[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3499 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3499

  To amend the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel 
                             Practices Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 10, 1993

Mr. McCloskey introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
 to the Committees on Post Office and Civil Service and Education and 
                                 Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel 
                             Practices Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COMPENSATION; LEAVE TRANSFERS.

    (a) Compensation.--The Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and 
Personnel Practices Act (20 U.S.C. 901 and following) is amended--
            (1) in sections 4(a)(2) and 5(c) by striking ``urban''; and
            (2) in section 6 by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) The Director of Dependents' Education, in consultation with 
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, shall establish for 
teachers--
            ``(1) a voluntary leave transfer program similar to the one 
        under subchapter III of chapter 63 of title 5, United States 
        Code; and
            ``(2) a voluntary leave bank program similar to the one 
        under subchapter IV of chapter 63 of title 5, United States 
        Code.''.

SEC. 2. RECERTIFICATION.

    Paragraph (5) of section 1413 of the Defense Dependents' Education 
Act of 1978 (20 U.S.C. 931(5)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(5) provide for a recertification program for 
        professional personnel employed in the system to obtain not 
        more than 6 semester-hours of graduate or undergraduate 
        coursework in any discipline or subject area taught by schools 
        of the defense dependents' education system, and''.

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