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PUBLIC LAW 303-MAR. 6, 1954 C H A P T E R 59

AN ACT To amend title VI of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended, with respect to the retirement of employees in the Legislative Branch.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Title VI of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEC. 603. (a) Section 4 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " ' (g) Any officer or employee in the legislative branch of the Government within the classes of officers and employees made eligible for the benefits of this Act by the Act of July 13, 1937, the Act of June 21, 1947, or the Act of July 23, 1953, who is separated from service on or after the date of enactment of this subsection after having rendered at least five years of service as such an officer or employee and after having become entitled to an immediate or future annuity under this Act shall, if he so elects at the time of commencement of such annuity, be paid, in lieu of an annuity computed under subsection (a), a life annuity equal to the sum of the following: " ' (A) 2% per centum of the average salary, pay, or compensation received by him during any five consecutive years of allowable service at his option multiplied by the sum of the years, not exceeding fifteen, of his service as an employee described in this subsection and of his allowable military or naval service; and " ' (B) 11/^ per centum of such average salary, pay, or compensation multiplied by the years of his allowable service other than service used in computing annuity under clause (A). I n no case shall an annuity computed under this suDsection exceed an amount equal to 80 per centum of the highest average annual salary, pay, or compensation received by the officer or employee during any five consecutive years of allowable service. No officer or employee shall be entitled to the benefits of this subsection unless (i) there shall have been deducted and withheld from his salary, pay, or compensation for the last five years of his allowable civilian service, or there shall have been deposited under section 9 with respect to such last five years of service, the amounts specified in section 9, and (ii) the last eleven months of his allowable civilian service shall have been performed as an employee described in this subsection. Service performed prior to the date of enactment of this subsection shall not be counted for the purposes of this subsection in the case of any person not serving as an officer or employee described in this subsection on such date unless such person performs at least eleven months of service as such an officer or employee subsequent to such date. Paragraphs (A) and (B) hereof shall also apply in the case of any person who was heretofore or is hereafter separated from the service with title to annuity and who hereafter serves as a Member of Congress.' "(b) Section 3(a) of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: " 'Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any officer or employee in the legislative branch of the Government within the classes of officers or employees which were made eligible for the benefits of this Act by the Act of July 13, 1937, the Act of June 21, 1947, or the Act of July 23, 1953, serving in such position on the date of enactment of this paragraph, may give notice of his desire to come within the purview of this Act at any time prior to the expiration of six months after such date of enactment.'

March 6. 1954 [S.2175]

Legislative Branch. Retirement bene» fits. 60 Stat. 850. 46 Stat. 468; 6a Stat. 476. 5 USC 698. Coitqjutation.

50 Stat. 512; 6][ Stat. 135; 67 Stat. 186. 5 USC 6 9 3 b693d, 698b, 71Sd, 719a, 693.

Restrictions.

5 USC 736b.

Later service as M e m b e r of Congress.

5 USC 693(a). Notice.

5 USC 6 9 3b693d, 698b. 715d, 719a, 693.

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