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 PUBLIC LAW 103-296—AUG. 15, 1994 108 STAT. 1473 (ii) the functions of any other agency for which administrative responsibility was vested in the Social Security Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services as of immediately before the date of the enactmient of this Act. (B) RULES GOVERNING CONTINUATION OF FUNCTIONS IN THE ADMINISTRATION.— The Social Security Administration shall perform, on behalf of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (or the head of any other agency, as applicable), the functions described in subparagraph (A) in accordance with the same financial and other terms in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, except to the extent that the Commissioner and the Secretary (or other agency head, as applicable) agree to alter such terms pertaining to any such function or to terminate the performance by the Social Security Administration of any such function, (b) PERSONNEL, ASSETS, ETC. — (1) IN GENERAL.— There are transferred from the Department of Hegdth and Human Services to the Social Security Administration, for appropriate allocation by the Commissioner of Social Security in the Social Security Administration— (A) the personnel employed in connection with the functions transferred by this title and the amendments made thereby; and (B) the assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, or used in connection with such functions, arising from such functions, or available, or to be made available, in connection with such functions. (2) UNEXPENDED FUNDS. —Unexpended funds transferred pursuant to this subsection shall be used only for the purposes for which the funds were originally appropriated. (3) EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS. — (A) IN GENERAL.— During the 1-year period beginning March 31, 1995— (i) the trsmsfer pursuant to this section of any full-time personnel (except special Government employ- ees) and part-time personnel holding permanent positions shall not cause any such personnel to be separated or reduced in grade or compensation solely as a result of such transfer, and (ii) except as provided in subparagraph (B), any such personnel who were not employed in the Social Security Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services immediately before the date of the enactment of this Act shall not be subject to directed reassignment to a duty station outside their commuting area. (B) SPECIAL RULES.— (i) In the case of personnel whose duty station is in the Washington, District of Columbia, commuting area immediately before March 31, 1995, subparagraph (A)(ii) shall not apply with respect to directed reassignment to a duty station in the Baltimore, Maryland, commuting area after September 30, 1995.

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