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[CITE: 10USC1596]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                     CHAPTER 81--CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 1596. Foreign language proficiency: special pay for 
        proficiency beneficial for intelligence interests
        
    (a) The Secretary of Defense may pay special pay under this section 
to a civilian officer or employee of the Department of Defense who--
        (1) has been certified as being proficient in a foreign language 
    identified by the Secretary of Defense as being a language in which 
    proficiency by civilian personnel of the Department is important for 
    the effective collection, production, or dissemination of foreign 
    intelligence information; and
        (2) is serving in a position, or is subject to assignment to a 
    position, in which proficiency in that language facilitates 
    performance of officially assigned intelligence or intelligence-
    related duties.

    (b) The annual rate of special pay under subsection (a) shall be 
determined by the Secretary of Defense.
    (c) Special pay under this section may be paid in addition to any 
compensation authorized under section 1602 of this title for which an 
officer or employee is eligible.

(Added Pub. L. 101-193, title V, Sec. 501(a)(1), Nov. 30, 1989, 103 
Stat. 1707, Sec. 1592; renumbered Sec. 1596, Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, 
title XIV, Sec. 1484(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1715; amended Pub. L. 
104-201, div. A, title XVI, Sec. 1633(e)(2), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 
2752; Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title XI, Sec. 1131(b)], Oct. 
30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-317.)


                               Amendments

    2000--Pub. L. 106-398 substituted ``Foreign language proficiency: 
special pay for proficiency beneficial for intelligence interests'' for 
``Foreign language proficiency: special pay'' as section catchline.
    1996--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-201 substituted ``section 1602'' for 
``section 1604(b)''.
    1990--Pub. L. 101-510 renumbered the second section 1592 of this 
title as this section.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-201 effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 
1635 of Pub. L. 104-201, set out as a note under section 1593 of this 
title.


                             Effective Date

    Section 501(b) of Pub. L. 101-193 provided that: ``Section 1592 [now 
1596] of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall 
take effect on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or 
after the later of--
        ``(1) October 1, 1989, or
        ``(2) the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 30, 1989].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1596a of this title.
