H. R. 5007

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00965R000400090015-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 34
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 10, 1959
• Content Type: OPEN

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[COMMITTEE PRINT]
JUNE 10, 1959
86TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
Union Calendar No.
H. R. 5007
[ Report No. ]
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 257 1959
Mr. MORRISON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Post Office and Civil Service
JUNE ,1959
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House
on the State of the Union., and ordered to be printed
[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
A BILL
To improve the administration of overseas activities of the Gov-
ernment of the United States, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tines of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That this Act may be cited as the "Overseas Differentials
4 and Allowances Act".
5 TITLE I-PURPOSE AND DEFINITIONS
6 PART A-PuRPosE
7 SEC. 101. The Congress hereby declares that it is the
8 purpose of this Act to improve and strengthen the adminis-
9 tration of overseas activities. of the Government by-
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(1) providing a means for more effectively com-
pensating Government employees for the extra costs and
;3 hardships incident to their assignments overseas,
1 (2) providing for the uniform treatment of Gov-
ernment employees stationed overseas to the extent
justified by relative conditions of Employment,
(3) establishing the basis for the more efficient and
8 equitable administration of the law is compensating Gov-
9 ernment employees for the extra costs and hardships
~L0 incident to their assignments overseas, and
:11 (4) facilitating for the Government the recruitment
:12 and retention of the best qualified personnel for civilian
:13 service overseas.
:14 PART B-DPFINITI0NS
::15 Sc. A111. As used in this title, title II, and section
:16 522 of title V, the term--
1.7 (1) "Government" mean?s the Gov'ernn ent of the
:1.8 United States of America;
:1.9 (2) "Government agency" means (A) each executive
20 department of the Government, (B) ea,;h independent estab-
21 lishment or agency in the executive branch of the Govern-
ment, including each corporation wholly owned (either di-
23 rectly or through one or more corporat.ons) by the Govern-
'14 merit, and (C) the General Accounting; Office;
25 (3) "Employee" means an individual employed in the
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1 civilian service of a. Government agency and more specifically
2 defined in regulations prescribed by the President, but in-
3 eluding ambassadors, ministers, and officers of the Foreign
4 Service of the United States under the Department of State;
5 (4) "United States", when used in a geographical sense,
6 means the several States of the United States of America and
7 the District of Columbia;
8 -(-4* (5) "Continental United States" means the several
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States of the United States of America, excluding Alaska
and Hawaii but including the District of Columbia; and
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