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PUBLIC LAW 88-426-AUG. 14, 1964

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departments, agencies, establishments, and corporations in such manner and to such extent as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget deems appropriate in the light of their essential functions. (b) Pursuant to the objective of this section, heads of the executive branch activities concerned are directed to review with meticulous care each vacancy resulting from voluntary resignation, retirement, or death and to determine whether the duties of the position can be reassigned to other employees or whether the position can be abolished without seriously affecting the execution of essential functions. (c) Nothing contained in subsection (a) of this section shall be held or considered to require (1) the separation from the service of any individual by reduction in force or other personnel action or (2) the placing of any individual in a leave-without-pay status. TITLE

P o s i t i o n vacanc i e s, review.

II—FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE SALARIES

SEC. 201. This title may be cited as the "Federal Legislative Salary,. ^«f»«;^i ^:t^}^\^
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SEC. 202. (a) Each officer or employee in or under the legislative branch of the Government whose rate of compensation is increased by section 5 of the Federal Employees P a y Act of 1946 shall be paid 5°us*c*93^/'93 additional compensation in an amount equal to the greater of the following amounts, as applicable: (1) an amount equal to 3i/^ per centum of his gross rate of compensation (basic compensation plus additional compensation authorized by law) in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this section plus 1 per centum of such gross rate for each whole multiple, or part of a multiple, of $500 basic compensation; or (2) an amount equal to 5 per centum of such gross rate. (b) The total annual compensation in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this section of each officer or employee of the House of Representatives, whose compensation is disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives and is not increased by reason of any other provision of this title, shall be increased by an amount which is equal to the amount of the increase provided by subsection (a) of this section in that gross rate which is nearest in amount to the total annual compensation of such officer or employee. (c) Each of the limitations on gross rate per thousand and gross rate per hour per person provided by applicable law on the effective date of this section with respect to the folding of speeches and pamphlets for the House of Representatives shall be increased by 7 per centum. The amount of each increase under this subsection shall be computed to the nearest cent, counting one-half cent and over as a whole cent. (d) The additional compensation provided by this section shall be considered a part of basic compensation for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2251 and the following). re^stal.^ 869^^' (e) The basic compensation of each employee in the office of a Senator is hereby adjusted, effective on the first day of the month following the date of enactment of this Act, to the lowest multiple of $60 which will provide a gross rate of compensation not less than the gross rate such employee was receiving immediately prior thereto, except that the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply in the case of any employee if on or before the fifteenth day following the date of enactment of this Act, the Senator by whom such employee is employed notifies the disbursing office of the Senate in writing that he does not wish such provisions to apply to such employee. No employee whose basic compensation is adjusted under this sub-

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