[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4549 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4549


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 14 (legislative day, July 11), 1994

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental 
                                Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
    To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for travel and 
  transportation expenses for the family of a career appointee in the 
Senior Executive Service who dies after transferring in the interest of 
the Government to an official duty station and who was eligible for an 
         annuity at the time of death, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES FOR FAMILY MEMBERS OF 
              CAREER APPOINTEES.

    Paragraph (3) of section 5724(a) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) upon the separation (or death in service) of a career 
        appointee, as defined in section 3132(a)(4) of this title, the 
        travel expenses of that individual (if applicable), the 
        transportation expenses of the immediate family of such 
        individual, and the expenses of moving (including transporting, 
        packing, crating, temporarily storing, draying, and unpacking) 
        the household goods of such individual and personal effects not 
        in excess of eighteen thousand pounds net weight, to the place 
        where the individual will reside (or, in the case of a career 
        appointee who dies in service or who dies after separating but 
        before the travel, transportation, and moving is completed, to 
        the place where the family will reside) within the United 
        States, its territories or possessions, the Commonwealth of 
        Puerto Rico, or the areas and installations in the Republic of 
        Panama made available to the United States pursuant to the 
        Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and related agreements, as 
        described in section 3(a) of the Panama Canal Act of 1979, if 
        such individual--
                    ``(A) during or after the five years preceding 
                eligibility to receive an annuity under subchapter III 
                of chapter 83, or of chapter 84 of this title, has been 
                transferred in the interest of the Government from one 
                official station to another for permanent duty as a 
                career appointee in the Senior Executive Service or as 
                a director under section 4103(a)(8) of title 38 (as in 
                effect on November 17, 1988); and
                    ``(B) is eligible to receive an annuity upon such 
                separation (or, in the case of death in service, met 
                the requirements for being considered eligible to 
                receive an annuity, as of date of death) under the 
                provisions of subchapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 
                84 of this title.''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall 
take effect on October 1, 1994, or, if later, the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
    (b) Special Rule.--
            (1) In general.--Under regulations prescribed by the 
        President or his designee, an agency shall, as appropriate, pay 
        or make reimbursement for any moving expenses which would be 
        payable under the provisions of section 5724(a)(3) of title 5, 
        United States Code, as amended by section 1 (but which would 
        not have been payable under such provisions, as last in effect 
        before being so amended).
            (2) Applicability.--The moving expenses to which this 
        subsection applies are--
                    (A) those incurred by the family of an individual 
                who died--
                            (i) before separating from Government 
                        service; and
                            (ii) during the period beginning on January 
                        1, 1994, and ending on the effective date of 
                        this Act; and
                    (B) those incurred, in the case of an individual 
                who would have met the requirements for being 
                considered a director under section 4103(a)(8) of title 
                38, United States Code (as in effect on November 17, 
                1988), with respect to a move that occurred during the 
                period beginning on October 1, 1992, and ending on the 
                effective date of this Act.
            (3) Condition.--Payment or reimbursement under this 
        subsection may not be made except upon appropriate written 
        application submitted within 12 months after date on which the 
        regulations referred to in paragraph (1) take effect.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 12, 1994.

            Attest:

                                           DONNALD K. ANDERSON,

                                                                 Clerk.