To allow Foreign Service and other executive agency employees to designate beneficiaries of their death benefits.

Bill: 113-hr-5206
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2014-07-25
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of State

Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-07-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to permit employees of the Foreign Service and other executive branch employees to designate beneficiaries of their death benefits. </p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5206 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 25, 2014 Mr. Grayson (for himself and Ms. Ros-Lehtinen ) introduced the following bill; which was 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 A BILL To allow Foreign Service and other executive agency employees to designate beneficiaries of their death benefits.

1. Revision to the administration of death gratuities for Foreign Service and other executive agency employees Section 413 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 3973 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a) by inserting designated beneficiaries or before surviving dependents ; (2) in subsection (b) by inserting designated beneficiaries or before survivors ; (3) in subsection (c) by striking survivors and beneficiaries and inserting designated beneficiaries then survivors ; (4) by striking subsection (d); and (5) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (d).