LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN THE EMPLOYEE EVALUATION REPORT.

SEC. 164. LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN THE EMPLOYEE EVALUATION REPORT. (a) Assessment of Foreign Language Competence.—The Department of State and the Agency for International Development shall104 STAT. 48 revise the Employee Evaluation Report for Foreign Service officers, and the United States Information Agency shall revise the Officer Evaluation Report for its Foreign Service officers, to require in a separate entry, an assessment of the employee’s effectiveness in using, in his or her work, a foreign language or languages tested at the general professional speaking proficiency level or above, in cases where the supervisor is capable of making such an assessment. (b) Precedence in Promotion.— The directors of personnel of the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, and the United States Information Agency shall instruct promotion panels to take account of language ability and, all matters being otherwise equal, to give precedence in promotions to officers who have achieved at least the General Professional Speaking Proficiency level in one or more foreign languages over officers who lack that level of proficiency.