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 FED-
ERAL 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 MEM-
BERS 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 transpor-
tation expenses of the immediate family of such individual,
and the expenses of moving (including transporting, packing,
crating, temporarily storing, draying, and unpacking) the house-
hold 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 separa-
tion (or, in the case of death in service, met the require-
ments 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.