§ 3972. Special differentials

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. 1980

   Pub. L. 96–465 title I § 412 · 94 Stat. 2071

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3972

   Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 412, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2092

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 412, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2092

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 412. Special Differentials.— (a) The Secretary may pay special differentials, in addition to compensation otherwise authorized, to Foreign Service officers who are required because of the nature of their assignments to perform additional work on a regular basis in substantial excess of normal requirements. (b) Before implementing any proposal to limit either the number of Foreign Service officers who may receive a special differential under subsection (a) or the amounts of such special differentials, the Secretary shall submit such proposal to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. (c) Nothing in this Act, or in subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, shall preclude the granting of compensatory time off for Foreign Service officers.

2. 1994

   Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995

   Pub. L. 103–236 title I § 139(6) · 108 Stat. 382

   Struck · 22 U.S.C. § 3972(b)

   Pub. L. 103–236 struck out subsec. (b) which read as follows: “Before implementing any proposal to limit either the number of Foreign Service officers who may receive a special differential under subsection (a) of this section or the amounts of such special differentials, the Secretary shall submit such proposal to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–236 struck out subsec. (b) which read as follows: “Before implementing any proposal to limit either the number of Foreign Service officers who may receive a special differential under subsection (a) of this section or the amounts of such special differentials, the Secretary shall submit such proposal to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (6) Section 412(b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3972(b)), relating to special differentials for Foreign Service officers.

3. 2016

   Department of State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017

   Pub. L. 114–323 title II § 206 · 130 Stat. 1905

   Added · 22 U.S.C. § 3972(b)

   Pub. L. 114–323 added subsec. (b)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–323 added subsec. (b).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 206. INSPECTOR GENERAL SALARY LIMITATIONS.   Section 412 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3972) is amended by inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection: “(b) The Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) shall limit the payment of special differentials to USAID Foreign Service criminal investigators to levels at which the aggregate of basic pay and special differential for any pay period would equal, for such criminal investigators, the bi-weekly pay limitations on premium pay regularly placed on other criminal investigators within the Federal law enforcement community. Effective date. This provision shall be retroactive to January 1, 2013.” .

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