---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2740"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2740"
heading: "Career intermission program adjustment to enhance retention"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2740"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Department of State"
---

# §2740. Career intermission program adjustment to enhance retention

- (a) **Authority to extend Federal Employee Health Benefit coverage—** The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) and [Administrator](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=1) are authorized to offer employees the option of extending Federal Employee Health Benefit coverage during pre-approved leave without pay for up to 3 years.
- (b) **Responsibility for premium payments—** If an employee elects to continue coverage pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) for longer than 365 days, the employee shall be responsible for 100 percent of the premium (employee share and government share) during such longer period.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 118–159, div. G, title LXXI, § 7106, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2524.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

For definitions of “Secretary” and “Administrator” as used in this section, see section 7002 of Pub. L. 118–159, set out as a note under section 2651 of this title.