Department of State Crisis Response Act of 2007

Department of State Crisis Response Act of 2007 - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to extend Department of State authority to employ civil service or Foreign Service annuitants through October 1, 2010.

Eliminates the requirement that such authority be used to facilitate assignment to Afghanistan or Iraq or to fill positions vacated because of assignments to such countries.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2960 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2960

  To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 and the 
   Foreign Service Act of 1980 to enable the Department of State to 
 respond to a critical shortage of passport processing personnel, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2007

Mr. Capuano (for himself, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Hinojosa, Mr. Poe, Mr. Al 
Green of Texas, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Gonzalez, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson 
of Texas, Ms. Berkley, Mr. Cuellar, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. McNerney, and 
Mr. Welch of Vermont) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                  to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 and the 
   Foreign Service Act of 1980 to enable the Department of State to 
 respond to a critical shortage of passport processing personnel, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of State Crisis Response 
Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. REEMPLOYMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE ANNUITANTS.

    Section 61(a) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 
(22 U.S.C. 2733(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``To facilitate'' and all 
        that follows through ``, the Secretary'' and inserting ``The 
        Secretary''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``2008'' and inserting 
        ``2010''.

SEC. 3. REEMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN SERVICE ANNUITANTS.

    Section 824(g) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 
4064(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``the assignment of 
        persons to Iraq and Afghanistan or to posts vacated by members 
        of the Service assigned to Iraq and Afghanistan, if the 
        annuitant is employed'' and inserting ``the employment of an 
        annuitant''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``2008'' and inserting 
        ``2010''.
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