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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2675
To require that the Office of Personnel Management submit proposed legisla-
tion under which group universal life insurance and group variable uni-
versal life insurance would be available under chapter 87 of title 5,
United States Code, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 21, 1997
Mr. MICA (for himself, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. PAPPAS, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr.
SESSIONS, Mr. FORD, and Ms. NORTON) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform and Over-
sight
A BILL
To require that the Office of Personnel Management submit
proposed legislation under which group universal life in-
surance and group variable universal life insurance would
be available under chapter 87 of title 5, United States
Code, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Employees
Life Insurance Improvement Act’’.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT A LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL BE
SUBMITTED.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Within 6 months after the date
of enactment of this Act, the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment shall submit to Congress proposed legislation under
which there would be made available to Federal employees
and annuitants the following:
(1) Group universal life insurance.
(2) Group variable universal life insurance.
The proposal shall indicate whether any such insurance
could be taken in addition to, in lieu of, or in combination
with any insurance otherwise offered under chapter 87 of
title 5, United States Code.
(b) DESCRIPTION OF POLICIES AND COSTS.—The
proposed legislation shall be accompanied by a report
which shall include a concise description of the policies
proposed, an estimate of the cost to the Government an-
ticipated with respect to each of those policies, and any
other information which the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment may consider appropriate.
SEC. 3. UNREDUCED ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL LIFE INSUR-
ANCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8714b of title 5, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (c)—
(A) by striking the last 2 sentences of
paragraph (2); and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) The amount of additional optional insurance
continued under paragraph (2) shall be continued, with
or without reduction, in accordance with the employee’s
written election at the time eligibility to continue insur-
ance during retirement or receipt of compensation arises,
as follows:
‘‘(A) 
The 
employee 
may 
elect 
to 
have
withholdings cease in accordance with subsection
(d), in which case—
‘‘(i) the amount of additional optional in-
surance continued under paragraph (2) shall be
reduced each month by 2 percent effective at
the beginning of the second calendar month
after the date the employee becomes 65 years of
age and is retired or is in receipt of compensa-
tion; and
‘‘(ii) the reduction under clause (i) shall
continue for 50 months at which time the insur-
ance shall stop.
‘‘(B) The employee may, instead of the option
under subparagraph (A), elect to have the full cost
of additional optional insurance continue to be with-
held from such employee’s annuity or compensation
on and after the date such withholdings would other-
wise cease pursuant to an election under subpara-
graph (A), in which case the amount of additional
optional insurance continued under paragraph (2)
shall not be reduced, subject to paragraph (4).
‘‘(C) An employee who does not make any elec-
tion under the preceding provisions of this para-
graph shall be treated as if such employee had made
an election under subparagraph (A).
‘‘(4) If an employee makes an election under para-
graph (3)(B), that individual may subsequently cancel
such election, in which case additional optional insurance
shall be determined as if the individual had originally
made an election under paragraph (3)(A).’’; and
(2) in the second sentence of subsection (d)(1)
by inserting ‘‘if insurance is continued as provided
in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3),’’ after ‘‘ex-
cept that,’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—The last sentence of
section 8714b(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by inserting ‘‘(and any amounts withheld as pro-
vided in subsection (c)(3)(B))’’ after ‘‘Amounts so with-
held’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on the 120th day after the
date of enactment of this Act and shall apply with respect
to employees who become eligible, on or after such 120th
day, to continue additional optional insurance during re-
tirement or receipt of compensation.
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