2A477026DE0CFBC"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Other
provisions</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C8EF6F3488F43C69BBB81D40908A2BC"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Lobbying
Disclosure Act of 1995</header><text>Section 3(4)(D) of the Lobbying Disclosure
Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1602(4)(D)) is amended by striking <quote>section
109(13)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 109(14)</quote>.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71BE7F98B63A4D29BE2DEB5E11ABCCCE"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Public Health
Service Act</header><text>Section 499(j)(2) of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 290b(j)(2)) is amended by striking <quote>section 109(16)</quote>
and inserting <quote>section 109(17)</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id6E10B66E88AC42CF9B36A4E52DD57BFA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Outside earned
income limitation</header><text>Section 501(c) of the Ethics in Government Act
of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by striking <quote>spouse, child, or
dependent relative of such individual</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or
domestic partner), child, or dependent relative of such individual (or child,
sibling, or parent of such individual's domestic partner, which child, sibling,
or parent is a dependent of such individual)</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idDA753BBB550045BA80D55BEFB1A3AC1C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions
relating to outside earned income and employment</header><text>Section 505 of
the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id70B0BE2FF3FB4EEC9553829F863B9604"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3),
by inserting <quote>(or the individual's domestic partner, or a parent, child,
or sibling of the individual’s domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>relative</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDDAE7D9BB62E4673A43E3B7526BCC04C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4), by inserting <quote>(or
the domestic partner, or a parent, child, or sibling of the domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>relative</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id3CD2715104704503B3ED268A5E1201D9"><enum>802.</enum><header>Conflicts of
interest</header>
<subsection id="id72039CC7F2E5481C8B2CE13FBE1225AE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Compensation to
Members of Congress, officers, and others in matters affecting the
Government</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 203(d) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1)
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner, as that term is defined in section
2501 of title 5)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id07DCE7BBAC1D435493F92D0FFADAC1A3"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Activities of officers and employees in
claims against and other matters affecting the Government</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 205(e) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner, as that term is defined in section 2501 of title 5)</quote>
after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID1c259e99c1c24c8b8c34c64af113afe2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Acts affecting a
personal financial interest</header><text>Section 208(a) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner, as that term
is defined in section 2501 of title 5)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB35CBF53BF3E477E926F99760094F7AF"><enum>803.</enum><header>Employment of
relatives, restrictions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3110 is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFB4CEFE59B9D4AE9BDE7C8A363753B8B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4AD5971A9BD64E45974AA1C2826E5E25"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24047A8AB06D4EAA86C42DBA42A03405"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by striking the period
and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8169639E86BB4988B3BD918DDDF7D0E1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBCD91DB8E9BF4A009C400EADC2A80B18" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="ID64e307bd602e4da1a3bb5750bfa03e2c"><enum>(4)</enum><text><quote>domestic
partner</quote> has the meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id438B50FAA5AB42798F58864D850AE029"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b),
by inserting <quote>The restrictions in this subsection shall apply also to a
public official with respect to any individual, and to any individual with
respect to a public official, if the individual is the public official’s
domestic partner; is a parent, child, or sibling of the public official’s
domestic partner; or is the domestic partner of a child, parent, or sibling of
the public official.</quote> at the end.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6F18445B37784DCAB3E0401163CC1D97"><enum>804.</enum><header>Receipt and
disposition of foreign gifts and decorations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 7342(a)(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA2966E3F88E448A9B5002D9C0AA3B47F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)(G), by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22097199596F4C599FDE53BEE457996D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5),
by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0B17C515C5064F1096B934C0780502C9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (6),
by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0447D6509D4545288CF63413554C5AC0"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="deleted" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89ACE9026F484BFCBA64110483D844C1" reported-display-style="strikethrough" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB82FE18FAEA14BE1A7B40BCC4FD22E33"><enum>(7)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> has the same meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id53ED0CFBA5224CEAAC7EA641FE408FBB"><enum>805.</enum><header>Regulation of
conduct; gifts</header>
<subsection id="IDd7b9a541205e4a16b1cf11f0cdbfb03d"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Regulations under section 7301 of title 5, United States
Code, shall be modified by the President, and regulations under sections 7351
and 7353 of that title shall be modified by the Office of Government Ethics, so
as to provide that any benefits and obligations applicable to married employees
and their spouses shall also apply to employees in domestic partnerships and
their domestic partners.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc8e5a49b0b81402e81fdeffe7c9b8750"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In
this section, the term <term>domestic partner</term> has the meaning given
under section 2501 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="IDb6dcef7c6a7f49798ec23e6e005d9668"><enum>806.</enum><header>Acceptance of
travel assistance from non-Federal sources</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1353(a) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner (as defined under
section 2501 of title 5))</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</section>
1.Short title; references; and
table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of
2012
.
(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; and table of
contents.
Sec. 2. Purpose.
TITLE I—Establishment and
termination of domestic partnerships; other general provisions
Sec. 101. Federal employees in domestic
partnerships.
Sec. 102. Guidance and educational
materials.
Sec. 103. Review of programs under which
employment benefits and obligations are established.
Sec. 104. Effective date.
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
Subtitle A—General provisions
Sec. 301. Definitions.
Subtitle B—Creditable service
Sec. 311. Creditable service.
Sec. 312. Survivor reduction for a current
spouse or a current domestic partner.
Sec. 313. Survivor reduction for a former
spouse or former domestic partner.
Sec. 314. Survivor elections; deposit;
offsets.
Sec. 315. Survivor reductions;
computation.
Sec. 316. Insurable interest
reductions.
Sec. 317. Alternative forms of
annuities.
Sec. 318. Lump-sum benefits; designation of
beneficiary; order of precedence.
Subtitle C—Thrift Savings Plan
Sec. 321. Benefits and election of
benefits.
Sec. 322. Annuities: methods of payment;
election; purchase.
Sec. 323. Protections for spouses, domestic
partners, former spouses, and former domestic partners.
Sec. 324. Justices and judges.
Subtitle D—Survivor annuities
Sec. 331. Definitions.
Sec. 332. Rights of a widow, widower, or
surviving partner.
Sec. 333. Rights of a child.
Sec. 334. Rights of a former spouse or former
domestic partner.
Subtitle E—General administrative
provisions
Sec. 341. Authority of the Office of Personnel
Management.
Sec. 342. Cost-of-living
adjustments.
Subtitle F—Federal Retirement Thrift Investment
Management System
Sec. 351. 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. Definition.
Sec. 503. Relocation expenses of employees
transferred or reemployed.
Sec. 504. Taxes on reimbursements for travel,
transportation, and relocation expenses of employees transferred.
Sec. 505. Relocation expenses of an employee
who is performing an extended assignment.
Sec. 506. Transportation of family members
incident to repatriation of employees held captive.
Sec. 507. Regulations to include domestic
partners.
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. Employees of nonappropriated fund
instrumentalities.
Sec. 609. Effective date.
TITLE VII—Employee leave; death or captivity
compensation; other employee benefits
Sec. 701. Voluntary transfers of leave;
Voluntary Leave Bank Program.
Sec. 702. Family and medical leave.
Sec. 703. Settlement of accounts.
Sec. 704. Payments to missing
employees.
Sec. 705. Annuity of the Comptroller
General.
TITLE VIII—Ethics in Government,
conflicts of interest, employment of relatives, gifts, and employee
conduct
Sec. 801. Ethics in Government Act of
1978.
Sec. 802. Conflicts of interest.
Sec. 803. Employment of relatives,
restrictions.
Sec. 804. Receipt and disposition of foreign
gifts and decorations.
Sec. 805. Regulation of conduct;
gifts.
Sec. 806. Acceptance of travel assistance from
non-Federal sources.
2.The purpose of this Act is to apply
employment benefits and obligations to Federal employees in same-sex domestic
partnerships and to their domestic partners that are the same as the employment
benefits and obligations that apply under existing statutes to married Federal
employees and to their spouses.
<enum>I</enum><header>Establishment and
termination of domestic partnerships; other general provisions</header>
<section id="id1660b3ba-2e33-4a06-b931-0b2e851ad70f"><enum>101.</enum><header>Federal employees in
domestic partnerships</header>
<subsection id="id00253b31-2d31-4a83-8f7b-f8246422c102"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subpart A of part III
is amended by inserting after section 2305 the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb5432f5e-a03b-475c-8794-0e3c21d8afcb" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<chapter id="id352cedab-0136-4c25-b465-3521f203af2b"><enum>25</enum><header>Federal Employees in
Domestic Partnerships</header>
<toc>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2501. Definitions.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">2502. Establishment and
termination of domestic partnerships.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<section id="id8502771d-3988-475a-8a0d-3665bf831d63"><enum>2501.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this chapter—</text>
<paragraph id="ida1aa2248-e4aa-4360-a57c-54eb5d535a9a"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>annuitant</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="id03294fba-ba11-4a31-a14d-75fc124b5ff1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an annuitant as defined
under section 8331, 8401, or 8901(3)(A); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1f9cbe28-27d8-44e1-957c-5fe3a927b2d6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>as determined under
regulations prescribed by the President or a designee of the President, 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>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idc2e1a981-6b38-4a08-a34a-01443b8b1262"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term
<term>Director</term> means the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idf7d10257-aa97-4e01-a150-5c6441be8f9d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term <term>domestic
partner</term> means either of the individuals in a domestic
partnership;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idbbe3cc8f-4edf-4d24-8dda-8953b4a134bc"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term <term>domestic
partnership</term> means a relationship between 2 individuals of the same sex,
at least 1 of whom is an employee, former employee, or annuitant, that has been
established under section 2502(a) and not terminated under section 2502(b);
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id21a99670-019f-4b4f-804c-5f959a94125b"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the term
<term>employee</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8297485c-f186-4b46-9a80-72e636062c6a"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an employee as defined
under section 2105, including an employee referred to in subsection (c) or (e)
of that section;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb7d970dc-690c-4b90-9fcc-21c5929f7d10"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a Member of
Congress;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id96527bf1-6d67-4df8-9d32-98d212558918"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the President;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id45485b6c-28a0-4f2b-8323-688709335ec6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>an individual who is an
employee, as defined under section 8331, 8401, 8701, 8901, or 9001; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8e697d6a-d31d-4d4b-8509-020a1f062c7d"><enum>(E)</enum><text>any other individual who
is employed by the Government and is included within this definition under
regulations prescribed by the President or a designee of the President.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="idc9e3092d-3553-4bb2-a90d-37fd0d93bed5"><enum>2502.</enum><header>Establishment and
termination of domestic partnerships</header>
<subsection id="idafc8a425-a6cd-4d00-a239-3480c068a752"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment of
domestic partnership</header>
<paragraph id="idccf59b89-475a-4eb6-a8d2-e2c97cf78b34"><enum>(1)</enum><text>An employee, former
employee, or annuitant and another individual (who may also be an employee,
former employee, or annuitant) may establish a domestic partnership as provided
in this section for the purposes of the provisions of law to which this chapter
applies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc0bb807d-804a-4406-92b9-ade9aaf1e158"><enum>(2)</enum><text>To establish a domestic
partnership, the 2 individuals referred to in paragraph (1) shall jointly
execute, and the employee, former employee, or annuitant shall file, an
affidavit in such form and filed in such manner as the Director shall by
regulation prescribe.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ide92ab5e4-aa15-4dd7-acdb-01c2ac2cd784"><enum>(3)</enum><text>By the affidavit referred
to in paragraph (2), each of the individuals shall attest to the
following:</text>
<subparagraph id="id7ad11b99-e841-45e1-bdc2-1958d4eb4d32"><enum>(A)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id7578c605-3d30-42cc-9333-9423366c99cb"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The individuals are
of the same sex; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ide74fbf3e-d743-4cd2-9680-1aec8a0fd7c6" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the individual who files
the affidavit is an employee, former employee, or annuitant.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id63aa0a6a-cca3-4984-aaee-59c6cc08c1db"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id02a04482-d176-4563-a923-7ebc632dfa91"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The individuals are
in a committed domestic-partnership relationship with each other satisfying the
conditions in clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) and intend to remain so
indefinitely.</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id4b23c97b-5d9b-4388-a8ca-c1347fd1cf83" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The individuals have a
common residence and intend to continue to do so (or would have a common
residence, but are prevented from doing so because of an assignment abroad or
other employment-related factors, financial considerations, family
responsibilities, or other similar reason (which shall be specifically
identified in the affidavit)).</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id144a0a6d-e458-4383-87d3-f67892a661c4" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>The individuals share
responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s welfare and financial
obligations.</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id0486d616-5429-4c82-ae26-3d4ebdff7876" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>Neither individual is
married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone except each other.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7ee4e18c-fb13-4cd2-9613-f9aee8e94de8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Each individual is at
least 18 years of age and mentally competent to consent to a contract.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0eb06f84-1b28-4065-8541-67ef06b5db6c"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The individuals are not
related to each other by blood in a way that would prohibit legal marriage
between individuals otherwise eligible to marry in the jurisdiction (or, if
applicable, in any jurisdiction) in which the individuals have a common
residence.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf0f403ae-3ee2-49be-9d84-e4a8c6acbfca"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Each of the individuals
understands that—</text>
<clause id="idcc918c94-0146-4bc0-b1aa-ce4bbb086fd4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>as a domestic partner,
each individual not only gains certain benefits, but also assumes certain
obligations, as set forth in the provision of law to which this chapter
applies, the violation of which may lead to disciplinary action against an
employee and to criminal and other penalties;</text>
</clause><clause id="id1b0f18a7-91f0-4119-a469-9612e52390f9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>either or both of the
domestic partners are required to file notification under subsection (b)(2)
terminating the domestic partnership within 30 days after any condition under
clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subparagraph (B) ceases to be satisfied, and, if
1 domestic partner dies, the other is required to file a notification under
subsection (b)(3) within 30 days after the death; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id73a0576e-ee52-4f85-96aa-dbdf098c525f"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>willful falsification
of information in the affidavit, or willful failure to file notification as
required under subsection (b)(2) or (3), may lead to recovery of amounts
obtained as a result of such falsification or failure, disciplinary action
against an employee, and criminal or other penalties.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idf556af8b-2d53-43bd-9531-c88699b4b307"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Termination of domestic
partnership</header>
<paragraph id="id666aad95-3f0e-4827-8254-0d33dd795dfe"><enum>(1)</enum><text>A domestic partnership is
terminated upon—</text>
<subparagraph id="id3b206c00-e097-4678-99aa-5dd276a71d8a"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the death of either
domestic partner;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idfc3d8b10-a418-4546-b140-352cc2b4f057"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the filing of a
notification under paragraph (2) by either or both domestic partners; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id65932b1c-ba11-4ae7-83f0-56ff36d3eb58"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the satisfaction of such
other conditions as the Director may by regulation prescribe.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idf9f4051f-8a3f-4eb0-a8cd-4efc6ce95ca2"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id40156df3-6b7f-4328-ac57-01f2a360dd84"><enum>(A)</enum><text>If any condition
referred to under clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subsection (a)(3)(B) ceases to
be satisfied, either or both of the domestic partners shall, within 30 days
after the condition ceases to be satisfied, execute and file a notification, in
such form and in such manner as prescribed by the Director in regulation,
stating that the condition is no longer satisfied and that the domestic
partnership is terminated.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id2b9b77af-f99b-4acd-a72d-3381e82e2edb" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Each domestic partner has
a duty that the notification under subparagraph (A) be timely filed, but the
duty of 1 domestic partner shall be satisfied if the other domestic partner
timely executes and files the required notification.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id93364fc6-2a65-4710-a2fc-5cc32dbfebcb" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The Director shall
promulgate regulations establishing the criteria for determining when any
condition referred to under clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subsection (a)(2)(B)
ceases to be satisfied.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id092620dc-a5ca-41ae-982b-3c444fbd5935"><enum>(3)</enum><text>When one domestic partner
dies, the other domestic partner shall, within 30 days after the death, execute
and file a notification of the death, in such form and in such manner as
prescribed by the Director in regulation.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id68f0771c-f023-451e-87a9-d2f18f5b5c17"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effectiveness of the
filing of an affidavit</header>
<paragraph id="idc74a15ac-b74d-4833-bd0e-445acf4b2284"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The filing of an
affidavit under subsection (a)(2) 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 the filing.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idbcf9f4e7-fe46-416b-ba9a-19f867cd9437"><enum>(2)</enum><text>No individual shall, for
purposes of the provisions of law to which this chapter applies, be treated as
being in a domestic partnership—</text>
<subparagraph id="id93b8f241-b485-4ed4-97a4-c34bd7b4c264"><enum>(A)</enum><text>unless an affidavit has
been filed in accordance with this section and with regulations prescribed by
the Director; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id06e22225-d90f-4381-a6a4-f76f090065bb"><enum>(B)</enum><text>after the earlier
of—</text>
<clause id="id9d15165a-719d-4256-8c0d-77430191bee5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date of the death of
either individual; or</text>
</clause><clause id="id083c7d01-22b9-4557-965a-2de6bae5c4df"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the date as of which the
domestic partnership is otherwise terminated, as determined under regulations
prescribed by the Director.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idb2569a98-30fb-461a-a71b-fe4fd1348098"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Additional
notifications to government employer</header><text>A domestic partner employed
by an entity of the United States shall provide such notifications to the
employing entity of the formation, existence, or termination of the domestic
partnership, in addition to the filings required under subsections (a) and (b),
as may be required, and in such form and in such manner as prescribed, by the
Director in regulation.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida4ee2c54-6598-4e01-99e2-5e562ab827b5"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id72F580EFA73F4255A98AA216CF9E2FA1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>This section applies for
purposes of the provisions of this title (excluding chapter 81).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id97b1aeef3876404f92316804551ca316"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Two individuals
determined under section 8101(21) or 8171(e)(1)(A) to be domestic partners for
purposes of chapter 81 shall be deemed to be domestic partners in a domestic
partnership, as defined under section 2501, for purposes of any provision of
law to which that definition applies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id9b9d487735c3448e83c3a526ba447fa5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Under regulations
prescribed by the President, the Secretary of Labor shall inform the Director
of any individuals determined under section 8101(21) or 8171(e)(1)(A) to be
domestic partners.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idc968edbf-178f-4715-8116-acf8e2ee648d"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The
Director shall issue regulations to carry out subsection (a) through
(d).</text>
</subsection></section></chapter><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="id5f10c91c-fdd0-4aea-83e8-01ccb2fa3648"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
table of chapters for part III of title 5, United States Code, is amended by
inserting after the item relating to chapter 23 the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc76418c2-426c-4050-8dac-a8d4080f8b4d" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<toc changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" reported-display-style="italic">
<multi-column-toc-entry bold="off" level="section"><toc-enum>25.</toc-enum><level-header level="section"> Federal Employees in Domestic
Partnerships</level-header><target>2501</target></multi-column-toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="idb102bf29-85f5-4671-ae2e-679e43370fb9"><enum>102.</enum><header>Guidance and
educational materials</header>
<subsection id="ida0263e26-6e87-444a-87a5-015f031534fc"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The officers and agencies that have authority to develop
and issue guidance and educational materials with respect to benefits and
obligations established under the amendments made by this Act and the measures
taken under section 103 shall issue the materials—</text>
<paragraph id="id6601908c-2559-454d-9a7c-3235758dfb6f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in accordance with
subsection (c); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idcadbf5f7-a78f-4549-89bc-a456a0989511"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if in the executive
branch, under the coordination of the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id8d191ce8-d6b8-468a-8019-08b57ab21d5e"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Office of Personnel
Management</header><text>The Director of the Office of Personnel Management
shall, to the greatest extent practicable—</text>
<paragraph id="idac8b110e-0b2d-410c-b907-c9e1326d307b"><enum>(1)</enum><text>compile the materials
referred to under subsection (a);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id41319bf1-9b7a-4c69-964c-ae9d3ce762d3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>prepare and issue
guidance and educational materials with respect to benefits and obligations
available to domestic partners of certain Secret Service and Park Police
Officers who are covered under the DC Police Officers’ and Firefighters’
Retirement Plan, and include that guidance documentation in the compilation
under paragraph (1); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idaf103722-b204-4f23-9f8e-c37401f5c054"><enum>(3)</enum><text>ensure that such
materials are readily available to employees and their domestic partners, both
in print form and by publicly accessible website.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id7821ae61-f7b8-4617-999d-523b04078f24"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Timeliness</header><text>To
the maximum extent practicable, the materials shall be—</text>
<paragraph id="id802590e8-7bf0-4050-8332-5ccfb816572f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>prepared and made readily
available not later than 30 days before the effective date of this Act;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ide4bf9d2a-8a05-4108-8bea-662a2e02eb8d"><enum>(2)</enum><text>updated as
necessary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idd8e7b442-ab7a-481d-b432-351231bb355a"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>This section shall take effect on the date of enactment of
this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="idc6df46f7-3c14-4d3f-bec7-2bab9b4cf5e1"><enum>103.</enum><header>Review of programs
under which employment benefits and obligations are established</header>
<subsection id="id91c67edb-a7d6-475c-957a-f0a628dfa672"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section—</text>
<paragraph id="id207a76ef-d582-41b3-bc16-bdbf0fcbb1a9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>benefit</term> includes any right, power, privilege, immunity, or
protection, whether substantive, procedural, remedial, or otherwise;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc6720fad-af9c-4bdd-87a2-715477d840e2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the term <term>domestic
partner</term> means either of the individuals in a domestic
partnership;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="iddb16878d-6c51-43c9-90ea-e2dc07a78ad9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term <term>domestic
partnership</term> means a relationship between 2 individuals—</text>
<subparagraph id="idb09bbd44-f71e-44f5-8bd8-0a251dc9c938"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who are of the same
sex;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide7092f69-a29a-43d8-897b-1ac2a21c360f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>at least 1 of whom is an
employee;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb74ac1c9-749f-4f2d-9385-e5f4f9a89df6"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idf9151a8e-2fc9-433c-91c7-80b2d380a87f"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who are in a
committed domestic-partnership relationship with each other satisfying the
conditions in clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) and intend to remain so
indefinitely;</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id5c81abdb-015d-4db5-a17c-aa79b8d34969" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>who have a common
residence and intend to continue to do so (or would have a common residence,
but are prevented from doing so because of such reasons as an assignment abroad
or other employment-related factors, financial considerations, family
responsibilities, or other such reasons);</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id164ec6e7-24ff-486e-9d27-3ae617cf7dca" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>who share
responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s welfare and financial
obligations; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id7f9a7209-b051-4626-a6d1-ca5d70aaa104" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>neither of whom is
married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone except each other;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id045cb84e-b0c3-44b2-909f-cd8dea7cdf45"><enum>(D)</enum><text>each of whom are at least
18 years of age and mentally competent to consent to a contract; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1c60260a-260f-4693-bdf4-53e60bff81b3"><enum>(E)</enum><text>who are not related to
each other by blood in a way that would prohibit legal marriage between
individuals otherwise eligible to marry in the jurisdiction (or, if applicable,
in any jurisdiction) in which the individuals have a common residence;
and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ida033fdce-ed84-4904-8272-0f81b5a165d9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term
<term>employee</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6151904c-e7da-4eb3-a7a4-9d846c47f4d8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an employee as defined
under section 2501 of title 5, United States Code, as added by section 101 of
this Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id62160c37-ce66-4e2f-8459-db4dc6008f76"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a member of the
commissioned corps of the Public Health Service or of the commissioned corps of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0c1aff5a-c7cb-4cf8-ab5a-2d3957d51c97"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any other individual
performing personal service to the Government (including an instrumentality
wholly owned by the United States), whether for pay, for nominal pay, or as a
volunteer, who is not performing such service as an employee of any employer
other than the Government or as a member of the Armed Forces; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id7cf42059-3916-4302-a156-4ac17f9bbf5c"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the term
<term>obligation</term> includes any duty, disability, or liability, whether
substantive, procedural, remedial, or otherwise.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id5275df65-37ea-4bca-916e-5e62a8880aa8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reviews, additional
measures, recommendations, and reports to congress</header><text>Not later than
180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than
once every 2 years thereafter, the President and designees of the President
shall—</text>
<paragraph id="id628d4875-2ddf-40af-aab1-e469035bb764"><enum>(1)</enum><text>conduct a review of the
employment benefits and of the employment obligations applied to married
employees and their spouses to determine what authority exists for the
President and designees of the President to apply such benefits and obligations
to employees who have domestic partners and the domestic partners of those
employees;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id91eabfbb-fc74-4c64-8cde-7531b3dec336"><enum>(2)</enum><text>include within the review
under paragraph (1) all employment benefits and obligations under regulations
prescribed by the President or a designee of the President, or promulgated by
the head of any agency or department of the executive branch;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc7a2a2cf-073d-42d7-ba6c-3572cef288d4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>take any additional
measures that can be taken, to the greatest extent practicable and consistent
with law, to apply such benefits and obligations to employees with domestic
partners and the domestic partners of those employees;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ida72c2be5-0f33-442d-b632-45f6fad58d99"><enum>(4)</enum><text>develop recommendations
for any legislation to further apply such benefits and obligations to employees
with domestic partners and the domestic partners of those employees; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id3738ae73-6ac3-49fd-8689-a0b255c02909"><enum>(5)</enum><text>submit a report to
Congress summarizing the review, determinations, and recommendations under
paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id7d18abd7-7e05-46f1-a251-f4802fbe1214"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>This section shall take effect on the date of enactment of
this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ida0851aef-c409-4c0b-a17b-94488a7a42dc"><enum>104.</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<subsection id="id899ae0f1-5e75-4c01-af25-253580865826"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise
specifically provided, this Act and amendments made by this Act shall take
effect 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idebbd5944-6d4b-4e8a-b3fa-58682b27af04"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application to current
and future employees</header><text>An employee, former employee, or annuitant
shall be eligible to establish a domestic partnership by filing an affidavit
under section 2502(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, as added by section
101 of this Act, only if the employee, former employee, or annuitant is or has
been employed as an employee on or after the effective date of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Civil Service Retirement
System</header>
<section id="id57564f11-f305-4d49-b54d-30e0c251feda"><enum>201.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8331 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idcda2d859-6d90-41f9-a4f4-24d22d547a6e"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (30), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id3e623fa0-9457-41d1-a950-6b564f42f83e"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (31), by
striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id3a762b13-af04-44a3-9788-513157fcf443"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfcd014b8-40ec-4f25-8c39-4b0fcbe7e68b" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph id="ide86b019b-3e93-46ab-94a9-1533e27a4703"><enum>(32)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section 2501; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id89838a90-9d5f-4e6d-8453-6106642c42cd"><enum>(33)</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="idde726403-76ba-465d-a288-6e7ad6b2fc46"><enum>(A)</enum><text>if such individual
performed at least 18 months of civilian service covered under this subchapter
as an employee or Member; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id916102c5-4a7b-478a-96b3-87888e50b293"><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="idee335693-3897-471e-a234-08695485aae4"><enum>202.</enum><header>Creditable
service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8332 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id674bf5dd-7c9e-4cc7-8c6a-ed47275e633e"><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="idddde2afa-d2fa-435f-9700-42a11c5181c0"><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 (or domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="idaa7672ed-8e78-468f-b984-e9de83662157"><enum>203.</enum><header>Computation of
annuity</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8339 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id0ec0d2b3-d0d9-4416-984b-1d6deccd8762"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (j)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id2f6a9467-ff52-4430-bd06-e9fef67cd203"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="idf586a2e1-a827-4b91-a008-fbef7e893899"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>the spouse</quote> each place it
appears;</text>
</clause><clause id="id4aa5d7a2-16b7-488e-a281-7016ff6e5928"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
has a domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>is married</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id34e8be6c-7e6c-470a-a526-1f1dd859e65e"><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="idb2988cf9-c197-4d8a-929b-9ef77d1f9939"><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="id48a50c93-3f93-407c-9c08-0372127b5e51"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="id76cb8cfe-308f-4ba7-ae2b-5c8f19bec871"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the first
sentence—</text>
<subclause id="id64a64250-56a2-457a-83e0-99c55239767a"><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="ida5370cc8-73f6-4a2e-9619-a4631fe0f67a"><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="idc5fd4740-b9d3-4961-b855-3b7f7e35cf34"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the second
sentence—</text>
<subclause id="id1bcad1fa-0ccd-4860-9a11-d0efe108edec"><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="idd997cc42-2c37-45af-8471-808db2f560db"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking <quote>is
dissolved,</quote> and inserting <quote>is dissolved (or
terminated),</quote>;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id8ba5ba01-c832-4838-8f0d-e004edace02b"><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="id92bf92b9-cd39-4c46-939d-59f204bd6622"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(B)—</text>
<subclause id="id05047b89-4b34-4b2b-bcca-f6e9eba7b216"><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="ida4a08655-dd68-4980-bea9-9b2a2166b463"><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="idde2c3d5b-ad7c-4efb-a47a-4589f54ac539"><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="idc4bf1c4f-9f11-4361-92fb-0b191df69f1b"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (5)
to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id925cc1cd-ee84-4fd9-b579-f4558c2392f4" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph id="id7c50e286-bb02-4cc7-b5d0-f80297b2112c" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id955e7e16-e390-417c-a9ac-f545bf7f823e"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idacddf025-91c3-4a8f-93c3-fc956e8ca6f6" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after the death of the spouse (or domestic
partner); or</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idebc948b9-e8e8-4847-b579-e36fab4d55e4" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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><continuation-text changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" continuation-text-level="subparagraph" indent="subsection" reported-display-style="italic">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><subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id358c6b8c-13e6-4e8a-a497-1e64e8cbc06a" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 enters into a domestic partnership)
(or the former domestic partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership
or marries) 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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idb6c79337-2a1d-4c13-9a66-65290f6d8d4e" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idebab71a9-7a38-4425-94e1-7449eb9b85f9"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon entry into a subsequent marriage (or
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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id7580e8ea-c302-4589-9285-27dc848d8074" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(I)</enum><text>within 2 years after such
entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership); or</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idc332cae8-7dee-46f8-9574-e981fe95a75d" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if later, within 2 years
after—</text>
<item id="id904f6352-1397-4c8d-807b-7e738a72a814"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the death of or entry into a subsequent
marriage (or domestic partnership) by any former spouse (or former domestic
partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a survivor annuity
under section 8341(h); or</text>
</item><item id="idaa389396-5bb4-4c7f-97e7-70312f14bd78"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>if there was more than 1
surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner), the death of or
entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by the last such
surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner),</text>
</item><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subclause" indent="paragraph">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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id7cf3f4ee-b58e-471f-9857-649427126f29" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 subsequent
marriage (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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id12cd8f0c-8191-4860-ac40-cf47944dedb1" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id0d04b21f-5615-4f8e-bb9b-26199c260054" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id7d5dec61-d429-448b-8f81-b7f2f078926f" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="idaf6f3c6d-3124-4378-bdee-d857cee865be"><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="id8a70e222-5ffd-4496-b748-039cb890a766"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idf42e3ae4-60dc-480b-8df3-d3680c275851" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The deposit provisions of clauses (ii) and
(iii) shall not apply if—</text>
<subclause id="idd7570e94-69ee-46b6-b8eb-b0f3dbcd31fb"><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="id158bd5db-1d20-4f3d-85f2-40c1a4781254"><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="idc2741e0c-f58d-4019-952f-b6bb7b1a52e8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (k)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idbc0385c8-a7eb-4cca-9753-0bb3acfb3d48"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="id4ca1ffa4-2a0d-455a-889a-e57197e425a9"><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="id5dcf8240-0baa-4f6d-9144-5466a5f324e6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide7f31ef2-5043-4f78-9e9f-9f78a1bbccc1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text>
<clause id="id6a004b34-9ad4-4cfc-8e5c-5a4ce5ca4b65"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking the matter
before subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd2f23adf-873c-4dfc-a8e8-3f829db70281" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph id="idbc7aacd0-8764-4638-9259-c6a5477b69ce" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id4ff8cb86-75d0-4b45-b598-86cb59249b7f"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id0e4711bb-8080-4233-a058-44c5d9c29261" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(i)</enum><text>within 2 years after such
employee or Member marries (or enters into a domestic partnership); or</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id96439eb5-06c1-48e5-9664-102621f49409" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if later, within 2 years
after—</text>
<subclause id="idc04ab776-b67e-4242-9977-f07f057d4997"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the death of, or entry
into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by, any former spouse (or
former domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a
survivor annuity under section 8341(h); or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id3a0b0974-bfe2-4232-86c1-dbb4621bbe77"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if there was more than 1
surviving former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner), the death of or
entry into a subsequent marriage (or 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="idb347f0b9-6c84-4988-a307-580f8facb0f8"><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="id83ff5053-a4c9-49e2-a1cb-bb5c14a5ddb6"><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="id0be1dc28-9fa3-4085-aa3a-788bc2064a86"><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="id77521859-7ffd-4a99-a2ac-b60989ed7d67"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(o)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id442fe7f4-397f-4b88-95af-60f258d55b35"><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="idef9436c2-a2ba-447f-a899-bdf1c929cb54"><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="id97297dd4-ef50-4d56-a252-f02f6a5d44b7"><enum>204.</enum><header>Cost-of-living
adjustment of annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8340 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id979e2646-d996-41f5-97bd-9021e63fe056"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id82f55932-f411-423c-ba6a-34b6c59bbf41"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (1);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3b68f3c0-a127-4a26-9b9f-b2d9c78c9197"><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="id9c6a2d71-601f-40c2-8963-9b5e582a2829"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide10d7256-c9bc-4e76-bf29-10867a34d56e" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="idcf085e71-2858-41c1-afee-9a5900e4cd94"><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="id10df3cfb-bf18-454f-9510-18df45f91635"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idaffffb92-eed3-4c8a-96fc-b716b1bfef46"><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="ida5341546-e04f-4e85-8dc1-c6ea56b6ff66"><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="id002aecef-9d9b-44e3-9dcf-f2f1d689b3f3"><enum>205.</enum><header>Survivor
annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8341 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id871eadb7-4418-42aa-84c8-88b8474dcbed"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id1a0751ae-3466-403c-9c36-24c6f2124fda"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5c2901a6-5fd6-4271-8e6d-9500ed3f7336"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (2) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd92ef457-1bbc-402d-8b20-4264bf686881" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id51f4df4b-06d6-4b1f-bf87-64dad96aeef9"><enum>(3)</enum><text><term>surviving
partner</term> means the surviving domestic partner of an employee or Member
who—</text>
<subparagraph id="idba2ac899-f5df-46b7-992b-3cf50ec7cc66"><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 id="iddf61e6a9-a750-40d9-be61-af46f01356fe"><enum>(B)</enum><text>satisfies such other
requirements, related to parenthood and the domestic partnership, as the
Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall by regulation prescribe
based on the definition of a widow or widower under paragraphs (1)(B) and
(2)(B) of this section;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id575877f2-d691-4f44-b232-cc0d4466fbc0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (5) (as so
redesignated by subparagraph (A))—</text>
<clause id="ida0a4e354-5e4b-47fe-9b28-5ae232d2daee"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A)—</text>
<subclause id="id05138d00-0f03-4e1b-a54a-11a9ceb746dc"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by striking <quote>an
unmarried dependent child</quote> and inserting <quote>a dependent child who is
unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership) and</quote>;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idf2067d89-d4be-45c2-8665-81e6c2b34839"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by
striking <quote>stepchild but only if the stepchild </quote> and inserting
<quote>stepchild (or child of the domestic partner not adopted by or otherwise
the child of the employee or Member) but only if the stepchild (or the child of
the domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idfa7e4b72-7015-49cd-80b0-9fe9cf69155b"><enum>(III)</enum><text>in clause (iv), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>the
surviving spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="id23a7cc4a-4056-46a2-bd78-72b53356ac12"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraphs (B) and
(C), by striking <quote>unmarried dependent child</quote> and inserting
<quote>dependent child who is unmarried (and not in a domestic
partnership)</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id2ec4cc1d-2eaa-4d96-b45a-36c55912335d"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8af3adf0-332c-452a-9442-695b22b0bd8d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="idff9407b2-290c-40c4-b974-c28e976b860a"><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="idcb139601-8677-45eb-905d-1b1378e09fe7"><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="idc8bb0033-d952-42a7-bd92-3856ee425ea2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text>
<clause id="id90015b20-f428-4f0e-ad77-07948d5f48d2"><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="id8a9d189c-8ada-47c2-932e-6ddd5e225cd3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
in a domestic partnership with)</quote> after <quote>married to</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5d1f8256-75ac-4be5-b48e-d186ca0a3168"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="id7254829f-de5e-4f99-9106-478ad6b38d11"><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="ide8f66579-c200-4dbf-a78a-0c3c053b45c9"><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="id48d5e7b3-31c6-4715-981e-6c83c3e24b95"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by
inserting <quote>(or, in the case of a widow or widower, enters into a domestic
partnership) (or, in the case of a surviving partner, enters into a subsequent
domestic partnership or marries)</quote> after <quote>remarries</quote>;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9aa36339-4e7c-433d-8689-fb9376d68dd9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (4)—</text>
<clause id="idcaa88093-222f-425a-92e1-6b2f797c11c0"><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="id6a2469bb-1c6f-46e5-b3a8-3940a908f189"><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="id69f77ac8-7c7f-4290-95c8-f821fb35405e"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6f302d5e-4311-4544-9d18-eb57541a396d"><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="ide9c03381-11f1-40e8-8567-6f08c30bb482"><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="idf4a61a2f-c2b5-4a25-9048-02a091d92420"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by
inserting <quote>(or, in the case of a widow or widower, enters into a domestic
partnership) (or, in the case of a surviving partner, enters into a subsequent
domestic partnership or marries)</quote> after <quote>remarries</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id4655d379-559b-4562-b1ac-2f14d4d64a0d"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9bd119b3-640d-4d5c-9585-7ad7619a1dd3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the matter
before paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc4d90e8a-666b-49bb-a257-5473b4a5f68a" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection id="idabc58226-dd72-4002-a943-e90c0d3b1454"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idcbe0b87b-fcac-4a10-b16b-c720e587f2ba"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the purposes of
this subsection—</text>
<subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idcf51f976-c67a-4f5a-b270-d980c9b14ca2" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id8594130c-6d72-4f43-80c3-17c0b3386dc9" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="id0746e0f3-be62-4d85-8b2e-deb5b1626869"><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="id5820d0bf-fbd9-4fa3-be1c-f3bf06b60e62"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="id2f158fb8-4051-4f57-a46a-6a196497ef4c"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E), by
striking <quote>dies or marries;</quote> and inserting <quote>dies or marries
(or enters into a domestic partnership);</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id30140c2a-9afc-42c5-b389-2c07a4592ebf"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the matter following
subparagraph (E)—</text>
<subclause id="id1f9f7ab2-8c03-4703-adc0-e5c2cc6482a6"><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="id66c481db-ac8a-4dae-a8bd-ba3d1298d460"><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="idd870ce94-4878-41f7-be76-07a19f39b6eb"><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="id68c2a073-829f-43f0-a0f1-956119b95d43"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking subsection
(f) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idecd896ba-a6e5-41ea-89ec-1aba706927a6" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection id="id2755ca43-891e-4496-a4e4-5bf9ec1944cc"><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="idcc6e326d-6f0a-4d1f-a0d3-2c9b217bdbeb"><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 enters into a domestic partnership) (or the
surviving domestic partner dies or enters into a subsequent domestic
partnership or marries); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id462dffa2-9f72-40e8-a04a-bdc94720d069"><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="id31a232b8-3128-4b58-b480-ab9b15e8b017"><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="id49a8c3ce-f69e-40f6-a6d1-f2a7fca48bae"><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="id4e5d3f2f-a9d2-4b2f-89a8-972e2df00263"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by striking subsection
(g) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22940994-b2c4-40b7-aa0c-ddfb627cb136" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection id="id9af38f45-2c72-42db-9b74-6a0ad8fa1361"><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 a subsequent entry into a marriage (or 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="id7de13a86-1dbe-4602-ab0d-e878bf3decd2"><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 subsequent entry into a marriage (or
domestic partnership); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ida5d9de6b-6c0c-4b08-964e-123dbd0da311"><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="id9b6b3001-300c-4f3a-af9a-b639afec056a"><enum>(7)</enum><text>by striking subsection
(h) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idec95070d-ac11-4851-816e-a8a97e1a89d4" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection id="idfe69b1c9-c7e3-45ab-b825-e4ea2311b1a4"><enum>(h)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id899c70e5-1746-4489-a302-47d6a9c322b6"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ida48d36fa-af08-4194-b09d-f9d44cf1b52d" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idb4191ee3-c7ee-4e55-8f8b-ef1526866755"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id7dfc2a41-fdaa-4bd7-add6-9a6135e11a7f" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id7a305194-4fe0-46f0-9e85-2b8818f545a7" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="iddf947969-a79d-4c54-b5e4-1ef5f1c2f51e" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="idd7c7bd80-cd8e-4179-a7c9-ff7bd7bf4d08"><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="id3206c646-d0bc-4645-91d6-0fe994262844"><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="id1d0f8fbd-a7bc-48cb-90e4-38aa01c09dce"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idb3c786bb-ef47-4496-8e62-96adae0439cb" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="idf49f8cb2-28c6-4214-abb8-bd96c31c78c1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall not commence before—</text>
<clause id="id20ffdc7f-169c-43d4-8b22-195937e5f903"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the day after the
employee, Member, or annuitant dies; or</text>
</clause><clause id="idd18fa45b-3a98-4112-8564-162ed6ffa533"><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="id57036ea1-5efb-421d-98a0-8580faca9b4f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall terminate—</text>
<clause id="id563868ef-8f6c-4880-b574-b5b1e51006b7"><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 enters into a domestic partnership) (or former
domestic partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership or marries)
before becoming 55 years of age or dies; or</text>
</clause><clause id="idf21efd20-c007-40b2-8fea-350c0d9ac5ab"><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 enters into a domestic
partnership) or dies (or the former domestic partner enters into a subsequent
domestic partnership or marries or dies).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idbbdd3fa0-b04b-4668-998e-8c314736a109" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="id4e0c0222-1994-4b15-9557-860aa1dfa99a"><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="id9fe78cec-74cf-46b6-9ea9-c88d3c3af1d4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to the extent that such
modification involves an annuity under this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id9468bd3c-7bf8-4171-b9a2-fe7ec5512355" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id50062711-0d1b-427f-a69e-da0db3703bf1" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Any payment under this
subsection to a person bars recovery by any other person.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idd86ac359-0363-4001-b361-bc9022a09037" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="id3e845ebc-6561-4e19-ba86-116470cb004c"><enum>(8)</enum><text>by striking subsection
(i) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id7544f4d9-b5ce-4a75-aa8b-04239f0a62f2" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="id1113fb1d-a6d9-4ec1-8af2-9df23c67e6c2"><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="id47dc18d7-d755-406c-8d59-bef9f12dc558"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the death of the employee
or Member was accidental; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id66a331c8-9116-42f7-95e7-ec6dcae64c6d"><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="id31908ff8-756e-4c92-b379-19bdbd49a197"><enum>(9)</enum><text>by redesignating
subsection (k) as subsection (j) and amending such subsection to read as
follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id73585f68-3b76-4279-aa00-63468c61cdf3" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="id6fa03d28-b617-4651-ab78-9d43d69bb3de"><enum>(j)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id3a20bb8f-5cbd-40be-a7bb-7da8f32c82ea"><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 subsequent entry into a marriage
(or 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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ida3f90ed8-22b9-426b-8cb7-525dcf64e327" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A subsequent entry into a
marriage (or 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="id8328f69b-3420-4b9a-825d-735c061d535b" 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="ideb3dbba6-7bd7-47b4-ae4c-f4161b362b26"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id0fdd68b3-ceb0-425a-87dc-c7e236245bcc"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id74c52581-79fa-4fe2-a070-32db446a1696"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>stepchild.</quote> and inserting <quote>stepchild (or a child of a
domestic partner which child is not adopted by or otherwise a child of the
employee or Member).</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idb1fb325f-4c3d-4c1d-b6ce-71d6d27f54d2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (j)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idefad2270-65e2-49c9-bafc-70682a0362c6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(A), by
inserting <quote>(or the domestic partner, if any)</quote> after <quote>the
spouse, if any</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide46e74c4-7cb8-4e66-a93f-0fa901fedd51"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>(or domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id22c600bd-0ce8-4b8c-a4d4-a5e38c9d0b93"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former spouse</quote> each place
it appears.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="idbf63e240-81ca-4c51-b519-6f93b8ccec1f"><enum>207.</enum><header>Alternative forms of
annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8343a is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ida8fa6829-1865-4c21-a50d-a63c2cf8d33d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idb5718d00-6ce5-476f-b0f5-a710515f1dad"><enum>(A)</enum><text>(in the material before
subparagraph (A)), by inserting <quote>(or in a domestic partnership)</quote>
after <quote>married</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idbb48e78e-e82c-4a78-840a-129d03372593"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5666ff0f-4b92-4770-a08f-a1eefca08612"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8e1f172a-2439-4b04-90e7-733187f88b0e"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by
striking <quote>married,</quote> each place it appears and inserting
<quote>married (or in a domestic partnership),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id83003e19-cec9-4ccd-b385-d7461fc0a5ec"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by
striking <quote>former spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>former spouse (or
former domestic partner),</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id2ba5d9eb-c19c-462b-9efc-a3a957e0fb8b"><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="idf672663d-ae08-4731-b5be-85dec59ccefd"><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 (and domestic partners), and
their former spouses (and former domestic partners)</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="id03847ad2-8571-4546-a1c5-42fd2584b245"><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="idd23876d7-d31f-46f2-abf3-aa2f4bf73736"><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="id33639f03-97fb-40a7-8e1e-a54203ba93ec"><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="idaaf18989-5002-4f95-8f8f-97fcdac62709"><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>
<subtitle id="id93ebbea3-ecb4-40af-b05c-0c37fbb018e0"><enum>A</enum><header>General
provisions</header>
<section id="id4f56e17d-4f62-43ba-a16e-1d82dd8c98ae"><enum>301.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8401 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id1f95da42-5f9f-43cb-95a0-5eda502a63f5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (36), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id892c16d7-a294-414f-bb5b-a045cb6b8eeb"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (37), by
striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id4f01170d-dc78-4b68-9d47-3894c4e63233"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75560aef-ec3e-4789-abce-44243f1a188a" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id79b869ca-86c1-45ce-8f72-eec232def6be"><enum>(38)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section 2501; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1c703b94-ace5-41c8-94bf-d188da39494b"><enum>(39)</enum><text><term>former domestic
partner</term> means a former domestic partner of an individual—</text>
<subparagraph id="id7d68f990-f8ae-4bee-b66e-210c4e93a62b"><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="id19a87079-d58e-4c3f-a190-cb1f3eff77fc"><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></subtitle><subtitle id="idb45ea569-20e0-4785-bbe5-cc0d83153f6a"><enum>B</enum><header>Creditable
service</header>
<section id="idf360f6b7-a74c-49ce-9078-ab08370ad6a5"><enum>311.</enum><header>Creditable
service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8411 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idfe3a0948-8e4b-4f65-99ee-fcf663b9ef41"><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="id025a00d7-fa69-4aef-88f9-eb61189a8b35"><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="iddccbd3ba-f720-4aa9-b46c-3fd80bcec133"><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="id3238ffa1-54b5-47e9-9c3d-03530de0515c"><enum>312.</enum><header>Survivor reduction for
a current spouse or a current domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="id2f5f5f3d-ea7a-4c0b-afed-1bff6a5d8799"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8416 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idcd42dcb3-73bb-4d39-8fba-704a332978fc"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section heading,
by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(or domestic
partner)</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">spouse</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idf6060780-8351-4c89-b195-0e27bdfb01c1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ide9f5b9e8-a9e1-492a-a693-350c5a50ebd1"><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="id02677c47-af25-4731-9b40-fe8427d96ffc"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id34baf05a-22ca-47b5-9e9b-62d4197fc338"><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="id22007136-1a0a-4333-86af-4c9c1137715b"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking subsection
(b) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ida8508166-e76e-403e-a446-30f237a443f6" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="id753c89e0-b0f2-4128-a9f8-4b3e81e0dba9"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id57bff1ee-d1a7-4276-90ea-5aa1c9a1f241"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Upon entry into a
subsequent marriage (or 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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="ide5b12d8c-e1f1-49b6-b8b6-1907ea2399ff" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(A)</enum><text>within 2 years after such
entry into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id112e6595-deac-443c-a1a0-ab8535811fb4" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if later, within 2 years
after—</text>
<clause id="id21f9f8a4-bece-449b-9346-cdc100a96ea9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the death of or entry
into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by any former spouse (or
former domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a
survivor annuity under section 8445, or</text>
</clause><clause id="idcbd5c565-de53-4fdf-a24e-813c124623c3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if there was more than 1 surviving former
spouse (or surviving former domestic partner), the death of or entry into a
subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by the last such surviving former
spouse (or surviving former domestic partner),</text>
</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph" indent="paragraph">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></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id67198954-d495-4b0d-b811-653245defa25" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 subsequent marriage (or entry into the subsequent domestic
partnership).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idff788f68-5a6b-4ec6-a890-8896d82c319c" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="idf79e329f-42cf-4358-a8a4-fdaeebee727d"><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="id8fd8ce9c-fa92-40b0-92e9-cf16b5c89017"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idf94249e5-9a39-47aa-ab92-9aa9ec2c597e" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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="idc6b4fcf5-a382-4ee0-bc09-2a5831031e3a"><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="id61aad93f-3829-4ed6-9f82-e0361ea04054"><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="idf2dbc430-c26c-4869-ae02-ed251ca29058"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8969214b-0e8f-4edd-a6c4-e21a30e0c19c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the matter
before paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id35d8b16b-fca4-4106-b4f0-a55b1755db99" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection id="idd516b7df-6070-422b-bc5b-920789735074"><enum>(c)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id5cd205f0-2445-442a-a619-90434c7be274"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id64c2b3a9-6916-46bf-80d5-9747e6efc5c6" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(A)</enum><text>within 2 years after such
employee or Member marries (or enters into a domestic partnership); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id940d649b-37fb-490a-9193-ea754e4c9a64" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if later, within 2 years
after—</text>
<clause id="id1381a799-ac22-40ab-bb93-9a6517673a5c"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the death of or entry
into a subsequent remarriage (or entry into a subsequent domestic partnership
or a marriage by any former domestic partner) by of any former spouse (or
domestic partner) of such employee or Member who was entitled to a survivor
annuity under section 8445,</text>
</clause><clause id="id42f053f5-7301-4d9d-902a-18a304a44723"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if more than 1 surviving
former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner), the death of or entry
into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) by the last such surviving
former spouse (or surviving former domestic partner),</text>
</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph" indent="paragraph">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="id0791a988-0cd2-4a17-94f4-c86869bd6814"><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="id0b467e99-b869-4551-bb53-a256d27aca54"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(d)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id001ef6e7-5646-40f2-b5d1-c1785184020f"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
in a domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd17e5da1-006b-4471-adca-91ebe2ffa32f"><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="id6e759116-e91c-4215-b3d3-03e90760d0ee"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 8416 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5d97ad00-915d-45d6-957e-309f7f038b98" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry level="section">8416. Survivor reduction for a current spouse
(or domestic
partner).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="id17670456-9796-4cc3-b845-d494f484cebe"><enum>313.</enum><header>Survivor reduction for
a former spouse or former domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="id111a9c38-b5ac-414c-a513-7c47eb9cf598"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8417 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idf369e0d3-8c4c-4965-95aa-e9821562deea"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section heading,
by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(or 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="iddaa7749f-5bc3-4312-b0d3-dc1e3d76864a"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by
inserting <quote>(or a former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id2442761f-5a71-4735-b18f-0002de399e8e"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id03a29ac1-d70c-42c6-a1e9-d6d9b729465b"><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="idc07acd40-624e-47e5-8b5b-ae86f3bd030d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (2)
to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idb0bc6a0e-b5bb-4cbd-9cb2-ae2bc241181d" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id96dd1014-ccbb-4a24-8d9e-a5e9cb6668a5" 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="idf7f68a15-f31b-4dc5-9ac0-54d4bbb3b6b4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="idb2336bfc-a2ab-4e48-870f-83dd350225e8"><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="iddd6d5805-75d6-4943-994d-0ed108317a05"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by amending subparagraph
(B) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idb80bbd33-99f9-4d44-a16d-3f55ab1ec9a1" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id5a6f5359-ac6a-47fa-a0ee-6da69f9ca1e9" 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="id30cb569a-02c7-46f2-b209-e0d213df3afb"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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>
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<toc changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry level="section">8417. Survivor reduction for a former spouse
(or former domestic
partner).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="idc79977bb-3afc-42c5-b1c2-5c5040cfc0b0"><enum>314.</enum><header>Survivor elections;
deposit; offsets</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
8418(b) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id6566d784-eca5-4ef9-a6b4-a876e5bd4050"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>marriage</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1e2215e0-d128-4f07-ab85-b9694363fd90"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>former
spouse.</quote> inserting <quote>former spouse (or former domestic
partner).</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="ide45524e4-a976-46a5-a1b5-9a6480045fa3"><enum>315.</enum><header>Survivor reductions;
computation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8419 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idab8117ee-95a1-4b29-99e2-ee1deaa2c237"><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="ide3882e0a-b4a2-4dd2-9b55-aaa834133999"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending subsection
(b) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idde554848-8c24-4ba8-97a4-7232725f7723" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idaa3738a6-6899-4e24-8dcd-774b00ca5f77"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idbc8bf396-6a3d-4d16-97ac-f0392c43acd8"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id1df9b430-b0e1-4061-b4a7-b191dc2ea05e" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(A)</enum><text>after the death of the
spouse (or domestic partner); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idaf9bb374-b45c-4c18-a966-cac14759f566" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id63ebd2db-835c-49e5-8cc2-1f1f938562f7" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 enters into a domestic partnership)
(or the former domestic partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership
or marries) 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="id1e1c6ea8-d0a1-43fe-b363-2cb5f002cb86"><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="id2978d368-9522-46bc-b98b-00aebf319de3"><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="id0c6b3c4e-d099-46c4-9dba-588c162cca3a"><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="id972714f5-ac0e-47a4-b8f6-e66857302b65"><enum>316.</enum><header>Insurable interest
reductions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8420 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id729d7a9c-5590-43dd-9cd5-29a350af3610"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ide6e171f0-ab0c-40b3-ac49-1e6fe2e36ba9"><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="ide4f77cab-a30e-4d00-a40b-a8cba556dab4"><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="id6b38bcf7-8edc-4c46-80b1-dc044f69b656"><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="id4fbe9d58-307d-4756-947b-86b1a4c10997"><enum>317.</enum><header>Alternative forms of
annuities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8420a is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id4e3e47df-0420-4101-8c9c-a5f84f3614ea"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id41083529-b82e-4957-98e1-886b86b34e9e"><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="id729c51c4-77ae-40c2-99d8-7a32ecd8cb8a"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by
striking <quote>surviving spouse.</quote> inserting <quote>surviving spouse (or
surviving domestic partner).</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5360eccf-24c7-4105-b944-93739ee9ecc5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id74d632a2-5c96-473d-bd81-db88e88aeb63"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by
striking <quote>married,</quote> inserting <quote>married (or in a domestic
partnership),</quote> and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9fc75986-9bb0-4835-8ea4-3a2d527acf1b"><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="id9f07c53b-3856-40c0-b200-eb21a832f229"><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="id308783d4-b80c-42d9-90c8-0a898687d22e"><enum>318.</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="id7d3e1573-72d3-48be-b17e-5264f81b269a"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idd5339635-d3ca-4175-bab8-bfe335203b2b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="id9e87b98e-0089-4d86-b382-7ff0def73d72"><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="idd6f0a6d0-9ee1-4fa2-bd62-8bbbfd924b8e"><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="idd912efd5-aca9-4aaa-9a64-cf74b63a01cf"><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="ida49fe5e2-a4d9-4747-a098-ee2cf4e87260"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idb040e31f-8a89-4ab4-8e75-8a65b774f915"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>widow
or widower</quote> and inserting <quote>widow or widower (or surviving
partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id61aaa244-6bab-4165-bb04-cb95adc637b7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking “stepchild.”
and inserting <quote>stepchild (or a child of a domestic partner which child is
not adopted by or otherwise a child of the employee or Member).</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id17e5debd-5faf-42a4-b1d8-c285ba994fb0"><enum>C</enum><header>Thrift Savings
Plan</header>
<section id="id8cbcb9fe-2f36-4af0-9df7-8d4ab65e3929"><enum>321.</enum><header>Benefits and election
of benefits</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8433(e) is
amended by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb7014c9a-eff4-470b-82ac-7234d8304027" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idacb7ff3b-4d6a-42eb-8be9-5f899c53abdc"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Notwithstanding section
8424(d), if an employee, Member, former employee, or former Member dies and has
designated as sole or partial beneficiary his or her spouse (or domestic
partner) at the time of death, or, if an employee, Member, former employee, or
former Member, dies with no designated beneficiary and is survived by a spouse
(or domestic partner), the spouse (or domestic partner) may maintain the
portion of the employee's or Member's account to which the spouse (or domestic
partner) is entitled in accordance with the following terms:</text>
<subparagraph id="idfc722487-5427-4caa-b6f3-6c9097d63368"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Subject to the
limitations of subparagraph (B), the spouse (or domestic partner) shall have
the same withdrawal options under subsection (b) as the employee or Member were
the employee or Member living.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd9905b2f-7431-4dd9-a4a6-439ec6dc03a0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The spouse (or domestic
partner) may not make withdrawals under subsection (g) or (h).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9c5db916-6903-458f-b2e9-699ccd76ad08"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The spouse (or domestic
partner) may not make contributions or transfers to the account.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id062d2492-e746-40c7-93ea-c170fe40e740"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The account shall be
disbursed upon the death of the surviving spouse (or surviving domestic
partner). A beneficiary or surviving spouse (or surviving domestic partner) of
a deceased spouse (or domestic partner) who has inherited an account is
ineligible to maintain the inherited spousal
account.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="id33b56e27-10fb-40e4-bebd-7cc0a449ba0d"><enum>322.</enum><header>Annuities: methods of
payment; election; purchase</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8434(a)(2) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id51177b06-e841-4645-9354-68643b4f10c0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id39156686-5bc1-4154-b5c5-242c0298cb83"><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="id911495d3-3748-428d-b0d4-4c749b209763"><enum>323.</enum><header>Protections for
spouses, domestic partners, former spouses, and former domestic
partners</header>
<subsection id="id5aee02ff-7a06-4561-8bdf-788989aca56f"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8435 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idf2160314-f2fe-47a2-aa9e-0908dbb4fc1c"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section heading,
by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(and domestic
partners and former domestic partners)</header-in-text></quote> after
<quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">spouses and former
spouses</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id6bd387fc-a87f-4c93-a4bc-1f6d0a41599e"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="iddd80e5d7-24e1-44ea-9fee-20564223adf8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="idc4236d32-373b-4c07-be76-f128965aaecf"><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="id1c7ecacb-10f6-42de-a276-249be36995eb"><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="idab194a5e-cb79-4077-8f1e-2f3f5e4652f5"><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="id65a183c8-f1db-4351-ad5d-0b9dc2bb26f9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id646775f8-e6a1-4778-b4f0-c420203ef4a8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="id389736b9-6662-4560-a4ed-23307a785bec"><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="idcce31f85-489c-489f-a82e-10320c4ed318"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
in a domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>married</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1db41c8a-a723-4945-9e9d-e1e291717792"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(A), by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idc6627be5-79a2-414f-a286-dbd3d410a9c7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id409e3753-ef18-4ea9-b0d4-954707ceab0b"><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="id35417f12-e300-4532-ad93-a76acaa8825e"><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="id85902046-2a62-40d2-b5e9-2ae52eb33ba9"><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="idda526cdb-237d-4e8f-9340-a499f6c3222b"><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="id59f13c74-11da-4bbf-9906-99fa98bdb38d"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ide9641bfd-bb4a-4a71-ae0c-de72d51d707d"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the matter
before subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57b07707-cd70-4866-a852-05f1f4129943" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="id143fc8bb-139b-4d51-b222-194983d2cc87"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id54a80458-6221-4e02-b998-7a274fbbc8d5"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id658f1549-94a9-4d77-9448-958c1eca7cb5"><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="id1fd74139-8ee4-42dc-bbd8-d85ce7c51191"><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="id41bcee9f-06cd-440a-8710-d01e92fe6e3f"><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="id4628c23d-f58e-40a7-b402-23228ec6aaa8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1ca7f041-721d-480b-bbf8-030c75e98374" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry level="section">8435. Protections for spouses and former
spouses (and domestic partners and former domestic
partners).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="idf399788e-17e6-4cef-b8ab-62114ed75aa8"><enum>324.</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></subtitle><subtitle id="id03d9f0ff-a3f4-4c5d-92ea-2bd5d3dd49dc"><enum>D</enum><header>Survivor
annuities</header>
<section id="idef6e39eb-0a18-4e02-b728-fc3c728a1479"><enum>331.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8441 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id85313aed-d95d-4a53-8dff-841345e7f577"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id098ec758-f631-471e-b1f0-643f77640da9" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph id="id45d0b06b-4821-435b-9714-a61b91291b66"><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="id4f91f536-6224-44b9-91f0-05cd904380b4"><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="id20d3617b-d789-46a0-a72b-9bfdffb5247e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>satisfies such other
requirements, based on parenthood and the domestic partnership, as the Director
of the Office of Personnel Management shall by regulation prescribe based on
the definition of a widow or widower under paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(B) of this
section; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id36d1e58a-9087-4b0a-bcbf-f87f8af54808"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5) (as so
redesignated by paragraph (1))—</text>
<subparagraph id="id3a26d184-a2d3-4aa2-9c6e-6dfb858e71a3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A)—</text>
<clause id="idcd35315f-90e9-4fe5-9655-beafaa742cb8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>an
unmarried dependent child</quote> and inserting <quote>a dependent child who is
unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership)</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="idb698b64c-813b-4021-b51c-f7304fcb9943"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by
striking <quote>stepchild but only if the stepchild</quote> and inserting
<quote>stepchild (or child of the domestic partner not adopted by or otherwise
the child of the employee or Member) but only if the stepchild (or the child of
the domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id5aaa4158-4a60-4ce4-bc23-ce6269136a7f"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in clause (iv), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id05114c79-25a9-4133-a69e-cc4b441f5d05"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraphs (B) and
(C), by striking <quote>unmarried dependent child</quote> each place that term
appears and inserting <quote>dependent child who is unmarried (and not in a
domestic partnership)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="ida4c6564a-78ac-491b-a3fa-03363c5ab403"><enum>332.</enum><header>Rights of a widow,
widower, or surviving partner</header>
<subsection id="id55935f11-05fd-43c2-862b-d9818e899d1b"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8442 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idaab97835-cea0-4ce9-85a1-65dacdc52537"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section heading,
by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(or surviving
partner)</header-in-text></quote> after <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">widow or widower</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idab3a5aca-8b6c-4cd4-a28e-6479bc9ba146"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id7cef9729-d261-4446-99ae-5a2d126beebf"><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="idc550b4a3-d552-4e29-ba99-16039fcee8bd"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
entry into a domestic partnership)</quote> after <quote>marriage</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc71f7182-c158-4906-a6d0-92d9cde5aadf"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idac289932-3d9a-4543-9eb4-0476ad3667fe"><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="idc67769ff-55df-4036-87eb-149a8d5c5d32"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id610003b6-e32e-448d-ba21-6d30aa1efbe8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter in
paragraph (1) before subparagraph (A) thereof, 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="idb180b817-076b-407e-bf08-62edd47f2e47"><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="id6e3256a3-71b8-45e3-b1e6-0cec668487b4"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="iddb253086-c735-416b-9b2e-1795dd8ab6e3"><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="id1bf14a79-67f9-4105-ab6b-c1776f227d8d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(B), by
inserting <quote>(or enters into a domestic partnership) (or in the case of a
surviving partner, enters into a subsequent domestic partnership or
marries)</quote> after <quote>remarries</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id08bba6c5-0c98-4bef-983f-1cc9d416d10d"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text>
<clause id="ide90046e5-a9a6-44ed-8820-b15220d3d72f"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>remarriage before</quote> and inserting <quote>subsequent entry into a
marriage (or domestic partnership) before</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="idc895f93c-a4be-458e-94bc-7bc6c50f1b61"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>remarriage is dissolved by death, divorce, or annulment,</quote> and
inserting <quote>subsequent marriage is dissolved by death, divorce, annulment
(or subsequent domestic partnership is terminated),</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idc66b7b70-07f6-468b-bace-6f0010934a50"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by
striking <quote>remarriage;</quote> and inserting <quote>subsequent marriage
(or domestic partnership);</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id668e0ea3-2fca-4d33-b8ce-d44ce43ed0f8"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="id1b077261-74ce-4fdf-8289-7fa70e0c1f67"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking “remarriage”
and inserting “subsequent entry into a marriage (or domestic partnership)”;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="idabcff996-ef1f-42d7-b25c-de72f8d0571c"><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="id5c055dc8-0578-44cf-a766-73c03f5f5b56"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id6f3b4e62-ff3a-4efb-80af-06cc7634bb2b"><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="idb233858a-b1cb-41dd-8552-aac7b94f2903"><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="id830aedac-959a-400c-baea-62493c82c327"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (2)
to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id68a381f1-4d93-41e7-8aea-a963963ab547" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idd27586a6-c0ee-46a8-b74b-9fc7dee473e6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the surviving spouse of
such individual had been previously married to such individual and subsequently
divorced (or the surviving partner of such individual had been previously in a
domestic partnership with such individual which domestic partnership was
subsequently 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="idee79c433-bcdf-4990-b1a6-000d56f13cb1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in subsection (g), by
striking <quote>widow or widower</quote> and inserting <quote>widow or widower
(or surviving partner)</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id9b598fb4-e76f-444b-95b3-534ad364e328"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in subsection (h)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idfd523b93-1343-4fb4-8d02-720f22fef565"><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="id53d1277b-f0ae-49ac-9e91-1c6ff3b59758"><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="id965607ce-27e2-4cc2-8acb-2d8774d48f4f"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id516273d6-bdf4-46e9-9965-0b3a8c8d3645" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry level="section">8442. Rights of a widow or widower (or
surviving
partner).</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb8f79b88-305c-48f0-b961-d2ae76d03f6f"><enum>333.</enum><header>Rights of a
child</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8443(b) is
amended by striking subparagraph (E) and the matter following that subparagraph
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8008a64d-b902-4e98-a299-f5772c115c04" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="idf288d231-4a2a-402d-b32d-91e150d6aaa0"><enum>(E)</enum><text>dies or marries (or
enters into a domestic partnership);</text>
</subparagraph><quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="paragraph">whichever
occurs first. On the death of the surviving wife or husband (or surviving
domestic partner), or former wife or husband (or former domestic partner), or
termination of the annuity of a child, the annuity of any other child or
children shall be recomputed and paid as though the wife or husband (or
domestic partner), former wife or husband (or former domestic partner), or
child had not survived the annuitant, employee, or Member. If the annuity of a
child under this subchapter terminates under subparagraph (E) because of
marriage (or domestic partnership), then, if such marriage (or domestic
partnership) ends, such annuity shall resume on the first day of the month in
which it ends, but only if any lump sum paid is returned to the Fund, and that
individual is not otherwise ineligible for such
annuity.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="id07451c86-1ea6-483a-9436-de785c576337"><enum>334.</enum><header>Rights of a former
spouse or former domestic partner</header>
<subsection id="id38e0dd61-89df-4cbb-8652-5cf7aa0e769c"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8445 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id2c9b0955-c88a-43cc-83a8-239bb0850312"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section heading,
by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="USC">(or 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="id69a25b77-e18d-4b66-af08-71cbbe5ac15c"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by
inserting <quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>former
spouse</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1012f984-9b1d-4599-bff1-8325e5f7949f"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id2f7ca22b-7f46-4a10-af14-3941533edd29"><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="idd153ff6f-431c-451b-be1e-f4bd3fed91e1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id6014fd97-3cc0-4ea4-8076-a1c6831a1296"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(2), by
inserting “(or enters into a domestic partnership) (or the former domestic
partner enters into a subsequent domestic partnership or marries)” after
“remarries”;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idfe720fa5-e506-4288-931b-634d730455b0"><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="id19db487b-8bf3-4909-9473-ab095ecacd98"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by amending subsection
(h) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idb1edca2a-7fec-4f81-88e9-e29f954f5cc4" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idfb9da451-8b4d-4b38-b3b3-1c378c6e341b"><enum>(h)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id342da113-5ff1-4629-a4f2-11f33bed2f91"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Subsection (c)(2),
to the extent that it provides for termination of a survivor annuity because of
a subsequent entry into a marriage (or 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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id56df49d4-f0d5-46a5-a3d1-332f2a388332" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A subsequent entry into a
marriage (or 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="ide58086b2-8693-4d2d-9bdd-96aea40abd1b"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming 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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2d879a1d-b711-4d64-8d4f-4cb9a76cdc8e" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" regeneration="no-regeneration" reported-display-style="italic">
<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></subtitle><subtitle id="ideae38e79-dea5-4d26-b06d-a76376c05eb2"><enum>E</enum><header>General administrative
provisions</header>
<section id="id3aab95b5-e930-49e3-9c44-b654b294f001"><enum>341.</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 (and
domestic partners), former spouses (and former domestic partners), and
survivors</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="id43881487-f095-453f-89f6-53db61cbcc8b"><enum>342.</enum><header>Cost-of-living
adjustments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8462(c) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ide49f8946-98fe-4843-bc5c-dc9ae52b9b30"><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="id1b8466b4-b1a2-4c5e-bdb4-c94de1a1c4fa"><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="id5af6983a-69b1-489c-87cf-a4f70bf5666c"><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></subtitle><subtitle id="id6122599c-e3e6-43bd-b003-b6671b60c21e"><enum>F</enum><header>Federal Retirement Thrift
Investment Management System</header>
<section id="idf76abd4a-7897-4b5a-80b8-23a4af6cf72d"><enum>351.</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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id2baed16e-6a12-42c2-96f5-b0c6a40a0bab" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id88a36ab6-e16c-434c-8ef9-b2a5604e71cf"><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></subtitle><enum>IV</enum><header>Insurance
benefits</header>
<section id="ide36f2250-e47b-4653-bbd1-647800603e10"><enum>401.</enum><header>Life
insurance</header>
<subsection id="ide43585b3-f38c-4eef-8976-18f46c575a1a"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 87 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id87ce3232-8a95-45ca-a3c0-a224f99fd083"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8701(d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idc5704bff-5c08-4e93-bc77-d8a52bde61f7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="id9161762f-813d-42b1-98e3-7f1a68f4b0b5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id983b2195-4814-4069-b3a3-45ae146526ce"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by
striking <quote>stepchild or foster child (but only if the stepchild</quote>
and inserting <quote>stepchild (or child of the domestic partner of the
individual not adopted by or otherwise the child of the individual) or foster
child (but only if the stepchild (or the child of the domestic
partner)</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id23906d73-deba-4529-84bf-259c0d0f84ee"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id58c472ae-8188-4248-9b28-ecb97f5eb13c" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id6425af00-8e4b-486b-a565-92e1f5b01d49"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For the purpose of this
subsection, <term>domestic partner</term> has the meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ide3e9c8ae-f564-4d21-9e0f-6e70f5137977"><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="idee0cc80a-eadb-4f79-8979-e807832b35a1"><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="ida3a0ccc5-82d8-4b3a-8321-67b185203714"><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="id1c12f7ed-ecfc-4041-a3a9-4f1927d5f7d6"><enum>402.</enum><header>Health
insurance</header>
<subsection id="id31bd2b09-5972-4f0f-94de-883dd6824aef"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8901 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idc93ed039-c047-4e6f-bcfa-e4ecfa5e14c6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id1efdfac0-b1dc-4e2e-b6b8-da9e3fffa2a6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter before
subparagraph (A)—</text>
<clause id="id62de11ab-6be1-4d98-8a83-07c010bc593c"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idf8fc73c9-4594-47da-a5a5-9b7c8f63c474"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>an
unmarried dependent child</quote> and inserting <quote>a dependent child who is
unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership) and is</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1dd91e5c-a5cc-4b63-be3e-49b69da4a009"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by
inserting <quote>(or a child of the domestic partner not adopted by or
otherwise the child of the employee or annuitant)</quote> after
<quote>stepchild</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6da8f1e2-c329-48f2-b256-a0671f6bedfe"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the matter following
subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>an unmarried dependent child regardless of
age</quote> and inserting <quote>a dependent child regardless of age who is
unmarried (and not in a domestic partnership)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3ff5c0ed-d6a6-4a89-8f95-44e573256389"><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="id4e50a877-d527-4158-9500-00398c08fb09"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (10)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id19b3dfda-3f85-4ffe-837a-0ebaa49504fd"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by
inserting <quote>(or entered into a domestic partnership)</quote> after
<quote>remarried</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3028837d-c6db-4138-b621-0e0cd145d89e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id23fcc337-ae53-4471-8a03-03ea8f2dd4d7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraph (11) as paragraph (12), and by inserting after paragraph (10) the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6387c2f8-abd2-4ae0-87c8-ecbd5ec2300a" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph id="idccd0a4f1-4b34-4079-9954-02dcf7fa20f1"><enum>(11)</enum><text><term>former domestic
partner</term> means a former domestic partner of an employee, former employee,
or annuitant—</text>
<subparagraph id="idac6e2492-80cd-4a4b-947c-b24cea8e0d87"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who has not entered into
another domestic partnership (or married) before age 55 after the domestic
partnership to the employee, former employee, or annuitant was
terminated;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id21592a6a-3985-4d46-b660-78bfefd19214"><enum>(B)</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="id49fa8398-c937-4c91-a3c4-4b39fb64f15c"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idc2215724-20a4-4e94-94d9-5f798689f034"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id9663d22f-d16c-4281-bb7b-2883370cccc3" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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 changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id8e894381-e575-4cf5-bfbd-945fad601bbb" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><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><continuation-text changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" continuation-text-level="subparagraph" reported-display-style="italic">except that such term shall not include
any such former domestic partner of a former employee whose domestic
partnership was terminated after the former employee’s separation from the
service (other than by retirement).</continuation-text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id6f36365f-4f99-4851-8d00-76ca319aba2b"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking the period at
the end of paragraph (12) (as redesignated) and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id7e60dc5f-ebd3-4713-b0dd-1b081fc5e0ec"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7dd20c31-b3ce-4270-862a-acf5ad9f56b3" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idf1880f89-3201-467c-8f29-cfc5e9a8f37f"><enum>(13)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id89B5A314010E4F3EAF6E67B53AAA5E8A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contracting
authority</header><text>Section 8902 is amended in subsections (g), (j), and
(k)(1), by striking <quote>former spouse,</quote> each place it appears and
inserting <quote>former spouse (or former domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id11c5494f-2813-41bf-83e7-760452995665"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Debarment and other
sanctions</header><text>Section 8902a(a)(1)(B) is amended by inserting
<quote>(or former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>or former
spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="id4134a6ba-5874-42ae-abf6-82978ee93db5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Health benefits
plans</header><text>Section 8903(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idb45d458c-4f89-40fe-9dc8-7622495365a8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>former
spouses,</quote> and inserting <quote>former spouses (or former domestic
partners),</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idf38f44fe-fbd0-4bae-87fe-8b8ee20b1e3a"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking “former
spouse,” and inserting “former spouse (or former domestic partner),”.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idb162f01f-8966-42d5-8d3e-2e6ba9ae0351"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Election of
coverage</header><text>Section 8905 is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="idc3cd7b71-1311-4a8e-a0d3-e7c709fc5439"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id334f9579-2b69-484d-81a0-cbff735dd888" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="idc78adf34-b8bc-4345-a120-b6b2b07a7cce" 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="idfd2d981b-1118-4ba4-8bda-4fd61bb494a5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to former spouses and
former domestic partners; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idb3f1fbce-dc65-441b-adef-606a5d9d405a"><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="idd278b0c1-42e4-4942-aec1-dcad9f42c51b"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idea5d0452-3d56-48e2-8249-5178038fd6eb"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>has a spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id50930863-0c8b-4c18-ad0c-63064c9dfea0"><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="idc0c8bfbf-7e1c-4e6a-8c05-623a92598688"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsections (f) and
(g), by striking <quote>former spouse,</quote> each place it appears and
inserting <quote>former spouse (or former domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id7ea3d6a7-8fcc-4946-ab60-fece9702f34d"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Continued
coverage</header><text>Section 8905a is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id850d5ff8-dcbf-4d13-99b9-cd8d09de0135" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection commented="no" id="id28c786e0-bb7d-4c84-b8c7-1aeaad1a3f35"><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="id0a88d924-ab99-4b02-97b5-bac39046ac99"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to former spouses (and
former domestic partners); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idcad26d0e-0fee-4936-99b3-ee5eba04ce3b"><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="idb8d53e58-de1f-4470-a2d8-8add96057d85"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Coverage of restored
employees and survivor or disability annuitants</header><text>Section 8908(b)
is amended by striking “remarriage and is later restored” and inserting
<quote>having entered into a subsequent marriage (or domestic partnership) and
is later restored (or a surviving domestic partner whose survivor annuity under
this title was terminated because of having entered into a subsequent domestic
partnership or a marriage and is later restored)</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="iddd82e332-7f15-4300-abca-625a7c0640ca"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Employees health
benefits fund</header><text>Section 8909(d) is amended by striking
<quote>former spouse,</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>former
spouse (or former domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idd1a63487-5679-4a45-9d51-9098e7574151"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Section
8913(c) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id1f47d85f-177c-4cad-a337-80b63dff80e4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(and
former domestic partners)</quote> after <quote>and former spouses</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idf0ca82c4-5c7a-4918-8f87-294afb335056"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
former domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>or former spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id2713448E45A44260A7E66E1D9558EFC6"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Contract requirements;
Federal court jurisdiction</header>
<paragraph id="id4138D44955E9475497170203B2E5B6A2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Contracts for health
benefits plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8902
is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="idDC00B3FED5B94464B9E77CFF7EFF4387"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (j), as
amended by subsection (b) of this section—</text>
<clause id="id6DB292472F964B52847FFF0BDB1717A9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(1)</quote> after <quote>(j)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id749CC840E85945C3ADAE161156CDFB94"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id80E857E64D024A119D78076871377E8F" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id7E6698CB1C14475E98A041A1414483A5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Each contract under this
chapter may require the carrier to obtain recovery of funds through
reimbursement or subrogation with respect to benefits provided to or for an
individual covered under this chapter.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8C9CF03198AD49DF94FB3743AAC13738"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (m)(1), by
striking the sentence after <quote>(1)</quote> and inserting <quote>The
provisions of this chapter and, by operation of this chapter, the terms of any
contract established under this chapter shall supersede and preempt any State
or local law, or any regulation issued thereunder, insofar as those provisions
or terms relate to health insurance or any plan. This paragraph does not apply
with respect to State tax or statutory reserves.</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5DDFF024D482467DBB73562137928474"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Jurisdiction of
courts</header><text>Chapter 89 is amended by striking section 8912 and
inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id16CF111A11C347ED93EC56F2EC6FA194" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<section id="idAE2FBD42583443BFB26A50953BD27A51"><enum>8912.</enum><header>Jurisdiction of
courts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The district courts of
the United States shall have exclusive jurisdiction of any civil action or
claim founded on this chapter, except for a civil action or claim against the
United States within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States Court of
Federal Claims under section 1491 of title 28 or chapter 71 of title
41.</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id4d66a691-c00f-483a-83b6-c5aebdb5c9ac"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Effective date</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="idE0F6C0104EEE401590BE53D021DC252A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), 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 enactment of this
Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id94B5544384FA421CAFD8870063F046A2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Federal court
jurisdiction over the Federal Employees Health benefits
Program</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (j) shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id55FC652DBCA64EC9BCE27D50957D3D5A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>take effect on the date
of enactment of this Act; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb646c468f364454bbe3e892c38dc973f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>apply with respect to any
civil action or claim pending or filed on or after the date of enactment of
this Act that relates to any injury or illness occurring before, on, or after
the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id8ae6771f-5b89-4689-a24d-cc6fb8aec960"><enum>403.</enum><header>Enhanced dental
benefits</header>
<subsection id="id9feb2ec5-27e9-4876-94b4-2f86bce08b6d"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 89A is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id328fb95f-6888-44fa-8e86-9f27826e92d7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8956(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idc063e79f-f6f9-476b-b384-c7dc494db66b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or
domestic partner</quote> after <quote>a spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id14ac0921-1b5d-40b5-a457-4d38ffb7da6f"><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="id779f9791-5785-460a-b615-5bc89a922edf"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 8957, by
striking <quote>surviving spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>surviving spouse
(or surviving domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id08d10ae8-87ab-463e-b6bd-faa2065759cb"><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="id9c7f33e1-e1f9-4397-8174-6b735b00cdb2"><enum>404.</enum><header>Enhanced vision
benefits</header>
<subsection id="id2ae581cf-9682-4ff1-a835-00eab0360e5c"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 89B is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id289851e8-df73-4389-8530-045d2bc3bada"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section
8986(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idc9d3790d-dd84-4b83-85ef-26bfe3aa0fad"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>a spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idfd4482dc-7679-458a-8c39-c0cd53fd55f7"><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="idd4de47b5-2435-4f5e-bb17-769b583fa4e6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 8987, by
striking <quote>surviving spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>surviving spouse
(or surviving domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idece56bf3-ab95-418e-82de-5a0d395a31ed"><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="id520c8733-6187-4abb-8781-7eb5cc666a1a"><enum>405.</enum><header>Long-term care
insurance</header>
<subsection id="id4c636497-7723-4459-89e7-c4a48fef0b60"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Chapter 90 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id3ff134e0-3d7e-4100-8aa6-ede9e1e24e48"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 9001(5), by
redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E) and by inserting after
subparagraph (C) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00ae7530-e406-4b32-887f-325ac4f929b9" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="idaa80a32a-6b90-4cb0-9ac8-7f5e3df18822"><enum>(D)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idff65874d-19cb-4517-a5a6-b42e4c6d74fc"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a domestic partner
(as that term is defined in section 2501) of an individual described in
paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4);</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id8c552ffb-3100-4185-85f1-bb9344f80a74" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a child of a domestic
partner referred to in clause (i), if such child is at least 18 years of age;
and</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id0acfdebc-05ac-4afa-bcca-d252e9996a95" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a parent of a domestic
partner of an individual referred to in paragraph (1) or
(3).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idadada01f-d150-4e60-9186-a00d62094c0e"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section
9002(e)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id848f3119-25d6-466f-bfe6-2d27b8ec04b7"><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="idc61ea766-d22c-4d5e-a7a1-0e03e62fdf3d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id55dcd59a-ca60-4711-8657-4a7cf0c35822"><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="idec6df02a-0b11-4731-b00a-ce749d88457e"><enum>501.</enum><header>Reimbursement for
taxes incurred on money received for travel expenses</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="id240f98e2-8b38-440f-b6b9-41681de628c1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5706c is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id5c08e0a0-c12c-4f87-9c1e-dc62487fb98e"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by
striking <quote>(if filing jointly),</quote> and inserting <quote>(if filing
jointly) (or by an employee and such employee’s domestic partner (as that term
is defined under section 2501), if joint filing is allowed and they file
jointly),</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id7e855dac-32a1-4aef-9122-d3a7193f21de"><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="idac2963b7-41b1-4977-ab88-974566492157"><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="id59bfa9d2-97fd-4a84-ac2e-9bc99dada237"><enum>502.</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5721 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ida26a8a29-8fd8-4223-947c-b2291b833d31"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idfa78e84c-49f3-4cd8-accc-a2aec64fd697"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (7), by
striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idb3f70cbe-d3fc-4236-8a88-60a074185c5d"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id03523fbb-79e7-4d1c-bfff-2898bce75feb" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id987f24e3-2c96-41f0-90d1-28390fcef053"><enum>(8)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> has the meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="id90602a1d-7792-4ee9-811c-539be9b257aa"><enum>503.</enum><header>Relocation expenses of
employees transferred or reemployed</header>
<subsection id="id1aae0ea1-7326-471f-8e02-915a27c59616"><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="id4adf0018-f751-424d-b671-0bdb0dbc9bba"><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="id4aac76b7-2533-4b2e-a403-7ca183596c1e"><enum>504.</enum><header>Taxes on
reimbursements for travel, transportation, and relocation expenses of employees
transferred</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="ida73b7c26-9290-4c97-add8-bfa772c12d25"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5724b(a) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="idac82494b-dbe2-4b38-b21d-464aa87b9a77"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking “(if filing jointly),” and
inserting “(if filing jointly) (or by an employee and the employee's domestic
partner, if joint filing by them is allowed and if they file jointly),”;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="ide0e50ee3-f72c-47a6-935d-03e13cba300b"><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="idc6d4b2fc-614d-4d8f-a14e-4f7f0057295c"><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="idc687b6bd-4ab9-4ea2-bd50-6836c21adc75"><enum>505.</enum><header>Relocation expenses of
an employee who is performing an extended assignment</header>
<subsection id="id151f9b2f-c298-4e48-b49d-c0e039dba1bb"><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="idf1097203-2c72-4576-8264-15fcd39f486f"><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><section id="id7d7ff666-6a7a-4f0e-afad-cccde90a521b"><enum>506.</enum><header>Transportation of
family members incident to repatriation of employees held captive</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5760(c) is amended by striking the
period at the end and inserting <quote>, and includes the domestic partner (as
defined under section 2501) of an employee described in subsection
(b).</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="id9ee9230d-8ae6-4a3d-899a-519e89fe0681"><enum>507.</enum><header>Regulations to include
domestic partners</header>
<subsection id="id4d75dcda-f9b2-489f-8f3d-66d4f6842968"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Chapter 57 is amended by adding after section 5761 the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfca09632-e694-42a4-9f82-87e533f54e86" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<section id="id7a4006ff-afd0-4d93-b2a4-a0caf6c4a991"><enum>5762.</enum><header>Regulations to
include domestic partners</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Regulations prescribed under, or to
administer provisions of, this chapter shall include a domestic partner (as
defined under section 2501) within the meaning of the terms <quote>immediate
family</quote> and
<quote>dependent</quote>.</text>
</section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="id84ec4867-e2e8-4dfe-9c08-488d0cb72102"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming amendment</header><text>The table of sections for chapter 57 is
amended by adding after the item relating to section 5761 the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id1c89a710-ef2d-4dc6-a35e-d97cc250b178" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<toc changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" reported-display-style="italic">
<toc-entry idref="ID90da50254c93471ab27841d1611a4db3" level="section">5762. Regulations to include domestic
partners.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Compensation for work
injuries</header>
<section id="idab7deccc-3377-4f06-8759-157f7566dde2"><enum>601.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8101 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idcd4ad79d-3356-45d5-9443-b8efc17a630c"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (8), by
striking <quote>married brothers or married sisters;</quote> and inserting
<quote>any brother or sister who is married (or is in a domestic
partnership);</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id5fcaf9ad-3b59-471a-9e84-27cfe980f3d8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (9)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idfd5f42b9-f01e-4d28-8802-657bd1db140e"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
children of the employee’s domestic partner not adopted by or otherwise the
children of the employee)</quote> after <quote>stepchildren</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id925b39fa-08c3-401f-9152-2cf1c8734960"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking “married
children” and inserting <quote>any child who is married (or in a domestic
partnership)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idf752c3e2-d285-4b2a-aebc-7d09eeba1c96"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (18), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id559d427d-7311-4a0f-bbc2-8976b4675665"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in paragraph (19), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id5e2a4cc3-37e2-4d9e-a0e9-da3af0db1178"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in paragraph (20), by
striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idfbc9ac66-325d-4731-9516-ebac6e463a0f"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida651be92-f155-4e3c-b66f-93dfe2d65166" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idbd30b7d5-08b7-4c54-aac5-36203a49828c"><enum>(21)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> means an individual who is in a domestic partnership with
another individual, as determined by the Secretary of Labor for purposes of
this subchapter under regulations issued by the Secretary, in consultation with
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management—</text>
<subparagraph id="ida0a49c40-340a-4c92-b8ea-202448475f52"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who are of the same
sex;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id771867ab-762a-42c8-b427-3a0e866e81d7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>at least 1 of whom is an
employee or an individual otherwise eligible for coverage under this subchapter
(or any application or extension thereof) based on such individual’s employment
or other service;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id01e3aa4d-b301-44c9-88ba-439163686028"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idd9243fc3-e1b2-4f30-8681-cf9da071f189"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who are in a
committed domestic-partnership relationship with each other satisfying the
conditions in clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv) and intend to remain so
indefinitely;</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id2224bb37-e275-4703-b8c6-4d9d540d89a5" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>who have a common
residence and intend to continue to do so (or would have a common residence,
but are prevented from doing so because of such reasons as an assignment abroad
or other employment-related factors, financial considerations, family
responsibilities or other such reasons);</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idf982c36a-dff8-4833-97fc-77da83667a7f" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>who share
responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s welfare and financial
obligations; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id6bd65a1f-636b-4e15-a0d0-b69e4ea9a677" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>neither of whom is
married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone except each other;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idbe6c8608-6e11-4f09-aad2-66aebde60289"><enum>(D)</enum><text>who are at least 18 years
of age and mentally competent to consent to a contract; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ida542dfee-6939-4a38-b610-2ad45e8cbe40"><enum>(E)</enum><text>who are not related to
each other by blood in a way that would prohibit legal marriage between
individuals otherwise eligible to marry in the jurisdiction (or, if applicable,
in any jurisdiction) in which the individuals have a common residence;
and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idfff10426-aacf-49cb-89be-f2e94d1e1606"><enum>(22)</enum><text><term>surviving
partner</term> means the domestic partner in a domestic partnership with the
decedent at the time of his or her
death.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="idaf0642f5-0ca3-4632-9d31-56dc65fe14d5"><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="id56bcdff0-0fbb-4d3f-a873-4adf5370ac7d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(A), by
striking <quote>surviving spouse.</quote> and inserting <quote>surviving spouse
(or surviving partner).</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id5daa7ea3-37ea-4185-b728-c5ab3d9c9683"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(C), by
inserting <quote>(or children of the employee’s domestic partner not adopted by
or otherwise the children of the employee)</quote> after
<quote>stepchildren</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id814E4FAF5F7B49ED86A546AF2F4ABD09"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (6)
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19135eea708b448f985e73aab0c8e841" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id58d86a1c3943466b8b42a43e8cbc4929"><enum>(6)</enum><text>If a person covered by
this section has a spouse (or a domestic partner), but designates a person
other than the spouse (or domestic partner) to receive all or a portion of the
amount payable under this section, the head of the agency, or other entity, in
which that person is employed shall provide notice of the designation to the
spouse (or the domestic
partner).</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="id5683f957-3ca2-4b2c-a5e6-5f96ef6421d4"><enum>603.</enum><header>Beneficiaries of
awards unpaid at death; order of precedence</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8109(a)(3)(D) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ida5efb948-afa6-4320-80ca-12725c59d502"><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="id960fa3a0-6636-4466-9c05-2a45ca9c1382"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in clause (ii)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idf00c8d22-f2fd-4070-b549-74dfea9ca48f"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or a
surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>a widow or widower</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6c7e5a9f-2678-4f0b-a665-687d18b4e4fc"><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="id5d4834d8-7229-43ab-9b40-daec1e4ab10d"><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="id9a6930ad-050b-4078-95c1-5b8815106039"><enum>604.</enum><header>Augmented compensation
for dependents</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8110(a)
is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id3e01d5f9-555c-4841-a8f0-546e13fdfa18"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idec55d125-de21-418b-82e9-d1a4cbc909be"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>an
unmarried child</quote> and inserting <quote>a child who is unmarried (and not
in a domestic partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb4740d32-5091-49d2-8fda-485d728a78c3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ide3cc3688-20b9-4a56-876a-455ffc0e86a5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by
striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc036a49d-8bb7-47f1-ad38-0526e8c3b15e"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (4) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7b223a42-4eef-4048-b9ea-e3f7e2be6926" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idf793260d-1d62-4be7-a35a-143b7ec274b7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>a domestic partner,
if—</text>
<subparagraph id="id8e293f8a-8174-4eaf-b313-0905c2c6d4be"><enum>(A)</enum><text>he or she is a member of
the same household as the employee;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5d4b9bb8-8ab6-423d-9f5b-e5b4c2dfbdff"><enum>(B)</enum><text>he or she is receiving
regular contributions from the employee for his or her support; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0a658a86-0f21-4dea-98d8-dc2f023925e1"><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>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idd1494cfb-499c-48cb-8927-3e2f9b6c7178"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in the last sentence, by
striking “he marries.” and inserting “he marries (or enters into a domestic
partnership).”.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="id526305b7-17d7-4da4-a5a3-6e062559fc94"><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="id72a345aa-e980-425b-be5d-4cd9a7c85e4d"><enum>606.</enum><header>Compensation in case
of death</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8133 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id0bdcede9-26c9-42dd-ba52-7b459bae58ae"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9807ecc7-9adb-49d8-ade0-67d09371c65e"><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="id24528268-4048-4a96-9386-aae8106e88d2"><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="id4bab9a52-1cec-444d-b3ea-0001e4bcf7a0"><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="iddee1a371-5319-453c-bc68-c34626c04ec0"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraphs (4) and
(5), by striking “widower,” and inserting “widower (or surviving partner),”
each place it appears; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id17cfc927-ce69-4e11-869b-1ca510f6239d"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="idde99472b-580b-4c1b-aaff-b7465a3df3b7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (1)
to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd0723491-34b0-4334-b9a5-c95ffd65dc37" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<paragraph id="idfeeda224-1048-4a16-991c-3a6cf3f6e619"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a widow or widower dies or remarries (or
enters into a domestic partnership) (or a surviving partner dies or enters into
a subsequent domestic partnership or marries) before reaching age
55;</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id960c34d0-8d6e-439f-ad3d-4e760e201ca5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraphs (2) and
(3), by striking <quote>marries,</quote> each place that term appears and
inserting <quote>marries (or enters into a domestic partnership),</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id059c1ef0-8138-46ea-a92f-c873138cfdb9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the matter following
paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="id17944012-ea50-4728-a605-de6a0c75b6bd"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the first sentence, by
striking <quote>marries.</quote> and inserting <quote>marries (or enters into a
domestic partnership).</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idc80ce673-5069-4f42-b7f5-c11b092f3cbc"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the second sentence,
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner) (or a surviving partner who has
entitlements to benefits under this title derived from more than 1 domestic
partner or spouse)</quote> after <quote>husband or wife</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="idf410c751-27dc-4156-9983-05019bd637f2"><enum>607.</enum><header>Lump-sum
payment</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8135 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id3b086f3e-d306-426c-a77f-b3b4a848ed4b"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> after <quote>widow or
widower</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id0217f838-00e8-406b-bddf-8e1b2abdb679"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subsection
(b) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbabab8c3-c9be-4b76-a8ea-bf35119760e0" reported-display-style="italic" style="USC">
<subsection id="id4749eacf-8a7b-432b-9886-0242321b7cd3"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A widow or widower on remarriage (or on
entry into a domestic partnership) before reaching age 55 (or a surviving
partner on entry into a subsequent domestic partnership or on marriage before
age 55) who is entitled to compensation under section 8133 of this title, shall
be paid a lump sum equal to 24 times the monthly compensation payment
(excluding compensation on account of another individual) to which that
individual was entitled immediately before the remarriage (or entry into a
domestic partnership) (or, in the case of a surviving partner, immediately
before entry into the subsequent domestic partnership or the
marriage).</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="idd60c73a9-68f8-46ae-b248-f224983176dd"><enum>608.</enum><header>Employees of
nonappropriated fund instrumentalities</header>
<subsection id="id3a6e6df1-457d-4686-9e88-df97e9da38b0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 8171 is
amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide26cfa41-2c6c-4799-9853-8e5f59f99cdd" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="id77b8cf7b-dc96-4334-83e2-1129ab6bab39"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id6b5ac232-f710-4e1d-9738-67ba32a54d63"><enum>(1)</enum><text>For the purpose of
this section—</text>
<subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idcfa3278a-ef15-400e-a212-bae137881426" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the term <term>domestic
partner</term> means an individual who is in a domestic partnership with
another individual, as determined by the Secretary of Labor for purposes of
this subchapter under regulations issued by the Secretary, in consultation with
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management—</text>
<clause id="id65fc90ec-ca58-451c-b4e6-971bae504f49"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who are of the same
sex;</text>
</clause><clause id="id37c7f872-b29b-4513-98cf-ad2a7104be2b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>at least 1 of whom is an
employee or an individual otherwise eligible for coverage under this subchapter
(or any application or extension thereof) based on such individual’s employment
or other service;</text>
</clause><clause id="id3ba681a2-40a0-4d18-9f2b-dcbaffecc9ed"><enum>(iii)</enum><subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id7ce07488-8c9a-49bc-9fab-2a362ee7cce6"><enum>(I)</enum><text>who are in a
committed domestic-partnership relationship with each other satisfying the
conditions in subclauses (II), (III), and (IV) and intend to remain so
indefinitely;</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id61de30bc-4d27-411a-aac4-540a96bfa546" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(II)</enum><text>who have a common
residence and intend to continue to do so (or would have a common residence,
but are prevented from doing so because of such reasons as an assignment abroad
or other employment-related factors, financial considerations, family
responsibilities or other such reasons);</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id34cac714-a0ea-4f30-a2f1-c2085b945b62" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(III)</enum><text>who share
responsibility for a significant measure of each other’s welfare and financial
obligations; and</text>
</subclause><subclause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idf0d0a721-52c6-4794-81a7-7e16d916a893" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>neither of whom is
married to or in a domestic partnership with anyone except each other;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idf5f139a1-df25-46a8-91be-d6e931577e9d"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>who are at least 18
years of age and mentally competent to consent to a contract; and</text>
</clause><clause id="idc05f358e-4230-4f06-bdae-bd0f6393f8b7"><enum>(v)</enum><text>who are not related to
each other by blood in a way that would prohibit legal marriage between
individuals otherwise eligible to marry in the jurisdiction (or, if applicable,
in any jurisdiction) in which the individuals have a common residence;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idafbbf450-a094-4572-b8b8-486b4028c70a" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the term <term>surviving
partner</term> means the decedent’s domestic partner at the time of his or her
death.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="id7ff6a77a-929f-417e-9ccc-79b208bcc71e" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In the application of the
Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act under this subchapter—</text>
<subparagraph id="idafbf1bb7-320c-434a-a08e-f8f98e8706e6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>section 2(14) of that Act
shall apply as though—</text>
<clause id="id75c4b50b-309b-435f-b004-fef056e60b9a"><enum>(i)</enum><text><quote>(or child of the
domestic partner of an employee or volunteer referred to in section 8171(a) of
title 5, United States Code)</quote> were inserted after ‘stepchild’;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id9705b2ba-0de8-46fb-9c95-818490af9c0d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text><quote>(or children in
domestic partnerships)</quote> were inserted after <quote>married
children</quote> and <quote>(or brothers or sisters in domestic
partnerships)</quote> were inserted after <quote>married
sisters</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide691d06c-ba78-4505-b394-c74c7075b10f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in section 8(d)(1) of
that Act—</text>
<clause id="id44e46b8c-422d-4f6b-aebc-a0bbd4665099"><enum>(i)</enum><text>subparagraphs (A), (C),
and (D) shall apply as though <quote>(or surviving partner)</quote> were
inserted after <quote>widow or widower</quote> each place it appears;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="id16354166-b974-4e9c-aad7-44acbb55540d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subparagraph (D) shall
apply as though <quote>wife, husband,</quote> were struck and <quote>wife or
husband (or domestic partner)</quote> were inserted; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id722f1483-15ea-4cee-bf56-c79469ba568d"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in section 9 of that
Act—</text>
<clause id="id635f2f69-18e6-401a-a89d-be74bfc7d29a"><enum>(i)</enum><text>subsection (b) shall
apply as though the portion of the first sentence up to and including the sixth
comma reads as follows: <quote>If there be a widow or widower (or surviving
partner) and no child of the deceased, to such widow or widower (or surviving
partner) 50 per centum of the average wages of the deceased, during widowhood,
or dependent widowerhood (or during the life of the surviving partner, as the
case may be), with 2 years’ compensation in 1 sum upon remarriage (or entry
into a domestic partnership) of such widow or widower (or entry into another
domestic partnership or marriage of such surviving partner); and if there be a
surviving child or children of the deceased, the additional amount of
16<fraction>2/3</fraction> per centum of such wages for each such child; in
case of the death or remarriage (or entry into a domestic partnership) of such
widow or widower (or entry into another domestic partnership or a marriage of
such surviving partner)</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause id="id37fc7e8c-4457-4a14-b002-2a65d66a4d45"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subsection (c) shall
apply as though the portion of the subsection up to and including the fourth
comma reads as follows: ‘If there be 1 surviving child of the deceased, but no
widow or widower (or surviving partner), then for the support of such child 50
per centum of the wages of the deceased; and if there be more than 1 surviving
child of the deceased, but no widow or dependent husband (or surviving
partner),’;</text>
</clause><clause id="idc51ee569-b7a1-4eb6-84a7-49de614f34c5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>subsection (d) shall
apply as though—</text>
<subclause id="ida1a7c9d2-0757-4670-96d8-3ed2647855d0"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the portion of the first
sentence up through the word <quote>children</quote> reads as follows: ‘If
there be no surviving wife or husband (or surviving domestic partner) or child,
or if the amount payable to a surviving wife or husband (or surviving domestic
partner) and to children’; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id484e8b10-93ca-46c3-8da9-41228fed00d1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the second sentence
reads as follows: ‘But in no case shall the aggregate amount payable under this
subsection exceed the difference between 66<fraction>2/3</fraction> per centum
of such wages and the amount payable as hereinbefore provided to widow or
widower (or surviving partner) and for the support of surviving child or
children.’;</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idf28a5667-0360-4981-a592-0537aa48542f"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>subsection (g) shall
apply as though the term <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> were
inserted after <quote>surviving wife</quote> each place it appears; and</text>
</clause><clause id="id254cd3e6-257a-4ebf-a8db-8f2ebc92e6e6"><enum>(v)</enum><text>section 31(b)(2)(C) shall
apply as though the term <term>(or domestic partner)</term> were inserted after
<quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="id28d30fae-95e2-4ebf-995c-e81bdc5cb261"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exclusive
liability</header><text>Section 8173 is amended by striking
<quote>spouse,</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic
partner),</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id9ee4c65c-702c-4904-a642-9772d6c48c8d"><enum>609.</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<subsection id="idfcbcedd6-54c6-4f22-a51b-0d9daabd2d90"><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="idf1263660-6b72-4e46-ba33-6ae747ffea49"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall take effect on the
date of enactment of this Act; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id09a5aaf9-c42c-451b-b957-7ad36b147106"><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="idf8c10320-dce1-4f59-bedf-9aba28d135c3"><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="idb3e5c724-cce7-4de6-a27c-c45d0787c721"><enum>(1)</enum><text>unless timely claim
therefor is filed in accordance with the provisions of section 8122 or 8193 of
title 5, United States Code (as applicable), and subsection (c); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="iddee1a9b4-68de-449d-9dd6-e1ea9b3112a0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>with respect to any
period commencing before the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id5cf7f0cd-b366-4f61-b5a3-62277ee4ad7c"><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="id996075ed-e3dd-4e16-822d-d00bfc3281da"><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="id1c354a37-5e24-48b3-828d-5844c012fe2f"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the timeliness of any
such claim, if not precluded by paragraph (1), shall be determined—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9d1e4fa7-8170-42de-9239-e9cfc7fef947"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by applying the
provisions of such section 8122 or 8193 (as applicable); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide1649490-796b-4699-b610-362808f43e6f"><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 the provisions of section 2502(a) of title 5, United
States Code (as added by section 101 of this Act) become effective.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id227eb677-47e2-4fcb-955c-a452ad55e2de"><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>Employee leave; death
or captivity compensation; other employee benefits </header>
<section id="ida0938e03-f86b-4def-91eb-2d2bf0a1e65f"><enum>701.</enum><header>Voluntary transfers of
leave; Voluntary Leave Bank Program</header>
<subsection id="id3c60c449-30d3-4aee-aaa6-2eb7f41a89dd"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Voluntary transfers of
leave</header><text>Section 6333 is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2177663-389e-48f7-9e33-ca3028160b39" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idd4850c13-af69-4957-94b6-c4dfdad60223"><enum>(d)</enum><text>Regulations to carry out
this section shall include provisions to ensure that, in the administration of
this section, a domestic partner (as that term is defined in section 2501)
shall be afforded the same status as a
spouse.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="id609fc6f9-7f14-4e6f-b0f9-e93be0787ac4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Voluntary leave bank
program</header><text>Section 6362 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="ideedad9e3-4e7c-456b-8062-8880b2366a66"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(a)</quote> before <quote>Notwithstanding</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idcaf4cb69-0a12-404a-b95e-fb2c323732e2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65d5b252-3c81-4108-8188-a2e2b118e965" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idac3f4def-3273-4b27-b3d5-0697739b3e5a"><enum>(b)</enum><text>The established program
under this section shall include provisions to ensure that, in the
administration of this section, a domestic partner (as that term is defined in
section 2501) shall be afforded the same status as a
spouse.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id98dd545b-675f-44bf-91f8-53facb275d18"><enum>702.</enum><header>Family and medical
leave</header>
<subsection id="idc22871ad-830e-4b21-9b24-698e9f2cc47f"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header>
<paragraph id="id03addee1-9bf3-4def-b688-3936bd2c085c"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6381 is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="id5a3ef1ca-852c-4f6a-95b3-afe7b1644178"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (6), in the matter before
subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>parentis,</quote> and inserting
<quote>parentis (or a biological, adopted, or foster child of the domestic
partner of the employee),</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide06693ad-93b9-451b-9a72-002b90da2bcb"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (11), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5cd9e22b-108a-4d85-b4da-db99bbe558b8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (12), by
striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id34531f67-aa8b-49a5-9d10-23e2438b0b27"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by adding after paragraph
(12) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idef95fa01-78d3-4673-9053-0f34b1b4f92d" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id4cd46164-4783-4734-ba66-73f137f2e404"><enum>(13)</enum><text>the term <term>domestic
partner</term> has the meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id235321c6-ee7d-4d03-86a7-5463e91c7456"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Leave
requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6382 is
amended by striking <quote>spouse,</quote> each place that term appears and
inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic partner),</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id78dd8219-097f-462b-9813-7c37bf547ec1"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id66c31c07-67f6-4189-8c29-bdc9a6004ceb"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Congressional
Accountability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202 of
the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1312) is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf66aa323-171d-4e2b-855e-0e2d35a83afa" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" id="id28118f49-9be8-43a0-8012-388be834ed95"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Coverage of employees
with domestic partners</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="idedb029e4-a220-4c1a-872c-53bfc10cc8b2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of domestic
partner</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>domestic
partner</term> has the meaning given under section 2501 of title 5, United
States Code.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id070ce439-d1ae-4f1f-8a22-8757098434de"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application to covered
employees</header><text>In the application of the Family and Medical Leave Act
of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) under subsection (a)(1) as to a covered
employee who has a domestic partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="id2314bee5-4bcb-4b1f-9cd5-030d76f96ec8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>sections 102 through 105
of that Act shall apply as though <quote>domestic partner</quote> were inserted
after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears in those sections;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb0109120-320f-4dc3-9048-a3b92676c416"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 101(12) of that
Act shall apply as though a child of the domestic partner of a covered
employee, which child meets the conditions of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of that
section, were included in the term <quote>son or daughter</quote> as defined in
that section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide2a7ee26-494a-4f7f-b857-aed0aac444bb"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the covered employee
and the domestic partner of the covered employee are employed by the same
employing office, the limit on the aggregate number of workweeks of leave to
which both may be entitled, as stated in section 102(f) of that Act, shall
apply.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id1aa18461-f198-41ef-8357-b87ddec06f15"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application to
employees of the Government Accountability Office</header><text>In the
application of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et
seq.) as to an employee of the Government Accountability Office who has a
domestic partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="idb503e394-eaac-4bd4-81c2-4ecffb0e9814"><enum>(A)</enum><text>sections 102 through 105
of that Act shall apply as though <quote>domestic partner</quote> were inserted
after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears in those sections;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4a80e6a3-fe02-49e1-9c21-215174c2ff66"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 101(12) of that
Act shall apply as though a child of the domestic partner of the employee,
which child meets the conditions of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of that section,
were included in the term <quote>son or daughter</quote> as defined in that
section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id34107d57-baf8-472c-a457-986a34c7d883"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in any case in which the
employee and the domestic partner of the employee are both employed by the
Government Accountability Office, the limit on the aggregate number of
workweeks of leave to which both may be entitled, as stated in section 102(f)
of that Act, shall
apply.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idde5f8fc5-d3a9-4f71-9ad3-1058e0daf326"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Presidential and
Executive Office Accountability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 412 of title 3, United States Code,
is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id890ec144-4ca1-450e-9335-ce676b471c7d" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" id="id0f4c6c73-bac0-46af-be2d-db215f15729e"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Coverage of employees
with domestic partners</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id98ffe1cd-330b-454f-a4b5-013cd96af9d2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of domestic
partner</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>domestic
partner</term> has the meaning given under section 2501 of title 5.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc752be91-f4cd-43cd-b133-2df5cc78e26d"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application to covered
employees</header><text>In the application of the Family and Medical Leave Act
of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) under subsection (a)(1) as to a covered
employee who has a domestic partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="idaab68209-ff6d-42b1-a511-f241616b4b35"><enum>(A)</enum><text>sections 102 through 105
of that Act shall apply as though <quote>domestic partner</quote> were inserted
after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears in those sections;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc0965759-c676-48a4-bda7-77724b417566"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 101(12) of that
Act shall apply as though a child of the domestic partner of a covered
employee, which child meets the conditions of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of that
section, were included in the term <quote>son or daughter</quote> as defined in
that section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id696254e2-3505-4452-aa54-4033246ebd81"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if the covered employee
and the domestic partner of the covered employee are employed by the same
employing office, the limit on the aggregate number of workweeks of leave to
which both may be entitled, as stated in section 102(f) of that Act, shall
apply.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section id="id06cd0753-4e8d-4cc9-8f2a-df10b7b184a4"><enum>703.</enum><header>Settlement of
accounts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5582(b) is
amended by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner (as defined under
section 2501))</quote> after <quote>widow or widower</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="iddc2a6ea0-ae9c-492d-a447-0591b9100920"><enum>704.</enum><header>Payments to missing
employees</header>
<subsection id="id5ffe9338-3921-4e16-a95e-1fa3886feeff"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>Section
5561 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id40b61919-a2a9-4164-8763-b1cc2b0fe853"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id39a94517-989d-400d-a200-6cfde19e0fb7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by
striking <quote>wife</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic
partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9ccfcad1-11eb-43fc-87bd-54ae793d4f05"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph
(B) and inserting—</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc5580623-9ca5-44b2-baf2-db174284606f" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="id050683cd-ad38-4c6c-812c-14993ef01807"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a child, including a
dependent adopted child (or a dependent child of a domestic partner not adopted
by or otherwise the child of the employee), who is—</text>
<clause id="id0475da2c-9233-446d-8e90-865e066c1074"><enum>(i)</enum><text>unmarried (and not in a
domestic partnership); and</text>
</clause><clause id="ida51aec90-dead-4f2b-8aad-d77613238db9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>under 21 years of
age;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idc2ce88a8-5d72-4c30-97fe-d219c062b4ce"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)(E), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id71d942ed-e5e3-4fa5-9d82-f4eb5b27e3e9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (6)(F), by
striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ide9b6dc92-f805-42b3-ab4a-81753bc76fc4"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcf043a12-dea8-481c-a171-977a9bed1fbc" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id049ac93a-3c2c-4c30-99a8-97f38185137a"><enum>(7)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ideeea65f0-9100-4b82-bde7-19dda2b6545f"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Benefits for
captives</header><text>Section 5569 is amended by inserting <quote>(or domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it appears.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id37e1465d-54a8-4b52-8f79-eded6fb2be0f"><enum>705.</enum><header>Annuity of the
Comptroller General</header>
<subsection id="id5b2af1fb-72f9-4e87-94e5-d9a77ff97048"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>Section
771 of title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="iddc769ab8-12e8-4d77-a865-3780f893effa"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding
paragraph (1), by striking <quote>subchapter—</quote> and inserting
<quote>subchapter:</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="iddc8f630f-84b6-45ca-8270-cb56e0accf6e"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="ide259167a-9a32-42d3-88f4-75d3bd78f7bf"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>The
term</quote> after <quote>(1)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf2eea418-09ed-4a96-823a-ca9d2bf1b816"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
the child of a reporting Comptroller General’s domestic partner not adopted by
or otherwise the child of the Comptroller General)</quote> after
<quote>including a stepchild</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idd4c2226d-fc8d-4004-8b8a-7efb7bf4c5b3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking paragraphs
(2) and (3) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb21b1285-578c-46b6-89e0-b9a22c186974" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id79629c43-4bde-4d2c-bf5b-b3ac80b9f145"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The terms <term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section 2501 of title 5.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idd9221f65-4b04-431f-a034-b4b8735adccd"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The term <term>surviving
spouse</term> means a surviving spouse of an individual who was a Comptroller
General or retired Comptroller General and the spouse—</text>
<subparagraph id="id5093943f-2c33-4f64-a208-9b0d3c842e14"><enum>(A)</enum><text>was married to the
individual for at least 1 year immediately before the individual died;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id65dd7f4e-65ce-4431-a02a-4b9d781a74d2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>has not remarried (or
entered into a domestic partnership) before age 55 and is the parent of issue
by the marriage.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idc02af405-034e-43a8-8d52-3eb4048f297c"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The term <term>surviving
partner</term> means a surviving domestic partner of an individual who was a
Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General and the domestic
partner—</text>
<subparagraph id="ide01a28d4-2767-472e-9611-57dde5bdc774"><enum>(A)</enum><text>was in a domestic
partnership for at least 1 year immediately before the individual died;
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="iddc7881b6-a955-4829-8d5e-2fefa917a668"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id7733e931-013c-449e-b339-b80bab5ba11b"><enum>(i)</enum><text>has not entered
into a subsequent domestic partnership or married before age 55; and</text>
</clause><clause changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" id="idc3429d60-d489-41c2-b8e0-def5655f32fb" indent="up1" reported-display-style="italic"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>satisfies other
requirements, related to parenthood and the domestic partnership, prescribed by
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management by regulation under sections
8341(3)(b) and 8441(3)(B) of title 5, as determined and applied by the General
Counsel of the Government Accountability Office on the basis of those
regulations.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id7ebb7fc0-a5ed-4a35-82e2-f36295305e46"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Service as a Comptroller
General equals the number of years and complete months an individual is
Comptroller
General.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id04752691-8aab-45f5-aedc-22c4c95e18e2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Election of survivor
benefits</header><text>Section 773 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idbddf9e30-cccd-4b9a-b5ca-89bfb7cfc4b9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2)(B),
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner’s)</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse's</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc07666bd-0cc6-40a6-8a80-0abac3930b1a"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idf7f9665a-6a51-4626-9403-7b9f191fdafe"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> before the period.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id2d3ab394-c43a-456b-b5de-7f67f5b11282"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Survivor
annuities</header><text>Section 774 of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id0eb3e14f-1045-4bdc-bfba-0faad7e028ce"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id7435f068-d92a-4444-a861-82a3b298b30b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (1)
and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9db074f8-873c-4798-87d5-693ccf5c17c2" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="idbd09e0b6-3408-4ad7-871e-24c60c29a539"><enum>(1)</enum><text>only by a spouse (or
domestic partner), the surviving spouse (or surviving domestic partner) shall
receive an annuity computed under subsection (d) of this section beginning on
the death of the Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General or when the
spouse (or domestic partner) is 50 years of age, whichever is
later;</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id80234b36-d70d-4830-bada-5f76746817ef"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by
striking <quote>by a spouse and a dependent child, the surviving spouse</quote>
and inserting <quote>by a spouse (or domestic partner) and a dependent child,
the surviving spouse (or surviving domestic partner)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide74f9c75-e005-4d72-a4dc-d444c813b8ba"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)(A), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idf1c50731-8ba9-4a7b-9924-eacfe0aae1e1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idd6cd815c-058c-41f5-992b-eab7365864cb"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="id9d02ad85-dd93-4508-b73e-fff24ee71d82"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
surviving domestic partner's)</quote> after <quote>A surviving
spouse's</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id43e5f240-6844-428b-86d3-6752e6413317"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
surviving domestic partner's)</quote> after <quote>a surviving
spouse's</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id548148a9-6e3c-4d43-90d1-02062adaeee2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>unless the spouse</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ida9acb6da-8b75-4df6-8745-364fa8d9c2c0"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Refunds</header><text>Section
775 of title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="id51bcddb1-d1b5-4812-ab58-090e7f02014d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(2), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="idc3df243f-da65-4c16-abb6-5a47cf0d9c21"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>surviving
spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idb45b2eaf-a3c9-49bf-96e4-853942c27c59"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Payment of survivor
benefits</header><text>Section 776(b) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idaf2a7bab-50b9-4383-b5cc-6b19766d01f7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by
striking <quote>A surviving spouse's annuity ends when the spouse
remarries</quote> and inserting <quote>A surviving spouse's (or surviving
domestic partner’s) annuity ends when the spouse remarries (or enters into a
domestic partnership) (or when the surviving domestic partner enters into
another domestic partnership or marries)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id72514a61-4c54-4ebe-8628-bc8cbee51649"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by
striking <quote>marries, or dies, whichever is earliest. However, if a child is
not self-supporting because of a physical or mental disability, an annuity ends
when the child recovers, marries</quote> and inserting <quote>marries (or
enters into a domestic partnership), or dies, whichever is earliest. However,
if a child is not self-supporting because of a physical or mental disability,
an annuity ends when the child recovers, marries (or enters into a domestic
partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id28057ed3-91bf-46a4-a452-e483f9966bc4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by
inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>a
surviving spouse</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id16207f8f-af73-425c-bb77-1947595db4a7"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Annuity
increases</header><text>Section 777(b) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by inserting <quote>(or surviving domestic partner's)</quote> after
<quote>A surviving spouse's</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>VIII</enum><header>Ethics in Government,
conflicts of interest, employment of relatives, gifts, and employee
conduct</header>
<section commented="no" id="idc00d7f4c-f4be-4ab3-b343-f36744485cd4"><enum>801.</enum><header>Ethics in Government
Act of 1978</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="id69f14dae-eae8-43a3-b5a5-12f89a532830"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Contents of
reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 102 of the
Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id99c16138-3f38-409e-9b97-663661184f88"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id3ad0bdb8-c153-44e5-87a4-1e8cbdf0bf90"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(A), by
inserting <quote>(or the domestic partner or a parent, child, or sibling of the
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>relative</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ida9579fe4-5400-4e02-8807-d000808a9e12"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by
striking <quote>spouse, or by a parent, brother, sister, or child of the
reporting individual or of the reporting individual's spouse,</quote> and
inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic partner), or by a parent, brother, sister,
or child of the reporting individual or of the reporting individual's spouse
(or of the reporting individual’s domestic partner),</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id9d51d232-82b6-4ec6-97d4-4a5603ac1db9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (4)—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="idb00edb0e-c623-4c53-a009-d8e34de69cae"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>spouse, or a parent, brother, sister, or
child of the reporting individual or of the reporting individual's
spouse</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic partner), or a parent,
brother, sister, or child of the reporting individual or of the reporting
individual's spouse (or of the reporting individual’s domestic
partner),</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id173c4b18-0ab9-466a-949f-609aed7672d5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ida045bf02-cd80-42fa-89ff-c3249db46965"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each
place that term appears;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id8e969032-eec0-4218-aa2c-3f25e3489939"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id618cfdda-5a0e-41a6-980c-f1bf06a7e73c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="ide700bdb1-03a0-46b4-accc-45130abbaf97"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A) and subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (D) by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place
that term appears;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="id60274d01-6171-462f-b6ed-9ad4af61d323"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E), by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner's)</quote> after
<quote>spouse's</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idd431f8ca-412f-4fde-a4bd-bacca09cb772"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(F)—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="id23fbf2da-bd80-436e-b96b-c420622858a5"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(and
domestic partners)</quote> after <quote>spouses</quote>; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="id59931623-e198-402e-b737-b1f96a1a4f06"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="id395e6fbb-432e-4920-adc1-70056346854d"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in the matter following
subparagraph (F), by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id6a0fea93-4178-40a5-b02e-574e97943d03"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by
inserting <quote>(or the termination of the reporting individual's domestic
partnership)</quote> after <quote>his spouse</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id0e526b03-14a1-44a0-9127-a04dc7e5f578"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (f), by
inserting <quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each
place that term appears.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id50ba95b6-9d7e-4b86-bbb5-f204431be004"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions relating to
financial disclosure</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="id297b90ae-62cb-4a03-bcb8-dd292cc576dd"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 109 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5
U.S.C. App.) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="idef1f6007-1b04-4473-b28d-284918311470"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="iddd20a113-f188-4ced-87c8-34cb30fe1c77"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>(or who is a son or daughter of the
reporting individual’s domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>stepdaughter</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="iddce4cf4b-d820-447d-b153-d316eb32f866"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by
striking <quote>unmarried</quote> and inserting <quote>not married (and not in
a domestic partnership)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="idb6ca9438-0655-46b8-80db-e1d2101f74ae"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by
inserting “(or, in the case of a son or daughter of the reporting individual’s
domestic partner, would be a dependent within the meaning of such section if
the requirements of subsections (c)(1)(A) and (d)(1)(A) of such section were
disregarded)” before the semicolon;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id2a123e02-d3b9-4826-89e2-a66b2b7b4ea7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (4) through (19) as paragraphs (5) through (20), respectively;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id566178e7-bbaf-4458-b374-1ff56d23278e"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (3) the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id83a2ef23-cfbf-463b-82c3-b2db00a17f49" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id70a782ac-7787-4ea0-835e-1c6e0de9816a"><enum>(4)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> and <term>domestic partnership</term> have the meanings given
under section 2501 of title 5, United States
Code.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id4f51aae3-3f85-46d4-8288-0eae7fe84840"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Technical and
conforming amendments</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="id5c40b110-9b47-4f90-9206-8af517db523c"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Ethics in Government
Act of 1978</header><text>The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.)
is amended—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="id3f686fa7-9ecc-45d1-90f2-cdea256f1fe6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in section 101(f)—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="id024d0561-1a57-4556-bfe7-1e4ece70a5f2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in paragraph (9), by
striking <quote>section 109(12)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
109(13)</quote>;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id553a4e30-93aa-4934-8b7b-8e52aeb00ecd"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (10), by striking
<quote>section 109(13)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
109(14)</quote>;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideace5013-e6d0-430c-a4be-20f3ed6da6f1"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (11), by striking
<quote>section 109(10)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 109(11)</quote>;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8f8d2e7f-8599-4765-970c-d5bc80d28eec"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (12), by striking
<quote>section 109(8)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 109(9)</quote>;
and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69d51710-84bf-4baa-aab1-2af4ecf4a7d0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in section 105(b)(3)(A),
by striking <quote>section 109(8) or 109(10)</quote> and inserting
<quote>section 109(9) or (11)</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb88c7aa6-cfd7-4857-a510-e686e1f61798"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Other
provisions</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8dbabe81-2c2a-4ef1-b728-2f7df6ba1d35"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Lobbying Disclosure Act
of 1995</header><text>Section 3(4)(D) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2
U.S.C. 1602(4)(D)) is amended by striking <quote>section 109(13)</quote> and
inserting <quote>section 109(14)</quote>.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d454570-d81b-41d7-bc97-4f1a63f56af6"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Public Health Service
Act</header><text>Section 499(j)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
290b(j)(2)) is amended by striking <quote>section 109(16)</quote> and inserting
<quote>section 109(17)</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idbee463b4-e785-4a0e-bac9-d3020b6b2d0a"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Outside earned income
limitation</header><text>Section 501(c) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978
(5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by striking <quote>spouse, child, or dependent
relative of such individual</quote> and inserting <quote>spouse (or domestic
partner), child, or dependent relative of such individual (or child, sibling,
or parent of such individual's domestic partner, which child, sibling, or
parent is a dependent of such individual)</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="ida53e6dff-7015-412f-bf98-32ec4681d972"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions relating to
outside earned income and employment</header><text>Section 505 of the Ethics in
Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="idfb6a439b-7a0c-431c-b699-658a3b50d715"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by
inserting <quote>(or the individual's domestic partner, or a parent, child, or
sibling of the individual’s domestic partner)</quote> after
<quote>relative</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id318a0688-30d4-45db-9788-b91b5488b640"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4), by inserting <quote>(or
the domestic partner, or a parent, child, or sibling of the domestic
partner)</quote> after <quote>relative</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="ida4e0769f-1c63-4d1c-96a8-67f14d66c1c8"><enum>802.</enum><header>Conflicts of
interest</header>
<subsection id="id58b824f5-c086-41da-a271-1bcaa1e2f114"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Compensation to Members
of Congress, officers, and others in matters affecting the
Government</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 203(d) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1)
by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner, as that term is defined in section
2501 of title 5)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97479b2d-58de-41b6-9240-59cf6da842c6"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Activities of officers and employees in
claims against and other matters affecting the Government</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 205(e) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by inserting <quote>(or
domestic partner, as that term is defined in section 2501 of title 5)</quote>
after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ida4c5c494-d70c-42cc-97fb-86000ef3ac00"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Acts affecting a
personal financial interest</header><text>Section 208(a) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner, as that term
is defined in section 2501 of title 5)</quote> after
<quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id833f93c5-0815-4792-aa74-4efd8ac4d029"><enum>803.</enum><header>Employment of
relatives, restrictions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3110 is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideff0da6c-73df-4e87-b352-cb1b8c3c536e"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27d341a7-6214-41d4-8c9a-87bfc5939791"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id63ff8121-3674-4e1e-b619-a22b1fe372a2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by striking the period
and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5f6354d-d7a0-4ae4-984b-901ec30622f8"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id777925d9-91c3-4010-9b03-22f9b3e7dafc" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="id1b58f3fd-1940-41aa-8dad-4802d3fc2567"><enum>(4)</enum><text><quote>domestic
partner</quote> has the meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idca7372f1-287b-4231-8b74-06400d2211b6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by
inserting <quote>The restrictions in this subsection shall apply also to a
public official with respect to any individual, and to any individual with
respect to a public official, if the individual is the public official’s
domestic partner; is a parent, child, or sibling of the public official’s
domestic partner; or is the domestic partner of a child, parent, or sibling of
the public official.</quote> at the end.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide6d6ee4f-a23d-470b-9e80-ba8f363a0dca"><enum>804.</enum><header>Receipt and
disposition of foreign gifts and decorations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 7342(a)(1) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3bd6dd6f-4674-4d76-8f23-b6ae37ff51f2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)(G), by inserting
<quote>(or domestic partner)</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote> each place it
appears;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0e3dba75-5c5b-44cc-b43c-a608334b8e9b"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e3b7aa0-a85e-43c3-a658-7ef126e9c002"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by
striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfe5f8ce8-f018-4218-ad01-9ea1788fa749"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="SSGA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide4aed6e7-8aec-4be3-b673-8450f1c05313" reported-display-style="italic" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e2bca71-27fc-4b49-84bb-a32b8f143130"><enum>(7)</enum><text><term>domestic
partner</term> has the same meaning given under section
2501.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0c074f82-f051-4f07-96ac-886a607556a5"><enum>805.</enum><header>Regulation of conduct;
gifts</header>
<subsection id="ida1990f7a-8d58-44ea-85fb-43123d709f43"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Regulations under section 7301 of title 5, United States
Code, shall be modified by the President, and regulations under sections 7351
and 7353 of that title shall be modified by the Office of Government Ethics, so
as to provide that any benefits and obligations applicable to married employees
and their spouses shall also apply to employees in domestic partnerships and
their domestic partners.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbc4eb235-fb45-470a-bcc6-6e61e0ca122c"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In
this section, the term <term>domestic partner</term> has the meaning given
under section 2501 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="id4747c6c3-d845-4fc1-b157-e63fc743924d"><enum>806.</enum><header>Acceptance of travel
assistance from non-Federal sources</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1353(a) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by inserting <quote>(or domestic partner (as defined under
section 2501 of title 5))</quote> after <quote>spouse</quote>.</text>
</section>
December 19, 2012
Reported with an amendment