Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 1.djvu/842

 96 STAT. 800

PUBLIC LAW 97-253—SEPT. 8, 1982 SUBTITLE B—LIMITATION ON TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES FOR VACATION LEAVE

5 USC 5728 note.

Effective date. 5 USC 5728 note.

"Employee." 5 USC 5728 note.

SEC. 351. (a) Section 5728 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting a comma and "Alaska, and Hawaii" after "continental United States" each place it occurs in subsections (a) and db). (b) Such section is further amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and (2) by inserting after subsection G)) the following new subsection: "(c)(1) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, an agency may pay, subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, the expenses described in paragraph (2) of this subsection in any case in which the head of the agency determines that the payment of such expenses is necessary for the purpose of recruiting or retaining an employee for service of a tour of duty at a post of duty in Alaska or Hawaii. "(2) The expenses payable under paragraph (1) of this subsection are the expenses of round-trip travel of an employee, and the transportation of his immediate family, but not household goods, from his post of duty in Alaska or Hawaii to the place of his actual residence at the time of appointment or trsinsfer to the post of duty, incurred after he has satisfactorily completed an agreed period of service in Alaska or Hawaii and in returning to his actual place of residence to take leave before serving another tour of duty at the same or another post of duty in Alaska or Hawaii under a new written agreement made before departing from the post of duty. "(3) The payment of expenses of any employee and the transportation of his family under paragraph (1) of this subsection is limited to the expenses of travel and transportation incurred for not more than two round trips commenced within 5 years after the date the employee first commences any period of consecutive tours of duty in Alaska or Hawaii.". (c) Notwithstanding section 5728(c)(3) of title 5, United States Code (as added by subsection (b)(2) of this section), the agency shall pay under section 5728(c)(l) of such title (as added by subsection (b)(2) of this section) the expenses of one round-trip of travel of an employee who has served on consecutive tours of duty at posts of duty in Alaska or Hawaii for a period beginning at least five years before the date of enactment of this Act and including such date and the expenses of transportation of such employee's immediate family on one round-trip. (d) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect with respect to expenses incurred after the date of enactment of this Act for round-trip travel (commenced after such date) of an employee or transportation of his immediate family from his post of duty to the place of his actual residence at the time of appointment or transfer to the post of duty. (e) For the purposes of subsections (c) and (d), the term "employee" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 5721(2) of title 5, United States Code.

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