H. R. 1779

One Hundred Third Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,

the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four

An Act

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 South

Washington Street in Chillicothe, Missouri, as the ‘‘Jerry L. Litton United States

Post Office Building’’, and to authorize travel and transportation expenses for

certain Federal career appointees, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION.

The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 South Washington Street in Chillicothe, Missouri, is designated

as the ‘‘Jerry L. Litton United States Post Office Building’’.

SEC. 2. LEGAL REFERENCES.

Any reference in a law, regulation, document, record, map, or other paper of the United States to the facility referred to

in section 1 is deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Jerry L. Litton

United States Post Office Building’’.

SEC. 3. TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES OF CERTAIN FEDERAL CAREER APPOINTEES.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5724(a)(3) of title 5, United States

Code, is amended by striking out ‘‘November 27, 1988’’ and inserting

in lieu thereof ‘‘November 17, 1988’’.

(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a)

shall take effect as if included in the Technical and Miscellaneous

Civil Service Amendments Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–378; 106

Stat. 1346; 5 U.S.C. 1101 note).

SEC. 4. TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES FOR FAMILY MEMBERS OF CAREER APPOINTEES.

Paragraph (3) of section 5724(a) of title 5, United States Code,

is amended to read as follows:

‘‘(3) upon the separation (or death in service) of a career

appointee, as defined in section 3132(a)(4) of this title, the

travel expenses of that individual (if applicable), the transportation expenses of the immediate family of such individual,

and the expenses of moving (including transporting, packing,

crating, temporarily storing, draying, and unpacking) the household goods of such individual and personal effects not in excess

of eighteen thousand pounds net weight, to the place where

the individual will reside (or, in the case of a career appointee

who dies in service or who dies after separating but before

the travel, transportation, and moving is completed, to the

place where the family will reside) within the United States,

its territories or possessions, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
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or the areas and installations in the Republic of Panama made

available to the United States pursuant to the Panama Canal

Treaty of 1977 and related agreements, as described in section

3(a) of the Panama Canal Act of 1979, if such individual—

‘‘(A) during or after the five years preceding eligibility

to receive an annuity under subchapter III of chapter 83,

or of chapter 84 of this title, has been transferred in the

interest of the Government from one official station to

another for permanent duty as a career appointee in the

Senior Executive Service or as a director under section

4103(a)(8) of title 38 (as in effect on November 17, 1988);

and

‘‘(B) is eligible to receive an annuity upon such separation (or, in the case of death in service, met the requirements for being considered eligible to receive an annuity,

as of date of death) under the provisions of subchapter

III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of this title.’’.

SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.

(a) IN GENERAL.—This Act and the amendment made by this

Act shall take effect on October 1, 1994, or, if later, the date

of the enactment of this Act.

(b) SPECIAL RULE.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Under regulations prescribed by the

President or his designee, an agency shall, as appropriate,

pay or make reimbursement for any moving expenses which

would be payable under the provisions of section 5724(a)(3)

of title 5, United States Code, as amended by section 4 (but

which would not have been payable under such provisions,

as last in effect before being so amended).

(2) APPLICABILITY.—The moving expenses to which this

subsection applies are those incurred by the family of an

individual who died—

(i) before separating from Government service; and

(ii) during the period beginning on January 1, 1994,

and ending on the effective date of this Act.

(3) CONDITION.—Payment or reimbursement under this

subsection may not be made except upon appropriate written

application submitted within 12 months after the date on which

the regulations referred to in paragraph (1) take effect.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.