PUBLIC LAW 103-94—OCT. 6, 1993 107 STAT. 1009 "(e) No employee whose duties include responding to interrogatories pursuant to requirements imposed by this section shall be subject to any disciplinary action or civil or criminal liability or penalty for, or on a<MX>unt of, any disclosure of information made by such employee in connection with the carrying out of any of such employee s duties which pertain directly or indirectly to the answering of any such interrogatory. "(f) Agencies affected by legal process under this section shall not be required to vary their normal pay and disbursement cycles in order to comply with any such legal process. "(g) Neither the United States, an agency, nor any disbursing officer shall be liable with respect to any payment made from pa3maents due or payable to an employee pursuant to legal process regular on its face, provided such payment is made in accordance with this section and the regulations issued to carry out this section. In determining the amount of any payment due from, or payable by, an agency to an employee, there snail be excluded those amounts which would be excluded under section 462(g) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 662(g)). "(h)(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), if an agency is serveid under this section with more than one legal process with respect to the same payments due or payable to an employee, then such payments shall be available, subject to section 303 of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1673), to satisfy such processes in priority based on the time of service, with any such process being satisfied out of such amounts as remain after satisfaction of all such processes which have been previously served. "(2) A legal process to which an agency is subject under sections 459, 461, and 462 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 659, 661, and 662) for the enforcement of the employee's legal obligation to provide child support or make alimony payments, shall have priority over any legal process to which an agency is subject under this section. "(i) The provisions of this section shall not modify or supersede the provisions of sections 459, 461, and 462 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 659, 661, and 662) concerning legal process brought for the enforcement of an individual's legal obligations to provide child support or make alimony payments. "(j)(l) Regulations implementing the provisions of this section Regulations. shall be promulgated— (A) by the President or his designee for each executive President. agency, except with regard to employees of the United States Postal Service, the President or, at his discretion, the Postmaster General shall promulgate such regulations; "(B) jointlv by the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House oi Representatives, or their designee, for the legislative branch of the Government; and
- (C) by the Chief Justice of the United States or his designee for the judicial branch of the Government.
"(2) Such regulations shall provide that an agency's administrative costs in executing a garnishment action may be added to the garnishment, and that the agency may retain costs recovered as offsetting collections. "(k)(1) No later than 180 days after the date of the enactment Regulations. of this Act, the Secretaries of the Executive departments concerned shall promulgate regulations to carry out the purposes of this section with regard to members of the imiformed services.
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