CHECK CASHING AND EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS FOR DEPENDENTS OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL.

SEC. 1090. CHECK CASHING AND EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS FOR DEPENDENTS OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL. (a) Authority To Carry Out Transactions.— Subsection (b) of section 3342 of title 31, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) as paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), respectively; and (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph: (3) a dependent of personnel of the Government, but only— “ (A) at a United States installation at which adequate banking facilities are not available; and “ (B) in the case of negotiation of negotiable instruments, if the dependent’s sponsor authorizes, in writing, the presentation of negotiable instruments to the disbursing official for negotiation.”. 110 STAT. 460 (b) Pay Offset.— Subsection (c) of such section is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph (3): “(3) The amount of any deficiency resulting from cashing a check for a dependent under subsection (b)(3), including any charges assessed against the disbursing official by a financial institution for insufficient funds to pay the check, may be offset from the pay pf the dependent’s sponsor.”. (c) Definitions.— Such section is further amended by adding at the end the following: “(e) Regulations prescribed under subsection (d) shall include regulations that define the terms ‘dependent’ and ‘sponsor’ for the purposes of this section. In the regulations, the term ‘dependent’, with respect to a member of a uniformed service, shall have the meaning given that term in section 401 of title 37.”.