96 STAT. 1650 Effective date. 5 USC 8332 note. Ante, p. 763. 5 USC 8906 note.
95 Stat. 756.
Effective date. 5 USC 3595 note.
PUBLIC LAW 97-346—OCT. 15, 1982
(n) The amendments made by this section shall take effect as of the date of the enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982. SEC. 4. (a) The Office of Personnel Management shall determine the amount by which the Government contribution under section 8906(b) of title 5, United States Code, for the 1983 contract year is less than the Government contribution which would have been determined under such section 89060)) for such contract year if the Government contribution had been calculated by using the two employee organization plans which in 1981 satisfied the standard set forth in section 8906(a)(3) of such title. Ob) The Government shall pay the amount of the difference determined under subsection (a) to the contingency reserves of all health benefits plans for contract year 1983 in proportion to the estimated number of individuals enrolled in such plans during 1983. Such payments shall be paid by the appropriate agencies (including the Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission) from the appropriations referred to in section 8906(f) and (g) of title 5, United States Code, in the same manner as if such payments were Government contributions, and in amounts determined appropriate by the Office of Personnel Management. SEC. 5. (a) Subparagraph (B) of section 3595a3)(3) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting "(i)" after "entitled" and by inserting after "that position" the following: "or (ii) be detailed by the Office to any vacant Senior Executive Service position for which the Office deems the employee to be qualified in any agency for a period not to exceed 60 days, and be placed in such position by the Office after the period of such detail, unless the head of the agency determines that the career appointee is not qualified for such position.". (b) Paragraph (3) of section 3595(c) of such title is amended to read as follows: "(3) in the event the career appointee is not placed under subsection 0t))(3) of this section— "(A) whether the Office of Personnel Management took all reasonable steps to achieve such placement, and "(B) the decision of an agency under subsection Ob)(3)(B) of this section that the career appointee is not qualified to be placed in a position.". (c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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