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Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees

Part III · Chapter 79 — Services to Employees

§ 7904. Employee assistance programs relating to drug abuse and alcohol abuse

Statutory text

(a)

The head of each Executive agency shall, in a manner consistent with guidelines prescribed under subsection (b) of this section and applicable provisions of law, establish appropriate prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs and services for drug abuse and alcohol abuse for employees in or under such agency.

(b)

The Office of Personnel Management shall, after such consultations as the Office considers appropriate, prescribe guidelines for programs and services under this section.

(c)

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, on request of the head of an Executive agency, shall review any program or service provided under this section and shall submit comments and recommendations to the head of the agency concerned.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

    Pub. L. 99–570 title VI § 6004(a) · 100 Stat. 3207

    Enacted · 5 U.S.C. § 7904

    (Added Pub. L. 99–570, title VI, § 6004(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–159.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 99–570, title VI, § 6004(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–159.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) In General.— Chapter 79 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “§ 7904. Employee assistance programs relating to drug abuse and alcohol abuse “(a) The head of each Executive agency shall, in a manner consistent with guidelines prescribed under subsection (b) of this section and applicable provisions of law, establish appropriate prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs and services for drug abuse and alcohol abuse for employees in or under such agency. “(b) The Office of Personnel Management shall, after such consultations as the Office considers appropriate, prescribe guidelines for programs and services under this section. “(c) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, on request of the head of an Executive agency, shall review any program or service provided under this section and shall submit comments and recommendations to the head of the agency concerned.”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 99–570, title VI, § 6004(a), , 100 Stat. 3207–159.)

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