Foreign Service Overseas Pay Equity Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-3202
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Families
Federal employees
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Pay equity
Salaries
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: 
Foreign Service Overseas Pay Equity Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to: (1) extend comparability pay adjustments to Foreign Service members assigned abroad; and (2) amend the death gratuity computation payable to surviving dependents of Foreign Service employees who die from injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad. 

action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Foreign Service Overseas Pay Equity Act of 2008 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to provide that Foreign Service officers designated class 1 or below stationed outside the continental United States and not in a non-foreign area receive locality-based comparability payments that would be paid to a member if his or her official duty station were in Washington, DC.
 
Phases in such adjustment pay.
 
Makes conforming amendments to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund and to the Foreign Service Pension System.
 
 (Sec. 3) Amends the death gratuity computation payable to surviving dependents of Foreign Service officers who die from injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad to provide for payments at level II of the Executive Schedule at the time of death, except that for employees compensated under local compensation plans the amount shall be equal to the greater of one year's salary at the time of death or one year's salary at the highest step of the highest grade on the local compensation plan from which the employee was being paid at the time of death. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 571.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Rept. 110-877, Part I.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Rept. 110-877, Part I.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Introduced in House