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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1912 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1912

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any carrier 
  offering obstetrical benefits under the health benefits program for 
   Federal employees must also provide benefits relating to certain 
        ``family-building procedures'', and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 1993

Mrs. Schroeder introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                                 A BILL

 
   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that any carrier 
  offering obstetrical benefits under the health benefits program for 
   Federal employees must also provide benefits relating to certain 
        ``family-building procedures'', and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Employee Family-Building Act 
of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FAMILY-BUILDING BENEFIT.

    Section 8902 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(o)(1) For the purpose of this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `family-building procedure' means--
                    ``(i) a medical procedure to overcome infertility, 
                including a procedure to achieve pregnancy or to carry 
                pregnancy to term; and
                    ``(ii) procedures relating to child adoption; and
            ``(B) the term `child' means an individual who is under 18 
        years of age and unmarried.
    ``(2) Any contract under this chapter which provides obstetrical 
benefits shall also provide benefits for family-building procedures. 
Any deductible, coinsurance provision, and other similar term or 
condition under any such contract shall be no more restrictive for 
family-building benefits than for obstetrical benefits.
    ``(3) To the extent that a contract under this chapter relates to 
procedures under paragraph (1)(A)(ii), such contract shall provide 
that--
            ``(A) benefits shall consist of reimbursement for 
        reasonable and necessary--
                    ``(i) medical expenses directly relating to the 
                adoption of the child (such as those relating to 
                obstetrical care for the biological mother, medical 
                care for the child, and physical examinations for the 
                pre-adoptive or adoptive parent or parents); and
                    ``(ii) counseling fees directly relating to the 
                adoption of the child; and
            ``(B) benefits shall be available in connection with--
                    ``(i) obstetrical care for the biological mother 
                if, or to the extent that, the pre-adoptive or adoptive 
                parent or parents are legally responsible (whether by 
                contract or under applicable provisions of law) for the 
                cost of such care; and
                    ``(ii) medical care for the child if, or to the 
                extent that, the pre-adoptive or adoptive parent or 
                parents are legally responsible (whether by contract or 
                under applicable provisions of law) for the cost of 
                such care.''.

SEC. 3. USE OF SICK LEAVE; PROHIBITION OF COERCION.

    Section 6307 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(d)(1) The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe 
regulations under which sick leave otherwise available to an employee 
under this subchapter shall also be available for purposes relating to 
family-building procedures.
    ``(2)(A) An employee may not directly or indirectly intimidate, 
threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any 
other employee for the purpose of interfering with such other 
employee's rights under this subsection.
    ``(B) For the purposes of this subsection--
            ``(i) the term `family-building procedure' has the meaning 
        given such term by section 8902(o)(1)(A); and
            ``(ii) the term `intimidate, threaten, or coerce' includes 
        promising to confer or conferring any benefit (such as 
        appointment, promotion, or compensation), or effecting or 
        threatening to effect any reprisal (such as deprivation of 
        appointment, promotion, or compensation).''.

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