FEHB, Pay Bills Advance

The House Government Reform Committee has approved a measure (HR-3751) that would require the Office of Personnel Management to prepare a report on possible ways of improving hearing, dental and vision-including glaucoma testing–benefits in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program. The report would be due six months after the bill’s enactment. The panel also cleared HR-3737, which would raise the pay caps of administrative law judges, contract appeal boards members and those paid under the senior level pay system from executive schedule III to executive schedule level II (at current rates, from $145,600 to $158,100).