Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 2.djvu/647

 PUBLIC LAW 99-234—JAN. 2, 1986

99 STAT. 1757

ignated post of duty, or home or regular place of business, as the case may be, and to payments pursuant to subsection (a) of this section until that location is reached; or "(B) because of a personal emergency situation (such as serious illness, injury, or death of a member of the employee's family, or an emergency situation such as fire, flood, or act of God), may be allowed, with the approval of an appropriate official of the agency concerned, reimbursement for expenses of transportation to the employee's designated post of duty, or home or regular place of business, as the case may be, and payments pursuant to subsection (a) of this section until that location is reached. "(2)(A) Under regulations prescribed pursuant to section 5707 of this title, an employee who is described in subsection (a) of this section and who, with the approval of an appropriate official of the agency concerned, interrupts the travel assignment prior to its completion for a reason specified in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) of this subsection, may be allowed (subject to the limitation provided in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph)— "(i) reimbursement for expenses of transportation to the location where necessary medical services are provided or the emergency situation exists, "(ii) payments pursuant to subsection (a) of this section until that location is reached, and "(iii) such reimbursement and payments for return to such assignment. "(B) The reimbursement which an employee may be allowed pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall be the employee's actual costs of transportation to the location where necessary medical services are provided or the emergency exists, and return to Eissignment from such location, less the costs of transportation which the employee would have incurred had such travel begun and ended at the employee's designated post of duty, or home or regular place of business, as the case may be. The payments which an employee may be allowed pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall be based on the additional time (if any) which was required for the employee's transportation as a consequence of the transportation's having begun and ended at a location on the travel assignment (rather than at the employee's designated post of duty, or home or regular place of business, as the case may be). "(3) Subject to the limitations contained in regulations prescribed pursuant to section 5707 of this title, an employee who is described in subsection (a) of this section and who interrupts the travel assignment prior to its completion because of an incapacitating illness or injury which is not due to the employee's own misconduct is entitled to payments pursuant to subsection (a) of this section at the location where the interruption occurred.". (b) Section 5702 of such title is further amended by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (c). SEC. 103. (a) Subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 5706 the following new section: "§ 5706a. Subsistence and travel expenses for threatened law enforcement personnel "(a) Under regulations prescribed pursuant to section 5707 of this title, when the life of an employee who serves in a law enforcement.

Regulations. 5 USC 5707.

Transportation.

Regulations. 5 USC 5707.

Ante, p. 1756.

5 USC 5706a. Regulations. 5 USC 5707.

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