---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8713"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8713"
heading: "Effect of other statutes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8713"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 87 — Life Insurance"
---

# §8713. Effect of other statutes


Any provision of law outside of this chapter which provides coverage or any other benefit under this chapter to any individuals who (based on their being employed by an entity other than the [Government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3)) would not otherwise be [eligible](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-3) for any such coverage or benefit shall not apply with respect to any individual appointed, transferred, or otherwise commencing that type of employment on or after October 1, 1988.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–238, title I, § 108(a)(2)(A), Jan. 8, 1988, 101 Stat. 1747.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 8713, Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 598; Pub. L. 90–83, § 1(93), Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 219; Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(a)(1), (4), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224, 1225, provided for an advisory committee to be appointed by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to be composed of five employees insured under this chapter, to serve without additional pay, to advise the Office regarding matters of concern to employees under this chapter, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–427, § 9(a), Oct. 10, 1980, 94 Stat. 1837, effective Oct. 10, 1980, with the repeal to have no effect in the case of an employee who died, was separated, or retired before Oct. 10, 1980.