[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2845 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2845

  To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 and the 
Foreign Service Act of 1980 to enable the Secretary of State to respond 
        to a critical shortage of passport processing personnel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2007

  Mrs. McCarthy of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 and the 
Foreign Service Act of 1980 to enable the Secretary of State to respond 
        to a critical shortage of passport processing personnel.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of State Crisis Response 
Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. REEMPLOYMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE ANNUITANTS.

    Section 61(a) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 
(22 U.S.C. 2733(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``To facilitate'' and all 
        that follows through ``the Secretary'' and inserting ``The 
        Secretary''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``2008'' and inserting 
        ``2010''.

SEC. 3. REEMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN SERVICE ANNUITANTS.

    Section 824(g) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 
4064(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``to facilitate'' and 
        all that follows through ``Afghanistan,''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), in the first sentence, by striking 
        ``2008'' and inserting ``2010''.
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