5 U.S.C. § 8913 : US Code - Section 8913: Regulations

Search 5 U.S.C. § 8913 : US Code - Section 8913: Regulations

(a) The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations
necessary to carry out this chapter.
(b) The regulations of the Office may prescribe the time at which
and the manner and conditions under which an employee is eligible
to enroll in an approved health benefits plan described in section
8903 or 8903a of this title. The regulations may exclude an
employee on the basis of the nature and type of his employment or
conditions pertaining to it, such as short-term appointment,
seasonal or intermittent employment, and employment of like nature.
The Office may not exclude - 
(1) an employee or group of employees solely on the basis of
the hazardous nature of employment;
(2) a teacher in the employ of the Board of Education of the
District of Columbia, whose pay is fixed by section 1501 of title
31, District of Columbia Code, on the basis of the fact that the
teacher is serving under a temporary appointment if the teacher
has been so employed by the Board for a period or periods
totaling not less than two school years;
(3) an employee who is occupying a position on a part-time
career employment basis (as defined in section 3401(2) of this
title); or
(4) an employee who is employed on a temporary basis and is
eligible under section 8906a(a).
(c) The regulations of the Office shall provide for the beginning
and ending dates of coverage of employees, annuitants, members of
their families, and former spouses under health benefit plans. The
regulations may permit the coverage to continue, exclusive of the
temporary extension of coverage described by section 8902(g) of
this title, until the end of the pay period in which an employee is
separated from the service, or until the end of the month in which
an annuitant or former spouse ceases to be entitled to annuity, and
in case of the death of an employee or annuitant, may permit a
temporary extension of the coverage of members of his family for
not to exceed 90 days.
(d) The Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe regulations to
effect the application and operation of this chapter to an
individual named by section 8901(1)(H) of this title.