Us Code § 5761 - Foreign language proficiency pay awards for the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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§ 5761. Foreign language proficiency pay awards for the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may, under regulations prescribed by the Director, pay a cash award of up to 10 percent of basic pay to any Bureau employee who maintains proficiency in a language or languages critical to the mission or who uses one or more foreign languages in the performance of official duties.

(Added Pub. L. 111–117, div. B, title II, §219(a), Dec. 16, 2009, 123 Stat. 3141.)

CHAPTER 59—ALLOWANCES

SUBCHAPTER I—UNIFORMS

Sec.
5901.
Uniform allowances.
5902.
Increase in maximum uniform allowance.
5903.
Regulations.

        

SUBCHAPTER II—QUARTERS

5911.
Quarters and facilities; employees in the United States.
5912.
Quarters in Government owned or rented buildings; employees in foreign countries.
5913.
Official residence expenses.

        

SUBCHAPTER III—OVERSEAS DIFFERENTIALS AND ALLOWANCES

5921.
Definitions.
5922.
General provisions.
5923.
Quarters allowances.
5924.
Cost-of-living allowances.
5925.
Post differentials.
5926.
Compensatory time off at certain posts in foreign areas.
5927.
Advances of pay.
5928.
Danger pay allowance.

        

SUBCHAPTER IV—MISCELLANEOUS ALLOWANCES

5941.
Allowances based on living costs and conditions of environment; employees stationed outside continental United States or in Alaska.
5942.
Allowance based on duty at remote worksites.
5942a.
Separate maintenance allowance for duty at Johnston Island.
5943.
Foreign currency appreciation allowances.
[5944.
Repealed.]
5945.
Notary public commission expenses.
5946.
Membership fees; expenses of attendance at meetings; limitations.
5947.
Quarters, subsistence, and allowances for employees of the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, engaged in floating plant operations.
5948.
Physicians comparability allowances.
5949.
Hostile fire pay.

        

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2001—Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title XI, §1111(b), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1238, added item 5949.

1991—Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title X, §1092(a)(2), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1487, added item 5942a.

1983—Pub. L. 98–164, title I, §127(b)(2), Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1027, struck out item 5944 "Illness and burial expenses; native employees in foreign countries".

1980—Pub. L. 96–465, title II, §§2310(b), 2311(b), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2166, added items 5927 and 5928.

1978—Pub. L. 95–603, §2(b), Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 3020, added item 5948.

Pub. L. 95–426, title IV, §411(b), Oct. 7, 1978, 92 Stat. 981, added item 5926.

1971—Pub. L. 91–656, §§6(c), 7(b), Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1954, substituted "duty at remote worksites" for "duty on California offshore islands or at Nevada Test Site" in item 5942 and added item 5947.

1967—Pub. L. 90–83, §1(40)(B), (42), Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 206, 207, added items 5902 and 5903, and inserted "or at Nevada Test Site" in item 5942.

SUBCHAPTER I—UNIFORMS

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