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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 6237 (Reported in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of th... · Sec. 1501

Sec. 1501. Period of overseas assignments for certain foreign service officers

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(a)of section 502 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 3982 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: In making assignments under paragraph (1), and in accordance with section 903, and, if applicable, section 503, the Secretary shall assure that a member of the Service may serve at a post for a period of not more than six consecutive years. . Section 702 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 4022 ) is amended by— redesignating subsection
(c)as subsection (d); and by inserting after subsection
(b)the following new subsection: The Secretary of State, with the assistance of other relevant officials, shall require all members of the Service who receive foreign language training in Arabic, Farsi, Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), Turkish, Korean, and Japanese by the institution or otherwise in accordance with subsection
(b)to serve three successive tours in positions in which the acquired language is both relevant and determined to be a benefit to the Department. In carrying out paragraph (1), at least one of the three successive tours referred to in such paragraph shall be an overseas deployment. The Secretary of State may waive the application of paragraph
(1)for medical or family hardship or in the interest of national security. The Secretary of State shall notify the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Relations of the Senate at the end of each fiscal year of any instances during the prior twelve months in which the waiver authority described in paragraph
(3)was invoked. .
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Period of overseas assignments for certain foreign service officers
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