12 2 STA T .346PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 1 8 1 —J A N .28 , 2008 SEC.1 1 03 . TRAN S PO RTAT I ONO FD EPENDENTS ,H O U SEHO L D EFFECTS, AND PERSONAL PROPERT Y TO FOR M ER HOME FOL - LO W IN G DEATH OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEE WHERE DEATH RESULTED FROM DISEASE OR IN J URY INCURRED IN THE CENTRAL COMMAND AREA OF RESPONSI B ILITY. (a)INGE NE RAL.—P a r a g ra ph ( 2 ) ofsecti o n574 2( b )oftit l e5 ,U nite dS tates C ode, is a m ended to read as follo w s
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‘(2) the e x pense of transporting his dependents, incl u ding expenses of pac k ing, crating, dra y ing, and transporting house - hold effects and other personal property to his former home or such other place as is determined by the head of the agency concerned, if— ‘‘( A ) the employee died while performing official duties outside the continental United States or in transit thereto or therefrom
or ‘‘( B ) in the case of an employee who was a party to a mandatory mobility agreement that was in effect when the employee died— ‘‘(i) the employee died in the circumstances described in subparagraph (A); or ‘‘(ii)(I) the employee died as a result of disease or in j ury incurred while performing official duties— ‘‘(aa) in an o v erseas location that, at the time such employee was performing such official duties, was within the area of responsibility of the Com- mander of the United States Central Command; and ‘‘(bb) in direct support of or directly related to a military operation, including a contingency operation (as defined in section 10 1(1 3 ) of title 10) or an operation in response to an emergency declared by the President; and ‘‘(II) the employee ’ s dependents were residing either outside the continental United States or within the continental United States when the employee died; and’’. (b) EF FE CTIV E D ATE.— T he amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to deaths occurring on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 110 4 . SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR CI V ILIAN EMPLOYEES ASSIGNED ON DEPLOYMENT TEMPORARY CHANGE OF STATION. (a) A U T HO RIT Y .—Subchapter II of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 5737 the fol- lowing: ‘ ‘ §573 7 a.Employe e st empo r ar i ly d eployed i nc ontin g ency operations ‘‘(a) DEFINITION S .— F or purposes of this section— ‘‘(1) the term ‘covered employee’ means an individual who— ‘‘(A) is an employee of an Executive agency or a military department, excluding a Government controlled corpora- tion; and ‘‘(B) is assigned on a temporary change of station in support of a contingency operation; ‘‘(2) the term ‘temporary change of station’, as used with respect to an employee, means an assignment—
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