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22 U.S.C. § 3975 — Group life insurance supplement applicable to those killed in terrorist attacks
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**(a) Foreign Service employees**
(1) **In general** — Notwithstanding the amounts specified in chapter 87 of title 5, a Foreign Service employee who dies as a result of injuries sustained while on duty abroad because of an act of terrorism, as defined in [section 2656f(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2656f/d&num=0&edition=prelim), shall be eligible for a special payment of $400,000, which shall be in addition to any employer provided life insurance policy coverage. In the case of an employee compensated under a local compensation plan established under [section 3968 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3968&num=0&edition=prelim), the amount of such payment shall be determined by regulations implemented by the Secretary of State and shall be no greater than $400,000. The group life insurance supplement employee benefit paid or scheduled to be paid pursuant to this section should not be used to reduce any other payment to which a recipient is otherwise eligible under Federal law.
(2) **Designation of beneficiary** — A payment made under paragraph (1) shall be made in accordance with the guidance issued under [section 3973(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3973/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Other executive agencies** The head of an executive agency shall provide the additional payment authorized by this section, consistent with the provisions set forth in subsection (a), with respect to any employee of that agency or of an individual in a special category serving in an uncompensated capacity for that agency who dies as a result of injuries sustained while on duty abroad because of an act of terr
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**(a) Foreign Service employees**
(1) **In general** — Notwithstanding the amounts specified in chapter 87 of title 5, a Foreign Service employee who dies as a result of injuries sustained while on duty abroad because of an act of terrorism, as defined in [section 2656f(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2656f/d&num=0&edition=prelim), shall be eligible for a special payment of $400,000, which shall be in addition to any employer provided life insurance policy coverage. In the case of an employee compensated under a local compensation plan established under [section 3968 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3968&num=0&edition=prelim), the amount of such payment shall be determined by regulations implemented by the Secretary of State and shall be no greater than $400,000. The group life insurance supplement employee benefit paid or scheduled to be paid pursuant to this section should not be used to reduce any other payment to which a recipient is otherwise eligible under Federal law.
(2) **Designation of beneficiary** — A payment made under paragraph (1) shall be made in accordance with the guidance issued under [section 3973(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3973/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Other executive agencies** The head of an executive agency shall provide the additional payment authorized by this section, consistent with the provisions set forth in subsection (a), with respect to any employee of that agency or of an individual in a special category serving in an uncompensated capacity for that agency who dies as a result of injuries sustained while on duty abroad because of an act of terrorism, as defined in [section 2656f(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2656f/d&num=0&edition=prelim), while subject to the authority of the chief of mission pursuant to [section 3927 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3927&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Criteria; amount; payment deemed gift** The Secretary may provide for payment of a gratuity to the surviving dependents of any Foreign Service employee, who dies as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad, in an amount equal to one year’s salary at level II of the Executive Schedule under [section 5313 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5313&num=0&edition=prelim) at the time of death, except that for employees compensated under local compensation plans established under [section 3968 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3968&num=0&edition=prelim) the amount shall be equal to the greater of either one year’s salary at the time of death, or one year’s basic salary at the highest step of the highest grade on the local compensation plan from which the employee was being paid at the time of death. Any death gratuity payment made under this section shall be held to have been a gift and shall be in addition to any other benefit payable from any source.
**(b) Other executive agencies** The head of an executive agency shall, pursuant to guidance issued under subsection (c), make a death gratuity payment authorized by this section to the survivors of any employee of that agency or of an individual in a special category serving in an uncompensated capacity for that agency, as identified in guidance issued under subsection (c), who dies as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad while subject to the authority of the chief of mission pursuant to [section 3927 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3927&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Guidance** Not later than 60 days after
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**(a) Duties** Under the direction of the President, the chief of mission to a foreign country—
(1) shall have full responsibility for the direction, coordination, and supervision of all Government executive branch employees in that country (except for Voice of America correspondents on official assignment and employees under the command of a United States area military commander); and
(2) shall keep fully and currently informed with respect to all activities and operations of the Government within that country, and shall insure that all Government executive branch employees in that country (except for Voice of America correspondents on official assignment and employees under the command of a United States area military commander) comply fully with all applicable directives of the chief of mission.
**(b) Duties of agencies with employees in foreign countries** Any executive branch agency having employees in a foreign country shall keep the chief of mission to that country fully and currently informed with respect to all activities and operations of its employees in that country, and shall insure that all of its employees in that country (except for Voice of America correspondents on official assignment and employees under the command of a United States area military commander) comply fully with all applicable directives of the chief of mission.
**(c) Promotion of United States goods and services** Each chief of mission to a foreign country shall have as a principal duty the promotion of United States goods and services for export to such country.
**(d) Promotion of United States economic interests** Each chief of mission to a foreign country shall have as a principal duty the promotion of United States economic and commercial interests in such country.
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**(a) Establishment; rates of pay; leaves of absence; supplemental payments; transfer from Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund**
(1) The Secretary shall establish compensation (including position classification) plans for foreign national employees of the Service and United States citizens employed under [section 3951(c)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3951/c/1&num=0&edition=prelim). To the extent consistent with the public interest, each compensation plan shall be based upon prevailing wage rates and compensation practices (including participation in local social security plans) for corresponding types of positions in the locality of employment, except that such compensation plans shall provide for payment of wages to United States citizens at a rate which is no less than the then applicable minimum wage rate specified in [section 206(a)(1) of title 29](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section206/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim). Any compensation plan established under this section may include provision for (A) leaves of absence with pay for employees in accordance with prevailing law and employment practices in the locality of employment without regard to any limitation contained in [section 6310 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section6310&num=0&edition=prelim), (B) programs for voluntary transfers of such leave and voluntary leave banks, which shall, to the extent practicable, be established in a manner consistent with the provisions of subchapters III and IV, respectively, of chapter 63 of title 5, and (C) payments by the Government and employees to (i) a trust or other fund in a financial institution in order to financ
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 3974
(d) Eligibility to elect monthly compensation as
condition to payment
A death gratuity payment shall be made under
this section only if the survivor entitled to pay-
ment under subsection (c) is entitled to elect
monthly compensation under section 8133 of
title 5, because the death resulted from an in-
jury (excluding a disease proximately caused by
the employment) sustained in the performance
of duty, without regard to whether such sur-
vivor elects to waive compensation under such
section 8133.
(e) Definitions
As used in this section—
(1) the term ‘‘Foreign Service employee’’
means any member of the Service or United
States representative to an international or-
ganization or commission; and
(2) each of the terms ‘‘widow’’, ‘‘widower’’,
‘‘child’’, and ‘‘parent’’ shall have the same
meaning given each such term by section 8101
of title 5.
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 413, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat.
2092; Pub. L. 113–76, div. K, title VII, § 7082(a),
Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 565.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–76, § 7082(a)(1), sub-
stituted ‘‘at level II of the Executive Schedule under
section 5313 of title 5, United States Code, at the time
of death, except that for employees compensated under
local compensation plans established under section 3968
of this title the amount shall be equal to the greater of
either one year’s salary at the time of death, or one
year’s basic salary at the highest step of the highest
grade on the local compensation plan from which the
employee was being paid at the time of death’’ for ‘‘at
the time of death’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–76, § 7082(a)(2), (3), added sub-
sec. (b) and redesignated former subsec. (b) as (d).
Former
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