Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011

Summary

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 - Transfers statutory responsibility for performing actuarial duties related to the Department of State's retirement systems from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of State (Secretary). Authorizes Department and Foreign Service special agents to investigate: (1) illegal passport or visa issuance or use; (2) Department-related identity theft and document fraud; and (3) federal offenses committed in the special maritime and territorial jurisdictions (nonmilitary) of the United States. Includes Pakistan among the countries (Afghanistan and Iraq) for which the Secretary is not required to convene an Accountability Review Board in an instance of serious injury, loss of life, or significant property destruction related to a U.S. government mission. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide security enhancements at overseas schools; and (2) use Department uniformed guards to protect buildings and areas in the United States. Revises provisions regarding: (1) local guard contracts abroad; and (2) overseas procurement. Renames the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs as the Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science. Extends the U.S. reimbursement period with respect to seized commercial fishermen. Increases the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund maximum. Provides Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty employees with federal service parity of pay. Extends: (1) grant authority for Radio Free Asia; (2) the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; and (3) the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) personal services contractor program. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) increase the number of scientific, medicine, research, and academic educational and cultural exchange activities; (2) establish science and technology fellowship programs; and (3) establish international documentary exchange programs. Permits applicants for refugee admission to simultaneously pursue other forms of admission. Authorizes the refugee admission of certain separated or orphan children or children of refugee spouses. Revises requirements for adjustment of refugee status to permanent resident status. Eliminates the exception to the visa ineligibility of a person involved in child abduction based upon the child's location in a country that is party to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Exempts certain children, including certain siblings, who have been adopted in a foreign country from admissions vaccination documentation requirements. Authorizes the Secretary and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to hire additional Foreign Service members. Foreign Service Overseas Pay Equity Act of 2009 - Extends comparability pay adjustments on a phased-in schedule to (non-Senior) Foreign Service members assigned abroad. Treats such payments as basic pay. Revises provisions concerning the computation of the death gratuity payable to surviving dependents of Foreign Service employees who die from injuries sustained in the performance of duty abroad. Extends the Secretary's authority to recruit retired Foreign Service or Civil Service employees or members of the Response Readiness Corps as reemployed annuitants to serve in Pakistan, Iraq, or Afghanistan. Repeals the recertification requirement for Senior Foreign Service members. Authorizes the Secretary to establish: (1) exchange programs under which Department officers or employees and members of the Foreign Service may be temporarily assigned to a position with any foreign government or international entity that permits an employee to be assigned to the Department; and (2) a personal services pilot program for services in the United States or abroad. Authorizes the U.S. share of assessed contributions for each U.N. peacekeeping operation after 2010 at 27.5%. Establishes in the Treasury the Buying Power Maintenance, International Organizations account. Authorizes the readmission and participation of the United States in the Inter-Parlimentary Union. Limits specified assistance to governments of countries in default to the United States. Increases authority for foreign law enforcement training. Authorizes Millenium Challenge Compact extensions and concurrent Compacts. Authorizes the Inspector General of USAID to temporarily reemploy annuitants for positions in the Office of Inspector General in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Prohibits assistance to a country for production of agricultural commodities which would be available in surplus quantities on world markets and would adversely affect U.S. agricultural producers. Authorizes FY2010-FY2011 appropriations to carry out this Act.

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• Reported to Senate (text)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 23 September 2010

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• Reported to Senate (PDF)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 23 September 2010

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 23 September 2010

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 29 January 2010

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  Introduced in Senate · EN · 29 January 2010

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• Introduced in Senate

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