Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 1.djvu/828

 92 STAT. 774

2 USC 60a-l.

Reports to Senate Committee on Appropriations.

^ •^ ' Longevity compensation.

40 USC 851.

2 USC 60a-l.

PUBLIC LAW 95-391—SEPT. 30, 1978 may be, an employee who is receiving merit compensation and is transferred to another position in which he is compensated at the maximum annual salary shall be eligible to receive merit compensation while occupying such other position. (d)(1) The amount of merit compensation which may be paid to an employee (as authorized by the Secretary of the Senate or the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, as the case may be) shall not exceed an amount equal to ten percent of the maximum annual rate of compensation of the position occupied by such employee rounded to the next highest multiple contained in section 1(a) of the applicable Order of the President pro tempore of the Senate issued under authority of Section 4 of the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970. (2) The amount of merit compensation which may be paid to an employee, when added to his regular annual compensation and his longevity compensation, shall not exceed the maximum annual compensation which may be paid to Senate employees generally as prescribed by law or orders of the President pro tempore issued under authority of section 4 of the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970. (e) Within thirty days following the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper shall file reports with the Senate Committee on Appropriations detailing the use and implementation of the authority contained in this section. Such reports shall include the names of all employees receiving merit compensation under authority of this section at the end of the fiscal year, the positions occupied by them, and the date when each such employee first began to receive merit compensation. SEC. 110. (a) Subsection (a) and (b) of section 106 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1963 (2 U.S.C. 60]), are amended to read as follows: "SEC. 106. (a) This section shall apply to— "(1) each employee of the Senate whose compensation is paid from the appropriation for Salaries, Officers and Employees under the following headings: "(A) Office of the Secretary, including individuals employed under authority of section 244 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 74b); "(B) Office of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, except employees designated as 'special employees'; and "(C) Offices of the Secretaries for the Majority and the Minority; "(2) each employee of the Senate authorized by Senate resolution to be appointed by the Secretary of the Senate or the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, except employees designated as 'special employees'; and ''(3) each employee of the Capitol Guide Service established under section 441 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970. " (b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), an employee to whom this section applies shall be paid, during any period of continuous creditable service, additional annual compensation (hereinafter referred to as 'longevity compensation') at the rate of two times the multiple contained in section 1(a) of the applicable Order of the President pro tempore of the Senate issued under authority of section 4 of the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 for (A) "each year of creditable service performed for the first five years and (B) each two years of creditable service performed during the twenty-year period following the first five years.

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