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wealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Is-
lands’’. 
(5) Section 324 is amended by striking ‘‘State or 
Territory of whose National Guard he is a member, 
or by the laws of Puerto Rico, or the District of Co-
lumbia, if he is a member of its National Guard’’ and 
inserting ‘‘State of whose National Guard he is a 
member, or by the laws of the Commonwealth of Puer-
to Rico, or the District of Columbia, Guam, or the 
Virgin Islands, whose National Guard he is a mem-
ber’’. 
(6) Section 325 is amended by striking ‘‘State or 
Territory, or of Puerto Rico’’ and ‘‘State or Territory 
or Puerto Rico’’ each place they appear and inserting 
‘‘State, or of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Guam, or the Virgin Islands’’. 
(7) Sections 326, 327, and 501 are amended by 
striking ‘‘States and Territories, Puerto Rico, and the 
District of Columbia’’ each place it appears and in-
serting ‘‘States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Is-
lands’’. 
TITLE XI—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL 
MATTERS 
1101. Extension of eligibility to continue Federal employee health benefits. 
1102. Extension of Department of Defense voluntary reduction in force authority.
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1103. Extension of authority to make lump sum severence payments. 
1104. Authority for heads of agencies to allow shorter length of required service 
by Federal employees after completion of training. 
1105. Authority to waive annual limitation on total compensation paid to Fed-
eral civilian employees. 
1106. Transportation of family members incident to repatriation of Federal em-
ployees held captive. 
1107. Permanent extension of Science, Mathematics, and Research for Trans-
formation (SMART) Defense Scholarship Program. 
SEC. 1101. EXTENSION OF ELIGIBILITY TO CONTINUE FED-
ERAL EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS. 
Section 8905a(d)(4)(B) of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended— 
(1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘October 1, 2006’’ 
and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2010’’; and 
(2) in clause (ii)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘February 1, 2007’’ and in-
serting ‘‘February 1, 2011’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘October 1, 2006’’ and in-
serting ‘‘October 1, 2010’’. 
SEC. 1102. EXTENSION OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE VOL-
UNTARY REDUCTION IN FORCE AUTHORITY. 
Section 3502(f)(5) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2005’’ and inserting 
‘‘September 30, 2010’’. 
SEC. 1103. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO MAKE LUMP SUM 
SEVERENCE PAYMENTS. 
Section 5595(i)(4) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘October 1, 2006’’ and inserting ‘‘Oc-
tober 1, 2010’’.
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SEC. 1104. AUTHORITY FOR HEADS OF AGENCIES TO ALLOW 
SHORTER LENGTH OF REQUIRED SERVICE BY 
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AFTER COMPLETION 
OF TRAINING. 
Section 4108 of title 5, United States Code, is amend-
ed— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as 
subsections (c) and (d); 
(2) by striking ‘‘subsection (b)’’ in subsection (d) 
(as so redesignated) and inserting ‘‘subsection (c)’’; 
and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following 
new subsection (b): 
‘‘(b) The head of an agency that authorized training 
for an employee may require a period of service for the em-
ployee that is shorter than the period required under sub-
section (a)(1) if the head of the agency determines it is in 
the best interests of the agency to require a shorter period. 
’’. 
SEC. 1105. AUTHORITY TO WAIVE ANNUAL LIMITATION ON 
TOTAL COMPENSATION PAID TO FEDERAL CI-
VILIAN EMPLOYEES. 
(a) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—During 2006 and notwith-
standing section 5547 of title 5, United States Code, the 
head of an executive agency may waive, subject to sub-
section (b), the limitation established in that section for
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total compensation (including limitations on the aggregate 
of basic pay and premium pay payable in a calendar year) 
of an employee who performs work while in an overseas lo-
cation that is in the area of responsibility of the commander 
of the United States Central Command, in direct support 
of or directly related to a military operation (including a 
contingency operation as defined in section 101(13) of title 
10, United States Code). 
(b) $200,000 MAXIMUM TOTAL COMPENSATION .—The 
total compensation of an employee whose pay is covered by 
a waiver under subsection (a) may not exceed $200,000 in 
a calendar year. 
(c) ADDITIONAL PAY NOT CONSIDERED BASIC PAY.— 
To the extent that a waiver under subsection (a) results in 
payment of additional premium pay of a type that is nor-
mally creditable as basic pay for retirement or any other 
purpose, such additional pay— 
(1) shall not be considered to be basic pay for 
any purpose; and 
(2) shall not be used in computing a lump sum 
payment for accumulated and accrued annual leave 
under section 5551 of title 5, United States Code.
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SEC. 1106. TRANSPORTATION OF FAMILY MEMBERS INCI-
DENT TO REPATRIATION OF FEDERAL EM-
PLOYEES HELD CAPTIVE. 
(a) ALLOWANCES AUTHORIZED.—Chapter 57 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section: 
‘‘§ 5760. Travel and transportation allowances: trans-
portation of family members incident to 
repatriation of employees held captive 
‘‘(a) ALLOWANCES AUTHORIZED.—(1) The head of an 
agency may provide the travel and transportation allow-
ances described in subsection (c) to not more than three 
family members of an employee as defined in section 2105 
of this title who— 
‘‘(A) was held captive, as determined by the head 
of the agency, and 
‘‘(B) is repatriated to a site in or outside the 
United States. 
‘‘(2) In circumstances determined to be appropriate by 
the head of the agency concerned, the head of the agency 
may waive the limitation on the number of family members 
provided travel and transportation allowances under this 
section. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE PERSONS.—(1) In this section, the term 
‘family member’ has the meaning given that term in section 
411h(b) of title 37.