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 PUBLIC LAW 89-301-OCT. 29, 1965

1120 Payments to survivors.

64 Stat. 395.

(g) If the officer or employee dies before the expiration of the period covered by payments of severance pay, the payments of severance pay with respect to such officer or employee shall be continued as if such officer or employee were living and shall be paid on a pay period basis to the survivor or survivors of such officer or employee in accordance with the first section of the Act of August 3, 1950 (5 U.S.C.61f). (h) Severance pay under this section shall not be a basis for payment, nor be included in the basis for computation, of any other type of Federal or District of Columbia Government benefits, and any period covered by severance pay shall not be regarded as a period of Federal or District of Columbia Government service or employment. AGRICULTURAL

52 Stat, 31; 78 Stat. 412. Ante,

p.

nil.

[79 STAT.

STABILIZATION

A N D CONSERVATION EMPLOYEES

COUNTY

COMMITTEE

SEC. 10. The rates of compensation of persons employed by the county committees established pursuant to section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) shall be increased by amounts equal, as nearly as may be practicable, to the increases provided by section 2(a) of this Act for corresponding rates of compensation. LEGISLATIVE B R A N C H

60 Stat. 217; 78 Stat. 413. 5 USC 9 3 1, 932. House employees.

70 Stat. 743; Ante, p. 840. Members of Congress, etc. 78 Stat. 415.

SEC. 11. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, 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 Pay Act of 1946, shall be paid additional compensation at the rate of 3.6 per centum of his gross rate of compensation (basic compensation plus additional compensation authorized by law). (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 and is not increased by reason of any other provision of this section, shall be increased by an amount which is equal to the amount of the increase provided by subsection (a) of this section; except that this section shall not apply to the compensation of student congressional interns authorized by H. Res. 416 of the Eightyninth Congress. (c) The rates of compensation of employees of the House of Representatives whose compensation is fixed by the House Employees Schedule under the House Employees Position Classification Act (78 Stat. 1079; Public Law 88-652; 2 U.S.C. 291-303) shall be increased by amounts equal, as nearly as may be practicable, to the increases provided by subsection (a) of this section; except, that this section shall not apply to the compensation of those employees whose compensation is fixed by the House Wage Schedule of such Act. (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). (e) Section BOlCa) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended (2 U.S.C. 31), is amended to read as follows: " (a) The compensation of Senators, Representatives in Congress, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico shall be at the rate of $30,000 per annum each. The compensation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be at the rate of $43,000 per annum. The compensation of the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of the Senate and the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives shall be at the rate of $35,000 per annum each."

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