MEMORANDUM MAY 18, 1965. To: Hon. Wayne L. Hays, chairman, Subcommittee on State Department Organization and Foreign Operations. From: Albert C. F. Westphal, staff consultant. For your convenience, the Office of the Legislative Counsel has prepared this Ramseyer rule print pertinent to the proposed amendments to the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, including changes suggested by the Executive Branch shown in the Subcommittee Print of April 8, 1965. III RAMSEYER RULE PRINT OF FOREIGN SERVICE ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1965 CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE PRINT OF APRIL 8, 1965 Changes in existing law made by the Subcommittee Print of April 8, 1965, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman): FOREIGN SERVICE ACT OF 1946, AS AMENDED AN ACT To improve, strengthen, and expand the Foreign Service of the United TITLE I-SHORT TITLE, OBJECTIVES, AND PART A-SHORT TITLE SEC. 101. Titles I to X, inclusive, of this Act may be cited as the 'Foreign Service Act of 1946." PART B-OBJECTIVES SEC. 111. The Congress hereby declares that the objectives of this Act are to develop and strengthen the Foreign Service of the United States so as (1) to enable the Foreign Service effectively to serve at home and abroad the interests of the United States; (2) to insure that the officers and employees of the Foreign Service are broadly representative of the American people and are aware of and fully informed in respect to current trends in American life; (3) to enable the Foreign Service adequately to fulfill the functions devolving on it by reason of the transfer to the Department of State of functions heretofore performed by other Government agencies; (4) to provide improvements in the recruitment and training of the personnel of the Foreign Service; (5) to provide that promotions leading to positions of authority and responsibility shall be on the basis of merit and to insure the selection on an impartial basis of outstanding persons for such positions; (6) to provide for the temporary appointment or assignment to the Foreign Service of representative and outstanding citizens of the United States possessing special skills and abilities; (7) to provide salaries, allowances, and benefits that will permit the Foreign Service to draw its personnel from all walks of American life and to appoint persons to the highest positions in the Service solely on the basis of their demonstrated ability; (8) to provide a flexible and comprehensive framework for the direction of the Foreign Service in accordance with modern practices in public administration; and (9) to codify into one Act all provisions of law relating to the administration of the Foreign Service. PART C-DEFINITIONS SEC. 121. When used in this Act, the term— (1) "Service" means the Foreign Service of the United States; (2) "Secretary" means the Secretary of State; (3) "Department" means the Department of State; (4) "Government agency" means any executive department, board, bureau, commission, or other agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government, or any corporation wholly owned (either directly or through one or more corporations) by the United States; (5) "Government" means the Government of the United States of America; (6) "Continental United States" means the States and the District of Columbia; (7) "Abroad" means all areas not included in the continental United States as defined in paragraph (6) of this section; (8) "Principal officer" means the officer in charge of an embassy, legation, or other diplomatic mission or of a consulate general, consulate, or vice consulate of the United States; and (9) "Chief of mission" means a principal officer appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to be in charge of an embassy or legation or other diplomatic mission of the United States, or any person assigned under the terms of this Act to be minister resident, chargé d'affaires, commissioner, or diplomatic agent. * * * TITLE IV-CATEGORIES AND SALARIES OF PERSONNEL PART A-CATEGORIES OF PERSONNEL SEC. 401. The personnel of the Service shall consist of the following categories of officers and employees: (1) Chiefs of mission, who shall be appointed or assigned in accordance with the provisions of section 501; (2) Foreign Service officers, who shall be appointed in accordance with section 511, including those serving as chiefs of mission; [(3) Foreign Service Reserve officers, who shall be assigned to the Service on a temporary basis from Government agencies or appointed on a temporary basis from outside the Government in accordance with the provisions of section 522, in order to make available to the Service such specialized skills as may from time to time be required;] (3) Foreign Affairs officers, who shall be appointed under section 522(a); Foreign Service Reserve officers, who shall be appointed or assigned under section 522(b); (4) Foreign Service staff officers and employees, who shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 531 and who shall include all personnel who are citizens of the United States, not comprehended under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (6) of this section, and who shall occupy positions with technical, administrative, fiscal, clerical, or custodial responsibilities; (5) Alien clerks and employees, who shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 541; and (6) Consular agents, who shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 551. FOREIGN SERVICE STAFF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES SEC. 415. (a) There shall be ten classes of Foreign Service staff officers and employees, referred to hereafter as staff officers and employees. The per annum salaries of such staff officers and employees within each class shall be as follows: (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, classify positions at levels below class 10, and establish salary rates therefor at lower rates than those prescribed by this section, [for American employees recruited abroad who are not available or are not qualified for transfer to another post and who perform duties of a more routine nature than are generally performed at the class 10 evel] and he may, as appropriate, establish rates for wage board positions. * * * * PART C-SALARIES OF OFFICERS TEMPORARILY IN CHARGE AS CHARGÉS D'AFFAIRES AD INTERIM SEC. 421. For such time as [any Foreign Service officer] any officer of the Service shall be authorized to act as chargé d'affaires ad interim at the post to which he is assigned, he shall receive, in addition to his basic salary [as Foreign Service officer] as an officer of the Service, compensation equal to that portion of the difference between such salary and the basic salary provided for the chief of mission as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate. |