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 PUBLIC LAW 91-231-APR. 15, 1970

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Post,

p. 719.

22 USC 867, 870. Pay i n c r e a s e s by conversion.

Publication in Statutes at Large, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations. ASCS county committee employees. Legislative branch employees. 16 USC 590h note. 2 USC 60e-14 and note.

52 Stat. 3 1; n Stat. 633.

Exceptions.

J u d i c i a l branch employees.

Secretaries and law c l e r k s.

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approximately equal increments within any grade, level, or class of any such schedule, to 6 percent. (2) The schedules referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection are as follows: the General Schedule contained in section 5332(a) of title 5, United States Code; the Postal Field Service Schedule and the Rural Carrier Schedule contained in sections 3542(a) and 3543(a), respectively, of title 39, United States Code; the schedules relating to certain positions within the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration and contained in section 4107 of title 38, United States Code; and the Foreign Service schedules contained in sections 412 and 415 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946. (b) Rates of basic pay, basic compensation, and salaries of officers and employees paid under the schedules referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be increased initially under conversion rules prescribed by the President or by such agency as the President may designate. (c) The increases made by the President under this section shall have the force and effect of law and shall be printed in (1) the Statutes at Large in the same volume as public laws, (2) the Federal Register, and (3) the Code of Federal Regulations. SEC. 3. (a) The rates of pay of personnel subject to sections 210 and 214 of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (81 Stat. 633, 635; Public I ^ w 90-206), relating to Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee employees and to certain employees of the legislative branch of the Government, respectively, and any minimum or maximum rate, limitation, or allowance applicable to any such personnelj shall be adjusted, effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after December 27, 1969, by amounts which are identical, insofar as practicable, to the amounts of the adjustments under section 2 of this Act for corresponding rates of pay for employees subject to the General Schedule, by the following authorities— (1) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to individuals employed by the county committees established under section 590h(b) o f title l 6; (2) the President pro tempore of the Senate, with respect to the United States Senate; (3) the Finance Clerk of the House of Representatives, with respect to the United States House of Representatives; and (4) the Architect of the Capitol, with respect to the Office of the Architect of the Capitol. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to allow adjustments in the rates of pay of the following officers of the United States House of Representatives: Parliamentarian, Chaplain, Clerk, Sergeant at Arms, Doorkeeper, Postmaster, and the four Floor Assistants to the Minority whose position titles formerly were Minority Clerk, Minority Sergeant at Arms, Minority Doorkeeper, and Minority Postmaster. (b) Notwithstanding section 665 of title 31, the rates of pay of employees in and under the judicial branch of the Government, whose rates of pay are fixed by administrative action pursuant to law and are not otherwise adjusted under this section may be adjusted, effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after December 27, 1969, by amounts not to exceed the amounts of the adjustments under section 2(a) of this Act for corresponding rates of pay. The limitations fixed by law with respect to the aggregate salaries payable to secretaries and law clerks of circuit and district judges shall be adjusted, effective on the first day of the first pay

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