---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 3908"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "3908"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/3908"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 179 — Judicial Review of Certain Actions by Presidential Offices"
---

# §3908. Definitions


For purposes of applying this chapter, the terms “employing office” and “covered employee” have the meanings given those terms in [section 401 of title 3](/usc/3/401.md).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–331, § 3(c), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4071.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1997, see section 3(d) of Pub. L. 104–331, set out as a note under section 1296 of this title.