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fication documents issued by such jurisdictions, in-
cluding criteria related to— 
(A) vital records security and procedures; 
(B) security paper and printing for birth 
certificates; 
(C) customer identification requirements; 
(D) issuance of birth certificates, including 
duplicates; 
(E) controlling access to birth certificate 
records to prevent identity fraud; 
(F) data element definitions to facilitate 
electronic exchange of birth and death registra-
tion information with the Department of State 
for purposes of issuing passports; and 
(G) routine matching of all birth and death 
records. 
(b) BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION AND ESTABLISH-
MENT OF TRAINING PROGRAM FOR PASSPORT ACCEPT-
ANCE AGENTS.— 
(1) BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of State shall establish a 
mandatory requirement for background investiga-
tions of passport acceptance agents.
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(2) 
ESTABLISHMENT
OF
TRAINING
PRO-
GRAM.—Not later than one year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary for 
Management of the Department of State, acting 
through the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the De-
partment, shall— 
(A) establish a comprehensive training pro-
gram for passport acceptance agents that in-
cludes instruction and training relating to iden-
tification document fraud detection, customer 
identification authentication, and the penalties 
for passport fraud by employees, agents, and 
passport applicants; 
(B) establish a database that records when 
passport acceptance agents complete such train-
ing; 
(C) require all newly appointed passport 
acceptance agents to complete such training be-
fore initial processing of passport applications; 
and 
(D) establish a training schedule so that 
all existing passport acceptance agents have 
completed such training no later than three 
years after the date of the establishment of the 
training program under this paragraph.
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(c) EXPANDED AUTHORITY OF SPECIAL AGENTS.— 
Section 203 of the Omnibus Diplomatic and Antiterrorism 
Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–399; 22 U.S.C. 4823) is 
amended— 
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘Special 
agent positions’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) Special agent po-
sitions’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(b) In connection with investigations of corruption, 
waste, fraud, and abuse by officers and employees of the 
United States Government, including the illegal sale of 
United States passports and visas and other United States 
criminal offenses, the Federal District Court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia shall have authority to issue warrants 
with respect to properties within the special maritime and 
territorial jurisdiction of the United States, as defined 
under section 7(9) of title 18, United States Code. Special 
agents under the direction of the Director of the Diplo-
matic Security Service shall have authority to execute such 
warrants.’’. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary, or to reprogram funds otherwise obtained
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through receipts from the issuance of passports and visas, 
to carry out this section. 
TITLE III—ORGANIZATION AND 
PERSONNEL OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF STATE 
SEC. 301. EDUCATION ALLOWANCES. 
Section 5924(4) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in the first sentence of subparagraph (A), 
by inserting ‘‘United States’’ after ‘‘nearest’’; 
(2) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) The travel expenses of dependents of 
an employee to and from a secondary or post- 
secondary educational institution, not to exceed 
one annual trip each way for each dependent, 
except that an allowance payment under sub-
paragraph (A) may not be made for a depend-
ent during the 12 months following the arrival 
of the dependent at the selected educational in-
stitution under authority contained in this sub-
paragraph.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph:
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‘‘(D) Allowances provided pursuant to sub-
paragraphs (A) and (B) may include, at the 
election of the employee, payment or reimburse-
ment of the costs incurred to store baggage for 
the employee’s dependent at or in the vicinity of 
the dependent’s school during the dependent’s 
annual trip between the school and the employ-
ee’s duty station, except that such payment or 
reimbursement may not exceed the cost that the 
Government would incur to transport the bag-
gage with the dependent in connection with the 
annual trip, and such payment or reimburse-
ment shall be in lieu of transportation of the 
baggage.’’. 
SEC. 302. OFFICIAL RESIDENCE EXPENSES. 
Section 5913 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(c) Funds made available under subsection (b) may 
be provided in advance to persons eligible to receive reim-
bursements.’’.
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SEC. 303. INCREASED LIMITS APPLICABLE TO POST DIF-
FERENTIALS 
AND 
DANGER 
PAY 
ALLOW-
ANCES. 
(a) REPEAL OF LIMITED-SCOPE EFFECTIVE DATE 
FOR PREVIOUS INCREASE.—Subsection (c) of section 591 
of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 2004 (division D of Public 
Law 108–199) is repealed. 
(b) POST DIFFERENTIALS.—Section 5925(a) of title 
5, United States Code, is amended in the third sentence 
by striking ‘‘25 percent of the rate of basic pay or, in the 
case of an employee of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development,’’. 
(c) DANGER PAY ALLOWANCES.—Section 5928 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘25 
percent of the basic pay of the employee or 35 percent 
of the basic pay of the employee in the case of an employee 
of the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment’’ both places that it appears and inserting ‘‘35 per-
cent of the basic pay of the employee’’. 
(d) CRITERIA.—The Secretary of State shall inform 
the appropriate congressional committees of the criteria 
to be used in determinations of appropriate adjustments 
in post differentials under section 5925(a) of title 5, 
United States Code, as amended by subsection (b), and