death gratuities for foreign service alien employees

death gratuities for foreign service alien employees Sec. 410. (a) Paragraph (1) of section 14(d) of the Act entitled “An Act to provide certain basic authority for the Department of State”, approved August 1, 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2679a(d)), is amended by— (1) striking out “national” and inserting in lieu thereof “employee”; (2) striking out “or” immediately after “consular agent,”; and (3) inserting immediately before the semicolon at the end thereof “, or an alien employee appointed under section 541 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946”. 91 STAT. 855 (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to deaths occurring on or after August 1, 1974, and any benefits authorized by those amendments shall be paid from funds appropriated after the date of enactment of this Act for salaries and expenses.