[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5206 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5206

   To allow Foreign Service and other executive agency employees to 
            designate beneficiaries of their death benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2014

Mr. Grayson (for himself and Ms. Ros-Lehtinen) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To allow Foreign Service and other executive agency employees to 
            designate beneficiaries of their death benefits.

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

SECTION 1. REVISION TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF DEATH GRATUITIES FOR 
              FOREIGN SERVICE AND OTHER EXECUTIVE AGENCY EMPLOYEES.

    Section 413 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3973) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a) by inserting ``designated 
        beneficiaries or'' before ``surviving dependents'';
            (2) in subsection (b) by inserting ``designated 
        beneficiaries or'' before ``survivors'';
            (3) in subsection (c) by striking ``survivors and 
        beneficiaries'' and inserting ``designated beneficiaries then 
        survivors'';
            (4) by striking subsection (d); and
            (5) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (d).
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