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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 6796
To extend the provisions of the Foreign Service Families Act to the
intelligence community, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER14, 2023
Mr. C
ASTROof Texas (for himself and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the
Workforce
A BILL
To extend the provisions of the Foreign Service Families
Act to the intelligence community, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Intelligence Commu-4
nity Families Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. IN-STATE TUITION RATES FOR CERTAIN MEMBERS 6
OF INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 135(d) of the Higher 8
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1015d(d)), as amended 9
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by section 6206(a)(4) of the Foreign Service Families Act 1
of 2021 (Public Law 117–81), is further amended— 2
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or’’ after the 3
semicolon; 4
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at 5
the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 6
(3) by adding at the end the following new 7
paragraph: 8
‘‘(3) an officer or employee of an element of the 9
intelligence community (as such term is defined in 10
section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 11
U.S.C. 3003)) who serves in a position of employ-12
ment in such element for a period of more than 30 13
days.’’. 14
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 15
subsection (a) shall take effect at each public institution 16
of higher education in a State that receives assistance 17
under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 18
et seq.) for the first period of enrollment at such institu-19
tion that begins after July 1, 2024. 20
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