H.R. 3819

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP59-00224A000100690030-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: February 8, 1955
• Content Type: REGULATION

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84Tx CONGRESS H. R? 3819
i 1ST SESSION
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
V1;RLlT?ARy 8, 1955
Mr. CORBETT introduced the followii,g bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Post Office and Civil Service
A BILL
To consolidate and revise certain provisions of law relating to
additional compensation of civilian employees of the Federal
Government stationed outside the continental United States
and in Alaska., except as otherwise authorized herein, and
to facilitate recruitment, reduce turnover, and compensate
for extra costs and hardships due to overseas assignments.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That this Act may be cited as the "Overseas Allowances
4 Act of 1955".
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1 TITLE I-OBJECTIVES, DEFINITIONS, AND
2 GENERAL PROVISIONS
3 PART A-OBJECTTVES
4 SEC. 101. The Congress hereby declares that the objet-
5 tives of this Act are to improve and strengthen the t,dmin-
G istration of Federal Government activities overseas b;y-
7 (1) codifying into one Act certain provisions of
8 law compensating United States citizen employees of
9 the United States Government stationed outside the
10 continental United States and in .Alaska for extrf.. costs
11 and hardships due to overseas assignments ;
1.2 (2) providing , uniform treatment for
personnel of
1.3 all agencies of the Federal Government overseas to the
14 extent justified by relative conditions of employment;
15 (3) providing a basis for the more efficient and
1 G equitable administration of these provisions of law; and
17 (4) facilitating the recruitment and retention of
18 the best qualified personnel for service in overseas areas.
19 PART B-DEFINITIONS
20
SEC. 111. When used in this Act, the term
21 (1) "Government" means the Government of the
22 United States of America.
23 (2) "Government agency" means any executive d,-.part-
24 ment, board, bureau, office, agency, commission, or any
25 other establishment of the Federal Government; or any cor-
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1 poration wholly owned (either directly or through one or
2 more corporations) by the United States.
3 (3) "Continental United States" means the existing
4 forty-eight States and the District of Columbia.
5 (4) "Overseas" means all areas not included in the
6 continental. United States as defined in paragraph (3) of
7 this section.
8 (5) "Foreign areas" means all areas, including for the
9 purposes of this Act the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
10 and bases leased by the United States in foreign areas, but
11 exclusive of the continental United States, the Canal Zone,
12 and the Territories and possessions of the United States.
13 (6) "Territories and possessions of the United States"
14 means Alaska, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
15 the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and all posses-
16 sions of the United States.
17 (7) "Employee" means a civilian who receives a salary
18 or wage from a Government agency, including ambassadors,
19 ministers, and officers of the Foreign Service, but excluding
20 Members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
21 PART C-GENERAL PROVISIONS
22 SEC. 121. Allowances and differentials authorized by this
23 Act shall be paid only in accordance with regulations pre-
24 scribed by the President establishing rules governing pay-
25 ment and rates at which payment shall be made, and defining
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1 the area, groups of positions and categories of persons to
2 which each rate applies.
3 Sm. 122. Notwithstanding the provisions of IE evised
4 Statutes 1765 (5 U. C. C. 70), allowances and differentials
5 provided by this Act are authorized for employees (a) whose
6 rates of basic compensation are fixed by statute, and (b)
7 whose rates of basic compensation are fixed administratively
8 in conformity with rates paid by the Government for corn-
9 parable work in the continental United States, without
10 taking into consideration allowances and differentiLls pro-
1.1 vided by this Act.
12 SEC. 123. Section 116 (j) of the Internal Revenue Code,
13 as amended (26 U. S. C. 1.16 (j) ), is amended to read as
14 follows :
" (j) In the case of an employee of the United States,
16 amounts received as allowances (but not amounts received
17 as post differentials) under the provisions of the Overseas
18 Allowances Act of 1955".
10 TITLE II-ALLOWANCES AND DIFFERENTIALS
20 IN FOREIGN AREAS
21 Sic. 201. The ai'owances and differentials authorized
22 by this title may be granted to Government employees who
23 are citizens or nationals of the United States stationed in
24 foreign areas, except as authorized herein.
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1 PART A-QUARTERS ALLOWANCES
2 SEC. 211. Whenever Government-owned or rented quar-
3 ters are not provided without charge, one or more of the
4 following quarters allowances may be granted where appli-
5 cable :
6 (1) A temporary lodging allowance for the cost of tern-
7 porary quarters incurred by the employee and his family
8 upon first arrival at a new foreign post, for a period not in
9 excess of three months after first arrival or -until the occupa-
10 tion of residence quarters, whichever shall be shorter, and
11 for a period not in excess of one month immediately preced-
12 ing final departure from the post subsequent to the necessary
13 twacuation of residence quarters;
14 (2) A living quarters allowance for rent heat, light,
15 fuel, gas, electricity, and water, without regard to the limi-
16 tations of Revised Statutes 3648, as. amended (31 U. S. C.
17 529);
18 (3) Under unusual circumstances an allowance for
19 extraordinary, necessary, and reasonable expenses, not other-
20 wise compensated for, incurred in initial repairs, alterations,
21 and improvements to his residence at the foreign post of
22 assignment.
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1 PART B-COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCE
`' SE,c. 221. The following cost-of-living allowances may
3 be granted where applicable :
4 (1) A post allowance to offset the, difference between the
5 cost of living in Washington, District of Columbia, and the
6 foreign post;
7 (2) A transfer allowance for extraordinary, ne -lessarv,
8 and reasonable expenses, not otherwise compensated for, in-
9 curred by an employee incident to establishing himself at any
10 foreign post of assignment or at a post of assignment in the
11 continental United States between assignments to foreign
12 posts;
13 (3) A separate maintenance allowance necessary to as-
14 list an employee who is compelled by reason of dangerous,
15 notably unhealthful, or excessively adverse living co:aditions
16 at his foreign post, or for the convenience of the (overn-
17 ment, to meet the additional expense of maintaining ais wife
18 or minor dependents or both elsewhere than at the foreign
19 post of assignment;
20 (4) An education allowance or ;rant as follows:
21 (i) An allowance to assist an employee-
22 (a) to provide for the elementary and second-
ue
23 ,try education of his minor dependents, includin;;
211 cost of tuition, board and room, correspondence
25 courses, usual expenses, and transportation costs;
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1. (b) to transport his minor dependents, when-
2 ever adequate elementary and secondary educational
3 facilities are not available at the post at which he is
4 serving, to and from the nearest locality where such
5 facilities are available.
6 (ii) Travel grants :
7 (a) An employee who has served in foreign
8 areas for more than five years may receive a grant
9 for the travel expenses incurred in transporting his
10 minor dependents to and from the nearest port of
11 entry in the continental United States or in a Ter-
1.2 ritory or possession of the United States, not to ex-
1-3 Iced one round trip, under travel orders unrelated
14 to home leave orders for the parents, for the pur-
15 pose of securing an American secondary-school
16 education: Provided, That no allowance payment
17 under (i) (a) and (b) above shall be made on
18 behalf of a dependent who is in the United States,
19 its Territories or possessions, under a travel grant
20 authorized herein.
21 (b) An employee may receive a grant for the
22 travel expenses incurred in transporting his minor
23 dependents to and from the nearest port of entry in
24 the continental United States or in a Territory or
25 possession of the United States, not to exceed one
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.1. round trip, under travel orders, unrelated to home
2 leave orders for the parents, for the purpose of ob-
3 twining post-secondary or college education.
4. PART C--111;Ph',I~;;~I]~'rATIO iT A LLOWANCE
5 SE,(.`,. 23.1. Rel)resenration allowances may be granted. to
6 employees assigned to f~ireign posts or to resident missions
7 to international organiz