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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

§ 3964. Assignments to salary class

Statutory text

(a)

The Secretary shall assign all Foreign Service officers and Foreign Service personnel (other than Foreign Service personnel who are paid in accordance with section 3967 of this title or section 3968 of this title) to appropriate salary classes in the Foreign Service Schedule.

(b)
(1)

The salary class to which a member of the Service is assigned under this section shall not be affected by the assignment of the member to a position classified under subchapter V.

(2)

Except as authorized by subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 5, changes in the salary class of a member of the Senior Foreign Service or a member of the Service assigned to a salary class in the Foreign Service Schedule shall be made only in accordance with subchapter VI. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations (which shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of subchapter VI of chapter 53 of title 5 and with the regulations prescribed to carry out such provisions) providing for retention of pay by members of the Service in cases in which reduction-in-force procedures are applied.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 96–465 title I § 404 · 94 Stat. 2071

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3964

    Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 404, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2088

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 404, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2088

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 404. Assignment to a Salary Class.— (a) The Secretary shall assign all Foreign Service officers and Foreign Service personnel (other than Foreign Service personnel who are paid in accordance with section 407 or who are family members of Government employees paid in accordance with a local compensation plan established under section 408) to appropriate salary classes in the Foreign Service Schedule. (b) (1) The salary class to which a member of the Service is assigned under this section shall not be affected by the assignment of the Post, p. 2092. member to a position classified under chapter 5. (2) Except as authorized by subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 5, 5 USC 3501. United States Code, changes in the salary class of a member of the Senior Foreign Service or a member of the Service assigned to a salary class in the Foreign Service Schedule shall be made only in Post, p. 2094. accordance with chapter 6. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations (which shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of subchapter 5 USC 5361. VI of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, and with the regulations prescribed to carry out such provisions) providing for retention of pay by members of the Service in cases in which reduction-in-force procedures are applied.

  2. Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995

    Pub. L. 103–236 title I § 180(a)(3) · 108 Stat. 382

    Struck · 22 U.S.C. § 3964(a)

    Pub. L. 103–236 struck out “who are family members of Government employees paid in accordance with a local compensation plan established under” after “section 3967 of this title or”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–236 struck out “who are family members of Government employees paid in accordance with a local compensation plan established under” after “section 3967 of this title or”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (3) Section 404(a) of such Act is amended by striking “who 22 USC 3964. are family members of Government employees paid in accordance with a local compensation plan established under”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–236 struck out “who are family members of Government employees paid in accordance with a local compensation plan established under” after “section 3967 of this title or”.

Credits

1980–1994 · 2 acts
  1. 1980Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 404, , 94 Stat. 2088
  2. 1994Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 180(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 415.
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(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 404, , 94 Stat. 2088; Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 180(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 415.)

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