travel status

travel status Sec. 222. (a) Section 5542(b) (2) (B) of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “(B) the travel (i) involves the performance of work while traveling, (ii) is incident to travel that involves the performance of work while traveling, (iii) is carried out under arduous conditions, or (iv) results from an event which could not be scheduled or controlled administratively.”. (b) Section 3571 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection as follows: “(e) Time spent in a travel status away from the official duty station of an employee is not hours of work unless the travel (i) involves the performance of work while traveling, (ii) is incident to travel that involves the performance of work while traveling, (iii) is carried out under arduous conditions, or (iv) results from an event which could not. be scheduled or controlled administratively.”. (c) Subchapter II of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “§ 5733. Expeditious travel “The travel of an employee shall be by the most expeditious means of transportation practicable and shall be commensurate with the nature and purpose of the duties of the employee requiring such travel.”; and (2) by inserting after item 5732 in the analysis of such subchapter the following new item: “5733. Expeditious travel.”. (d) Section 5544(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting immediately at the end thereof the following new sentence: “Time spent in a travel status away from the official duty station of an employee subject to this subsection is not hours of work unless the travel (i) involves the performance of work while traveling, (ii) is incident to travel that involves the performance of work while traveling (iii) is carried out under arduous conditions, or (iv) results from an event which could not be scheduled or controlled administratively.”.