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 PUBLIC LAW 105-264—OCT. 19, 1998 112 STAT. 2351 Applicability. Records. (1) IN GENERAL.— Section 1113 of the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3413) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(q) Nothing in this title shall apply to the disclosure of any financial record or information to a Government authority in conjunction with a Federal contractor-issued travel charge card issued for official Government travel.". (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.— The amendment made by paragraph (1) is effective as of October 1, 1983, and applies to any records created pursuant to the United States Travel and Transportation Payment and Expense Control System or any Federal contractor-issued travel charge card issued for official Government travel, (d) COLLECTION OF AMOUNTS OWED. — (1) IN GENERAL. — Under regulations issued by the Adminis- Regulation.s trator of General Services and upon written request of a Federal contractor, the head of any Federal agency or a disbursing official of the United States may, on behalf of the contractor, collect by deduction from the amount of pay owed to an employee of the agency any amount of funds the employee owes to the contractor as a result of delinquencies not disputed by the employee on a travel charge card issued for payment of expenses incurred in connection with official Government travel. The amount deducted from the pay owed to an employee with respect to a pay period may not exceed 15 percent of the disposable pay of the employee for that pay period, except that a greater percentage may be deducted upon the written consent of the employee. (2) DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS.— Collection under this subsection shall be ceuried out in accordemce with procedures substantially equivalent to the procedures required under section 3716(a) of title 31, United States Code. (3) DEFINITIONS.— For the purpose of this subsection: (A) AGENCY.— The term "agenc/' has the meaning that term has under section 101 of title 31, United States Code. (B) EMPLOYEE.— The term "employee" means an individual employed in or under an agency, including a member of any of the uniformed services. For purposes of this subsection, a member of one of the uniformed services is an employee of that uniformed service. (C) MEMBER; UNIFORMED SERVICE.— Each of the terms "member" and "uniformed service" has the meaning that term has in section 101 of title 37, United States Code. (e) REGULATIONS.— Within 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of General Services shall promulgate regulations implementing this section, that— (1) make the use of the travel charge card estabhshed pursuant to the United States Travel and Transportation System and Expense Control System, or any Federal contractorissued travel charge card, mandatory for all payments of expenses of official Government travel pursuant to this section; (2) specify the procedures for effecting under subsection (d) a deduction from pay owed to an employee, and ensure that the due process protections provided to employees under such procedures are no less than the protections provided to employees pursuant to section 3716 of title 31, United States Code; Deadline.

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