MISSING PERSONS ACT GENERAL REVISION (DOD 84-125)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00453R000300120064-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: January 1, 1955
• Content Type: REGULATION

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MISSING PERSONS ACT, GENERAL REVISION
(DOD 84-125)
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MIS: TG PERSONS ACT GENERAL ?VISION
A Bill, "To amend further the Missing Persons Act, as amended."
lanation fgr the Bureau of the Budget
The current authority under the Missing Persons Act, as amended,
expires July 1, 1955. The attached legislative proposal which would
amend and mike permanent the Missing Persons Act is submitted as a
part of the Department of Defense Legislative Program for 1955.
The purpose of this proposed tiissi).g Persons legislation is to
provide permanent authority for the heads of military or other Govern-
ment departments to (1) continue the pay and allowances of military
and civilian personnel during periods of absence from their posts of
duty while in a missing status; (2) provide, at Government expense,
for the movement of dependents and storage and transportation of the
household and personal effects of an individual in a missing status;
(3) initiate and discontinue allowances for the dependents of such
;Hissing personnel; and (4) make presumptive findings of death and
other determinations under certain circuins t'-nces. In addition, the
proposal would extend the benefits of the Missing Persons Act to in-
clude part-time, hourly, and intermittent employees of the Government
during such time as they may be assigned to duties in Alaska or outside
the continental United States. Eative employees who arc residents of
the places of their employment also would be extended the benefits of
the proposed Act if the department head concerned determines that the
missing status was the proximate result of employment by the department.
The proposal also would extend to any military member while in a missing
status, normal promotion opportunities. The proposed legislation would
be retroactive to coincide with the effective date of the Selective
Service Act of 1943 (Juno 24, 1948).
The Department of Defense on October 5, 1953, submitted to the
Bureau of the Ludget, proposed legislation similar to the attached
The Bureau of the Budget, by letter dated June 1, 1954,
further adviccs given in a conference on September 1, 1954, conditionally
cleared the proposal of October 5, 1953, subject to adoption of a sub-
stitute draft of section. 1(c) of the bill concerning transportation,
etcrage, the sale of certain personal property of an individual in a
missing status when an emergency exists, and extension of coverage under
the proposed Act to include persons on training duty who enter a missing
status as a result of performance of prescribed duty ordered by com-
petent authority.
The attached draft of bill adopts the .advices of the Bureau of the
Budget of Juno 1, 1954, and September 1, 1954. In addition to minor
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technical changes, section l(o) of the attached draft of bill would
limit the discretionary authority granted the head of the department
concerned, where the s to of personal property of an individual in a
missing stratus is involved, by the requirement that, if praactic:ble,
a reasonable effort shall be m.ad,~ to determine the desires of the
interested persons prior to any such s,-lc. 14hilc your previous ad-
vices in regard to this proposal did not recommend such a limit-.tion
upon the discretionary authority of the head of the department con-
cerned with the sale of personal property of a missing person, it is
believed appropriate that such a liiita.tion be included in the bill.
1 Attaohrzant
Draft of bill
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