---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3349a"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3349a"
heading: "Presidential inaugural transitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3349a"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 33 — Examination, Selection, and Placement"
  - "Subchapter III — Details, Vacancies, and Appointments"
---

# §3349a. Presidential inaugural transitions

- (a) In this section, the term “transitional inauguration day” means the date on which any [person](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-1) swears or affirms the oath of [office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) as President, if such [person](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-1) is not the President on the date preceding the date of swearing or affirming such oath of [office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3).
- (b) With respect to any vacancy that exists during the 60-day period beginning on a transitional inauguration day, the 210-day period under section [3346](/usc/5/3346.md) or [3348](/usc/5/3348.md) shall be deemed to begin on the later of the date occurring—
  - (1) 90 days after such transitional inauguration day; or
  - (2) 90 days after the date on which the vacancy occurs.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title I, § 151(b), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–615.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 30 days after Oct. 21, 1998, and applicable to any office that becomes vacant after such effective date, with certain exceptions, see section 151(d) of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as a note under section 3345 of this title.