US Congress Senate Bill 1493 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on August 2 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-08-02 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Pending: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Foreign Service Line of Duty Death Gratuity Act of 2011 - Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to provide increased group life insurance benefits for a Foreign Service or government executive branch employee killed in a location designated as a danger pay post. Directs the Secretary of State to provide a specified death gratuity payment to the surviving dependents of a Foreign Service or a government executive branch employee serving at a U.S. diplomatic or consular mission abroad without a regular salary who was killed in the August 7, 1998, bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Authorizes appropriations for such payments.

Foreign Service Line of Duty Death Gratuity Act of 2011

Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]
Sen. Herb Kohl [D-WI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-08-02	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

HB2881 (Related) 2011-10-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy .

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1493/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1493/BILLS-112s1493is.pdf