[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 118 (Friday, August 19, 1994)]
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         JERRY L. LITTON U.S. POST OFFICE BUILDING ACT OF 1994

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                 PRYOR (AND STEVENS) AMENDMENT NO. 2573

  Mr. SARBANES (for Mr. Pryor, for himself and Mr. Stevens) proposed an 
amendment to the bill (H.R. 1779) A bill to designate the facility of 
the U.S. Postal Service located at 401 South Washington Street in 
Chillicothe, MO, as the ``Jerry L. Litton United States Post Office 
Building''; as follows:

       On page 1, insert after line 11, the following new section:

     SEC.   . 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 separation 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.   . 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 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.
       (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.

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