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PUBLIC LAW 91-510-OCT. 26, 1970

OBSOLETE REFERENCES I N E X I S T I N G L A W TO BASIC P A Y RATES

SEC. 475. I n any case in which— (1) the rate of pay of any employee or position, or class of employees or positions, the pay for whom or for which is disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, or any maximum or minimum rate with respect to any such employee, position, or class, is referred to in or provided by statute or House resolution; and (2) the rate so referred to or provided is a basic rate with respect to which additional pay is provided by law; such statutory provision or resolution shall be deemed to refer, in lieu of such basic rate, to the per annum gross rate which an employee receiving such basic rate immediately prior to the effective date of this section would receive, without regard to such statutory provision or resolution, under section 474 of this Part on and after such date. SAVING PROVISION

SEC. 476. The provisions of this Part shall not be construed to— (1) limit or otherwise affect any authority for the making of any appointment to, or for fixing or adjusting the pay for, any position for which the pay is disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives; or (2) affect the continuity of employment of, or reduce the pay of, any employee whose pay is disbursed by the Clerk of the House. C H A N G E S I N E X I S T I N G L A W; RELATTJ) PROVISIONS

SEC. 477. (a) There are hereby repealed— (1) the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to increase clerk hire, and for other purposes", approved December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 831; Public Law 512, Seventy-eighth Congress; 2 U.S.C. (2) section 11(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1956 (2 U.S.C. 6 0 g - l); and (3) section 202(e) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 72a (e)). (b) All provisions of law inconsistent with any pi-ovision of this Part are hereby superseded to the extent of the inconsistency. (c)(1) This subsection is enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives subject to and with full recognition of the power of the House of Representatives to enact or change any Rule of the House at any time in its exercise of its constitutional right to determine the rules of its proceedings. (2) Clause 29(c) of Rule X I of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended to read as follows: "(c) Each employee on the professional staff, and each employee on the clerical staff, of each standing committee, is entitled to pay at a single per annum ^ross rate, to be fixed by the chairman, which does not exceed the highest rate of basic pay, as in effect from time to time, of the General Schedule of section 5332(a) of title 5, United States Code.". (d) Section 5533(c) of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(c)(1) Unless otherwise authorized by law and except as otherwise provided by paragraph (2) of this subsection, appropriated funds are not available for payment to an individual of pay from more than

Repeals, Clerk h i r e.

69 Stat. 5 0 9. Professional staff members. 60 Stat. 8 3 5.

Pay r a t e.

Ante, p. 198-1. Dual pay. 81 Stat. 637.,

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