Pub. L. 87-195, pt. IV, sec. 708

Sec. 708. The Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), is further amended as follows: (1) In the second sentence of section 701, strike “to the extent that space is available therefor”; substitute “members of family” for “spouses”; and add before the period “or while abroad”. (2) Amend section 872 by striking out subsections (b) and (c) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “(b) When any such retired officer or employee of the Service is reemployed, the employer shall send a notice to the Department of State of such reemployment together with all pertinent information relating thereto, and shall pay directly to such officer or employee the salary of the position in which he is serving. “(c) In the event of any overpayment under this section, such over-payment shall be recovered by withholding the amount involved from the salary payable to such reemployed officer or employee, or from any other moneys, including his annuity, payable in accordance with the provisions of this title.” (3) In section 911, add the following new paragraphs (9) and (10): “(9) the travel expenses of officers and employees of the Service who are citizens of the United States, and members of their families, while serving at posts specifically designated by the Secretary for purposes of this paragraph, for rest and recuperation to other locations abroad having different environmental conditions than those at the post at which such officers and employees are serving, provided that such travel expenses shall be limited to the cost for each officer or employee and members of his family of one round trip during any continuous two-year tour unbroken by home leave and two round trips during any continuous three-year tour unbroken by home leave; “(10) the travel expenses of members of the family accompanying, preceding, or following an officer or employee if, while he is en route to his post of assignment, he is ordered temporarily for orientation and training or is given other temporary duty.” (4) Amend section 933 (a) to read as follows: “(a) The Secretary may order to the continental United States, its territories and possessions, on statutory leave of absence any officer or employee of the Service who is a citizen of the United States upon completion of eighteen months’ continuous service abroad and shall so order as soon as possible after completion of three years of such service.” (5) Amend the title of section 942 and subsection (a) thereof to read as follows: “travel for medical purposes “Sec. 942. (a) In the event an officer or employee of the Service who is a citizen of the United States or one of his dependents, requires medical care, for illness or injury not the result of vicious habits, intemperance or misconduct, while stationed abroad in a locality where there is no qualified person or facility to provide such care, the Secretary may, in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, 75 Stat. 465pay the travel expenses of such person by whatever means he shall deem appropriate, including the furnishing of transportation, and without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1933, as amended (60 Stat. 808; 5 U.S.C. 73b), to the nearest locality where suitable medical care can be obtained. If any such officer, employee, or dependent is too ill to travel unattended, or in the case of a dependent too young to travel alone, the Secretary may also pay the round-trip travel expenses of an attendant or attendants.”