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 90 STAT. 2458

PUBLIC LAW 94-520—OCT. 17, 1976

Public Law 94-520 94th Congress An Act Oct. 17, 1976 [S. 2923]

U.S. Magistrates, full-time. Compensation.

28 USC 633.

To amend title 28 of the United States Code to provide that full-time United States magistrates shall receive the same compensation as full-time referees in bankruptcy and to adjust the salary of part-time magistrates.

Be it enacted iy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 634(a) of title 28 of the United States Code is amended by changing the first sentence of said subsection to read as follows: "(a) Officers appointed under this chapter shall receive as full compensation for their services salaries to be fixed by the conference pursuant to section 633 of this title, at rates for full-time and parttime United States magistrates not to exceed the rates now or hereafter provided for full-time and part-time referees in bankruptcy, respectively, referred to in section 40a of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U.S.C. 68(a)), as amended, except that the salary of a part-time United States magistrate shall not be less than $100 nor more than one-half the maximum salary payable to a full-time magistrate.". SEC. 2. Section 631 of title 28 of the United States Code is amended— (1) in the first sentence of subsection (a), by inserting "and the district court of the Virgin Islands" immediately after "United States district court"; (2) by inserting immediately after the first sentence of subsection (a) the following: "In the case of a magistrate appointed by the district court of the Virgin Islands, this chapter shall apply as though the court appointing such magistrate were a United States district court."; and (3) in subsection (b)(1)(B), by inserting immediately before the semicolon the following: ", and in the Virgin Islands of the United States, a member in good standing of the bar of the district court of the Virgin Islands". Approved October 17, 1976.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1607 (Coram, on the Judiciary). SENATE REPORT No. 94-624 (Coram, on the Judiciary). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): Feb. 5, considered and passed Senate. Sept. 29, considered and passed House, amended. Sept. 30, Senate concurred in House amendraent.

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