Volume 86
Public Law 92–243
To amend chapter S3 of title 5, United States Code, relating to adopted child.
Approved March 9, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend chapter S3 of title 5, United States Code, relating to adopted child.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 8341 (a)(3)(A) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: “, and (iii) a child who lived with and for whom a petition of adoption was filed by an employee or Member, and who is adopted by the surviving spouse of the employee or Member after his death”.
Sec. 2.
The amendment made by the first section of this Act is effective upon enactment. Upon application to the Civil Service Commission, it also applies to a child of an employee or Member who died or retired before such date of enactment but no annuity shall be paid by reason of the amendment for any period prior to the date of enactment.
Approved March 9, 1972.