A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide certain benefits for Government employees and similarly situated individuals who are captured, kidnapped, or otherwise deprived of their liberty as a result of hostile action directed against the United States and for other purposes.

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Amends Federal provisions relating to payments to Federal employees who are missing while in active Federal service as a result of hostile action taken against the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a savings fund to which the pay and allowances of an individual in a captive status may be allotted. Directs the following payments to be made to individuals held in captive status (or, where appropriate to their beneficiaries): (1) medical and health care expenses incident to the employee's captive status; (2) direct cash payments made by the President to individuals who either were or are in a captive status as of November 4, 1979; (3) certain benefits provided by the Soldiers' and Sailors' Relief Act of 1940; (4) payments to the spouse or child of a captive for expenses incurred while attending an educational or training institution; and (5) payments to an individual for educational and training expenses which were incurred for a certain period after the termination of the individual's captive status. Directs the President to prescribe regulations under which disability or death compensation may be paid by an agency head to an employee or family member of such employee if the death or disability was caused by hostile action directed against the United States. Provides that leave will not be charged to the account of an alien employee while serving abroad for absence due to injuries incurred as a result of hostile action directed against the United States.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 April 1985

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