82 Stat. 811. (e) to accord Foreign Service information officers the 82 Stat. 810. same rights and perquisites and to subject them to the same stringent judgment of performance as Foreign Service officers employed under the provisions of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. AUTHORITY OF THE DIRECTOR SEC. 4. Foreign Service information officers shall be under the direction and authority of the Director of the Agency. Authority available to the Secretary of State with respect to Foreign Service officers shall be available on the same basis to the Director of the Agency with respect to Foreign Service information officers, except as provided in section 11 of this Act. POLICIES AND REGULATIONS 60 Stat. 999. 22 USC 801 note. systems. SEC. 5. The Foreign Service information officer personnel Personnel system shall be compatible with the Foreign Service officer personnel system. Toward this end, the Director with respect to the Foreign Service information officer personnel system and the Secretary of State with respect to the Foreign Service officer personnel system, after consultation with such officials as the President may determine, shall promulgate policies and regulations governing such systems. Both systems shall be administered, to the extent practicable, in conformity with general policies and regulations of the Federal Government issued in accordance with law. APPOINTMENT AND ASSIGNMENT SEC. 6. (a) Subject to section 4, Foreign Service information officers shall be appointed and assigned at classes and salaries, and in accordance with requirements and procedures, which correspond to those classes, salaries, requirements, and procedures, except with regard to career ambassadors, prescribed by sections 412, 413, 421, 422, 431 (c), 432, 441, 500, 501 (b), 502(b), 511, 514 through 520, 571 through 575, and 578 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. (b) The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint Career Ministers for Information. 60 Stat. 1003. Information. fied officers. (c) The Secretary of State may, upon request of the Director, furnish the President with the names of Foreign Service information officers qualified for appointment to the class of Career Minister for Information, together with pertinent information about such officers, but no person shall be appointed into the class of Career Minister for Information who has not been appointed to serve in an Embassy as a Minister for Public Affairs or appointed or assigned to serve in a position which, in the opinion of the Director, is of comparable importance. A list of such positions shall from time to time be published Position lists, by the Director. (d) The per annum salary of a Career Minister for Information shall be the same as that provided by section 412 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, for the class of Career Minister. 78 Stat. 411; 81 Stat. 632. 22 USC 867. 74 Stat. 834. 22 USC 991-996. 82 Stat. 811. 82 Stat. 812. 22 USC 10011007. 22 USC 10611121. 74 Stat. 844. 22 USC 1092. Mandatory retirement. Voluntary retirement. 74 Stat. 839. 840; 79 Stat. 1131. 22 USC 1076. Effective dates. PROMOTION SEC. 7. Foreign Service information officers shall be promoted in accordance with the provisions of sections 621 through 623, and 626 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, and shall receive within-class salary increases in accordance with section 625 of such Act. SEPARATION AND RETIREMENT SEC. 8. Foreign Service information officers shall be separated and retired in accordance with sections 631 through 637 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. PARTICIPATION IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DIS- SEC. 9. (a) Foreign Service information officers shall be participants in and entitled to the benefits of the Foreign Service retirement and disability system under title VIII of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, on the same basis as Foreign Service officers. Any such Foreign Service information officer who becomes a participant in such system shall make contributions to the Foreign Service retirement and disability fund on the same basis as Foreign Service officers. (b) In accordance with such regulations as the President may prescribe, any Foreign Service Staff officer or employee appointed by the Agency who has completed at least ten years of continuous service, exclusive of military service, in the Foreign Service of the Agency shall become a participant in the Foreign Service retirement and disability system and shall make a special contribution to the Foreign Service retirement and disability fund in accordance with the provisions of section 852 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. (c) Any such officer or employee who, under the provisions of paragraph (b) of this section, becomes a participant in the Foreign Service retirement and disability system, shall be mandatorily retired for age during the third year after the effective date of that paragraph if he attains age sixty-four or if he is over age sixty-four; during the fourth year at age sixty-three; during the fifth year at age sixty-two; during the sixth year at age sixty-one, and thereafter at age sixty. (d) Any officer or employee who becomes a participant in the Foreign Service retirement and disability system under the provisions of paragraph (b) of this section who is age fifty-seven or over on the effective date of that paragraph, may retire voluntarily at any time before mandatory retirement under paragraph (c) of this section and receive retirement benefits under section 821 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. (e) The provisions of paragraph (b) of this section becomes effective on the first day of the first month which begins more than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, except that any Foreign Service Staff officer or employee, who at the time this Act become effective meets the requirements for par ticipation in the Foreign Service retirement and disability system, may elect to become a participant in the system before the mandatory provisions become effective. Such Foreign Service Staff officers and employees shall become participants effective on the first day of the second month following the date of their application for earlier participation. OTHER APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF LAW SEC. 10. All other provisions of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, or of any other law, which apply to Foreign Service officers and are not referred to above, shall be applicable to Foreign Service information officers. 60 Stat. 999. note. 22 USC 801 82 Stat. 812. COMMISSIONING AND ASSIGNMENT AS DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR 82 Stat. 813. OFFICERS SEC. 11. (a) The Secretary of State may, upon request of the Director, recommend to the President that Foreign Service information officers be commissioned as diplomatic or consular officers, or both, in accordance with section 512 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. (b) The Secretary of State may, upon request of the Director, assign Foreign Service information officers, commissioned as diplomatic or consular officers, to serve under such commissions in accordance with sections 512 and 514 of the Foreign Service 60 Stat. 1007. Act of 1946, as amended. INTERPRETATION AND CONSTRUCTION SEC. 12. For the purposes of this Act the term "Foreign Service officer" when used in the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, or in any other provision of law shall be construed to mean "Foreign Service information officer" and the term "Secretary of State" when used with respect to authorities applicable to Foreign Service officers shall be construed to mean the Director of the United States Information Agency with respect to Foreign Service information officers. TRANSFER OF AGENCY FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS TO FOREIGN SERVICE INFORMATION OFFICER STATUS SEC. 13. Agency Foreign Service officers on active service on the effective date of this Act shall, by virtue of this Act, be transferred from the class in which they are serving on such date to the comparable salaries and classes of Foreign Service information officers established by this Act. Service in the former class shall be considered as constituting service in the new class for the purposes of determining (1) eligibility for promotion, in accordance with the provisions of section 622, (2) liability for separation, in accordance with the provisions of section 633, (3) continuation of probationary status pursuant to section 635, and (4) credit for time served toward in-class promotion in accordance with section 625. 80 Stat. 422. 80 Stat. 410; 81 Stat. 196. 82 Stat. 813. 82 Stat. 814. 60 Stat. 1009. 22 USC 922, 927. 74 Stat. 844, 845. 22 USC 1092. 69 Stat. 25. 22 USC 1003, 1004. 82 Stat. 814. VETERANS' PREFERENCE SEC. 14. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3320 of title 5 of the United States Code, the fact that any applicant is a veteran or disabled veteran, as defined in section 2108 (1) or (2) of such title, shall be taken into consideration as an affirmative factor in the selection of applicants for initial appointment as Foreign Service officers or Foreign Service information officers. TENURE OF FOREIGN SERVICE RESERVE OFFICERS Sec. 15. (a) Any officer appointed as a Foreign Service Reserve officer after the date of enactment of this Act may serve as such for not more than five years. During such period (no sooner than the expiration of the third year but no later than the expiration of the fifth year) such Foreign Reserve officer shall be appointed as a Foreign Service officer, Foreign Service Information Officer, Foreign Service Reserve officer with unlimited tenure, Foreign Service Staff officer, or shall be terminated as a Foreign Service Reserve officer. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 522 and 527 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, an appointment of any Foreign Service Reserve officer existing on the date of enactment of this Act may be extended, but not beyond the expiration of the five-year period beginning on such date of enactment. RETIREMENT AND SEPARATION OF FOREIGN SERVICE RESERVE OFFICERS Sec. 16. (a) In accordance with such regulations as the President may prescribe, any Foreign Service Reserve officer with unlimited tenure shall become a participant in the Foreign Service retirement and disability system and shall make a special contribution to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund in accordance with the provisions of section 852 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended. Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, any Reserve officer referred to in the preceding sentence shall be mandatorily retired for age in accordance with the provisions of subsections (c) and (d) of section 9 of this Act. (b) The provisions of sections 633 and 634 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, shall apply to Foreign Service Reserve officers with unlimited tenure. PRESENT FOREIGN SERVICE RESERVE OFFICERS SEC. 17. Any Foreign Service Reserve officer appointed before the date of enactment of this Act who has completed at least three years of continuous and satisfactory service as such on such date of enactment, or who will have completed at least three years of such service before the expiration of the threeyear period beginning on such date of enactment, may be appointed as a Foreign Service Reserve officer with unlimited tenure. LIMITATION ON EXTENSION OF FOREIGN SERVICE RESERVE 22 USC 922. SEC. 18. Paragraph (3) of section 522 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof the following: "; ex- 73 Stat. 257. cept that the authority contained in this paragraph relating to extending the appointment of any Reserve officer, and to continuing the services of any such Reserve officer by appointment, shall not be applicable to the Department of State and the United States Information Agency". EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN AGENCIES SEC. 19. The provisions of sections 15, 16, and 17 of this Act shall not apply to officers and employees of the Agency for International Development, the Peace Corps, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 31. PROVISION FOR A WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON AGING (To Make Recommendations and Plan Action for Specified Purposes Including Training and Research) (Public Law 90-526, approved September 28, 1968) A. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY On October 18, 1967, Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., of New Jersey (for himself and 19 other Senators) introduced S. J. Res. 117, to provide for a White House Conference on Aging. The joint resolution was referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Hearings on the joint resolution were held before the Special Subcommittee on Aging of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on March 5 and 6, 1968. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 315 pages. S. J. Res. 117 passed the Senate on May 6, 1968. On June 27, 1968, Representative Dominick V. Daniels, of New Jersey (for himself and 24 other Members of the House) introduced a similar proposal, H. J. Res. 1371, to provide for a White House Conference on Aging. The joint resolution was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor. Hearings on the joint resolution were held before the Select Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor on June 18, 1968. The record of the hearings was printed in a volume of 34 pages. On July 25, 1968, H.J. Res. 1371 was reported from the Committee on Education and Labor (H. Rept. 1792). On July 30, 1968 the joint resolution passed the House. On September 9, 1968 it passed the Senate, amended. On September 12, 1968 the House agreed to the Senate amendments. The joint resolution was approved by the President on September 28, 1968 and became Public Law 90-526. |