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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1723
To authorize the establishment of a program under which employees of
the Central Intelligence Agency may be offered separation pay to separate
from service voluntarily to avoid or minimize the need for involuntary
separations due to downsizing, reorganization, transfer of function, or
other similar action.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 20, 1993
Mr. GLICKMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
A BILL
To authorize the establishment of a program under which
employees of the Central Intelligence Agency may be
offered separation pay to separate from service volun-
tarily to avoid or minimize the need for involuntary sepa-
rations due to downsizing, reorganization, transfer of
function, or other similar action.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Central Intelligence
Agency Voluntary Separation Pay Act’’.
SEC. 2. SEPARATION PAY.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section—
(1) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of
Central Intelligence; and
(2) the term ‘‘employee’’ means an employee of
the Central Intelligence Agency, serving under an
appointment without time limitation, who has been
currently employed for a continuous period of at
least 12 months, except that such term does not in-
clude—
(A) a reemployed annuitant under sub-
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title
5, United States Code, or another retirement
system for employees of the Government; or
(B) an employee having a disability on the
basis of which such employee is or would be eli-
gible for disability retirement under any of the
retirement systems referred to in subparagraph
(A).
(b) ESTABLISHMENT
OF PROGRAM.—In order to
avoid or minimize the need for involuntary separations due
to downsizing, reorganization, transfer of function, or
other similar action, the Director may establish a program
under which employees may be offered separation pay to
separate from service voluntarily (whether by retirement
or resignation).
(c) LIMITATIONS.—Under this program, separation
pay may be offered only—
(1) with the prior approval of the Director; and
(2) to employees within such occupational
groups or geographic locations, or subject to such
other similar limitations or conditions, as the Direc-
tor may require.
(d) AMOUNT AND TREATMENT FOR OTHER PUR-
POSES.—Such separation pay—
(1) shall be paid in a lump sum;
(2) shall be equal to the lesser of—
(A) an amount equal to the amount the
employee would be entitled to receive under sec-
tion 5595(c) of title 5, United States Code, if
the employee were entitled to payment under
such section; or
(B) $25,000;
(3) shall not be a basis for payment, and shall
not be included in the computation, of any other
type of Government benefit; and
(4) shall not be taken into account for the pur-
pose of determining the amount of any severance
pay to which an individual may be entitled under
section 5595 of title 5, United States Code, based on
any other separation.
(e) TERMINATION.—No amount shall be payable
under this section based on any separation occurring after
September 30, 1997.
(f) REGULATIONS.—The Director shall prescribe
such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this
section.
(g) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—At the end of each
of the fiscal years 1993 through 1997, the Director shall
submit to the President and the Congress a report on the
effectiveness and costs of carrying out this section.
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