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TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA THIRD REGULAR SESSION, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL BILL NO.

20-151 P.C.

NO.

20-366 PUBLIC LAW NO.

20-143 AN ACT To amend title 52 of the Code of the Federated States of Micronesia (Annotated), as amended, by adding a new section 212, to provide for Eligibility for Housing Allowance for Off-island Recruits for Public Service Sector positions within the National Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: 1 Section 1.

Title 52 of the Code of the Federated States of 2 Micronesia (Annotated), as amended, is hereby further amended by 3 adding a new section 212 to read as follows: “Section 212.

Eligibility for Housing Allowance for Off-island Recruits.
Employees who are recruited from a place beyond the normal commuting distance from their work location or transferred to a new work location beyond normal commuting distance from their last place of permanent residence, are considered to be off-island recruits and are eligible for housing allowance unless they are transferred back to their home island.
(1) For the purposes of this section, "Permanent residence" means that place where a person has his true, fixed, and permanent home and principal establishment to which, whenever absent, he has the intention of returning.

A person may have only one permanent residence at a time; (2) “Permanent residence” shall not be a location the CBL 20-166 P.C.

NO.

20-366 PUBLIC LAW NO.

20-143 CONGRESSIONAL BILL NO.


20-151 1 2 3 employee travels to on a temporary basis to seek employment.” Section 2.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 4 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 5 becoming law without such approval.

6 OVERRIDE 11/17/18 , 2018 Peter M. Christian President Federated States of Micronesia 2 of 2