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 110 STAT. 2244 PUBLIC LAW 104-193—AUG. 22, 1996 with this section and the regulations issued to carry out this section. "(2) No Federal employee whose duties include taking actions necessary to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) with regard to any individual shall be subject under any law to any disciplinary action or civil or criminal liability or penalty for, or on account of, any disclosure of information made by the employee in connection with the carrying out of such actions. "(g) REGULATIONS. —Authority to promulgate regulations for the implementation of this section shall, insofar as this section applies to moneys due from (or payable by)— "(1) the United States (other than the legislative or judicial branches of the Federal Government) or the government of the District of Columbia, be vested in the President (or the designee of the President); "(2) the legislative branch of the Federal Government, be vested jointly in the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives (or their designees), and "(3) the judicial brsinch of the Federal Government, be vested in the Chief Justice of the United States (or the designee of the Chief Justice). " (h) MONEYS SUBJECT TO PROCESS. — "(1) IN GENERAL. — Subject to paragraph (2), moneys paid or payable to an individual which are considered to be based upon remuneration for employment, for purposes of this section— "(A) consist of— "(i) compensation paid or payable for personal services of the individual, whether the compensation is denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus, pay, allowances, or otherwise (including severance pay, sick pay, and incentive pay); "(ii) periodic benefits (including a periodic benefit as defined in section 228(h)(3)) or other payments— "(I) under the insurance system established by title II; "(II) under any other system or fund established by the United States which provides for the payment of pensions, retirement or retired pay, ginnuities, dependents' or survivors' benefits, or similar amounts payable on account of personal services performed by the individual or any other individual; "(III) as compensation for death under any Federal program; "(IV) under any Federal program established to provide *black lung* benefits; or "(V) by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs as compensation for a service-connected disability paid by the Secretary to a former member of the Armed Forces who is in receipt of retired or retedner pay if the former member has waived a portion of the retired or retainer pay in order to receive such compensation; and

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