---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5706a"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5706a"
heading: "Subsistence and travel expenses for threatened law enforcement personnel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5706a"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 57 — Travel, Transportation, and Subsistence"
  - "Subchapter I — Travel and Subsistence Expenses; Mileage Allowances"
---

# §5706a. Subsistence and travel expenses for threatened law enforcement personnel

- (a) Under regulations prescribed pursuant to [section 5707 of this title](/usc/5/5707.md), when the life of an [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) who serves in a law enforcement, investigative, or similar capacity, or [members](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) of such [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s immediate family, is threatened as a result of the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s assigned duties, the head of the [agency](/usc/5/5701.md?p=1) concerned may approve appropriate [subsistence](/usc/5/5701.md?p=3) payments for the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) or [members](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) of the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s family (or both) while occupying temporary living accommodations at or away from the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s designated post of duty.
- (b) When a situation described in [subsection (a)](#a) of this section requires the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) or [members](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) of the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s family (or both) to be temporarily relocated away from the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s designated post of duty, the head of the [agency](/usc/5/5701.md?p=1) concerned may approve transportation expenses to and from such alternate location.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–234, title I, § 103(a), Jan. 2, 1986, 99 Stat. 1757.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective (1) on effective date of regulations to be promulgated not later than 150 days after Jan. 2, 1986, or (2) 180 days after Jan. 2, 1986, whichever occurs first, see section 301(a) of Pub. L. 99–234, set out as an Effective Date of 1986 Amendment note under section 5701 of this title.