grade to any position within the Government which is open and for which he is qualified. Compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment continue to apply until changed through collective bargaining.

(H.R. 17070. Post Office and Civil Service)

PERSONNEL CEILING (LIMITATION REPEAL)

Public Law 91-47, approved July 22, 1969, the Second Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1969, section 503, amends section 201 of the Revenue and Expenditure Control Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-364) by repealing the limitation on the number of employees who may be appointed to positions in the executive branch of the Government. (H.R. 11400. Appropriations)

PERSONNEL CEILING

Public Law 91-167, approved December 26, 1969, amends section. 304 of title 44, United States Code, by increasing from 200 to 400 the maximum number of apprentices authorized to be employed at one time by the Government Printing Office.

(H.R. 9366. House Administration)

Public Law 91-204, approved March 5, 1970, section 206 of title II, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1970, bars the use of funds under this title for additional positions in the Washington area if the proportion of additional positions in the Washington area in relation to total new positions is allowed to exceed the proportion existing at the close of fiscal year 1966.

Public Law 91-380, dated August 18, 1970, the Office of Education Appropriation Act, 1971 (title II, sec. 208, contains identical provisions).

Public Law 91-667, approved January 11, 1971, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1971 (title II, sec. 206, contains identical provisions).

POSITION CLASSIFICATION

Public Law 91-216, approved March 17, 1970, directs the Civil Service Commission to prepare a comprehensive plan for the establishment of a coordinated system of job evaluation and ranking for civilian positions in the Executive Branch. The act further directs the Commission to establish a special group to carry out the function, and requires that the task be completed within 2 years after the date of enactment.

(H.R. 13008. Post Office and Civil Service)

RETIREMENT

Public Law 91-93, approved October 20, 1969, amends subchapter 83, title 5, United States Code, to improve the financing of the civil service retirement system, and to liberalize benefits.

Title I (civil service retirement financing) requires that (1) contribution rates of employees and their agencies be incerased from 61⁄2 to 7 percent of pay for employees generally, from 61⁄2 to 71⁄2 percent for congressional employees, and from 7%1⁄2 to 8 percent for Members of Congress, beginning in January 1970; (2) the Government fully finance future unfunded liabilities resulting from benefit liberalizations through direct appropriations to the fund in equal annual installments over a 30-year period; and (3) that the Secretary of the Treasury make an annual payment to the retirement fund to eventually cover the full amount of interest on the unfunded accrued liability and the full amount of annuity payments resulting from crediting military service toward civil service retirement.

Title II (civil service retirement benefits) contains the following provisions: (1) Reduces time used to determine average pay for annuity computation purposes from 5 to 3 years; (2) credits unused sick leave for annuity computation purposes (but not for determining either average pay or eligibility for retirement), allowing approximately 1 month's service credit for each 22 days of unused sick leave in computing an employee's annuity or that of his surviving spouse: (3) adds 1 percent to the actual change in Consumer Price Index in granting each cost-of-living annuity increase; (4) removes the 15-year limitation concerning the special computation for congressional employees, and grants the same benefit formula that applies to Members of Congress; (5) extends the remarriage provisions to certain surviving spouses whose marriages occur on or after July 18, 1966; (6) extends annuity protection to survivors of Federal employees by reducing the necessary service from 5 years to 18 months; and (7) increases survivor annuities of certain employees retiring on disability as well as the annuities of all surviving children now on the rolls and those who will receive an annuity in the future.

(H.R. 9825. Post Office and Civil Service)

RETIREMENT (CIA)

Public Law 91-185, approved December 30, 1969, amends the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964, as amended, to provide comparable benefits to those of the civil service retirement law as amended by Public Law 91-93.

(H.R. 14571. Armed Services)

Public Law 91-626, approved December 31, 1970, amends the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for Certain Employees, as amended to provide for (1) elimination of the requirement that a child receive more than one-half its support from a deceased parent in order to qualify for survivor annuity; (2) raising the maximum age for student-children from 21 to 22 and the nonschool interval from 4 to 5 months; (3) permitting an illegitimate child to share in a

lump-sum death payment; (4) reduction in annuity on account of service during which no deductions were made; (5) increasing the number of retirements authorized between July 1, 1969, and July 30, 1974, from 400 to 800; and (6) requiring the transfer of employee and agency contributions, plus interest from the Central Intelligence Agency retirement system to another Government retirement system when an employee transfers from the CIA retirement system to another, or the reverse when the transfer is from another Government retirement system to the CIA retirement system.

(S. 4571. Armed Services)

RETIREMENT (FOREIGN SERVICE)

Public Law 91-201, approved February 28, 1970, amends the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, to improve the financing and funding practices of the Foreign Service retirement and disability system and to authorize benefit improvements in the system comparable to those currently provided under the civil service retirement law as amended by Public Law 91-93.

(H.R. 14789. Foreign Affairs)

RETIREMENT (PANAMA CANAL)

Public Law 91-355, approved July 24, 1970, amends section 181 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code to provide survivor annuities to certain unremarried widows of recipients of cash relief benefits authorized by the Panama Canal Cash Relief Act. The act also ties future cost-ofliving benefits to the adjustment provisions covering civil service retirement annuities.

(H.R. 7517. Merchant Marine and Fisheries)

RETIREMENT (TAX WITHHOLDING)

Public Law 91-172, approved December 30, 1969, section 805(g) of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, amends section 3402 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to add a new subsection (o) to provide for withholding income tax, under certain conditions, on a voluntary basis from pensions and annuities, including annuities authorized under the civil service retirement law, applicable to payments made after December 31, 1970.

(H.R. 13270. Ways and Means)

RETIREMENT (SURVIVOR ANNUITIES)

Public Law 91-658, approved January 8, 1971, amends chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, to (1) provide survivor annuity protection to spouses of certain retired civil servants, who remarry after the designated spouse predeceases; (2) permit an unmarried retiree

who marries after retirement to elect a reduced annuity in order to provide a survivor annuity; (3) extend to widowers of deceased female employees the same benefits accorded widows of male employees; (4) provide for inclusion of certain periods of reemployed annuitants' service for purposes of recomputing the annuities of their spouses; and (5) allow service credit for periods of separation due to job-related injury or illness, during which time an employee is receiving benefits under the Federal employees' compensation program. Section 6 amends title 3, United States Code, to increase the allowance of former Presidents and their widows.

(S. 437. Post Office and Civil Service)

RETIREMENT (CREDITABLE SERVICE)

Public Law 91-630, approved December 31, 1970, repeals section 115 of the Social Security Amendments of 1954 to permit Federal employees whose service is covered by social security and who later become covered under the civil service retirement system to receive credit for the service covered by social security. If a deposit is not made for the service, to the civil service retirement fund, the annuity will be reduced by 10 percent of the unpaid deposit.

(S. 2984. Ways and Means)

RETIREMENT AND RELATED BENEFITS

Public Law 91-510, approved October 26, 1970, section 441 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, establishes a Capitol Guide Service which shall be under the direction, supervision, and control of the Capital Guide Board consisting of the Architect of the Capitol, the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives and Sergeant at Arms of the Senate. Section 442 amends sections 2107 and 8332(b) of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the status of employees of the Capitol Guide Service as congressional employees and to provide coverage for such employees under the civil service retirement program and the Federal life insurance and health benefits programs. Section 442 grants retirement credit under certain conditions for service performed as a U.S. Capitol guide on or after February 19, 1929, providing an appropriate contribution is paid into the retirement fund.

(H.R. 17654. Rules)

Public Law 91-599, approved December 30, 1970, chapter 5, provides that the Executive Directors and Directors and their alternates, representing the United States in the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank, shall in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be eligible on the basis of such service and the total compensation received therefor for all employee benefits afforded civil service employees in the United States. The act provides that the Treasury Department shall serve as employing office for collecting, accounting

for, and depositing in the civil service retirement and disability fund, employees life insurance fund and health benefits fund. The effective date is December 14, 1966.

(H.R. 18306. Banking and Currency)

Public Law 91-647, approved January 5, 1971, amends section 332, title 28, United States Code, to improve the administration of justice in the Federal appellate courts by providing for the appointment of a circuit court executive for each judicial circuit. The act provides that circuit executives and their staffs are considered Federal employees for purposes of civil service retirement, and Federal employees' life insurance and health benefits programs.

(H.R. 17901. Judiciary)

SUPERGRADE POSITIONS

Public Law 91-187, approved December 30, 1969, amends section 5108, title 5, United States Code, to increase the number of positions which may be placed in grades GS-16, GS-17, and GS-18 as follows: Increases from 2,577 to 2,727 the number of positions which the Civil Service Commission may place in grades GS-16, GS-17, and GS-18; increases from 28 to 44 the number of such positions for the Library of Congress; increases from 64 to 90 the number of such positions for the General Accounting Office; and increases from 110 to 140 the number of such positions for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The law also removes the quota restrictions on the number of top-level engineering and scientific positions in the National Security Agency.

(S. 2325. Post Office and Civil Service)

Public Law 91-206, approved March 10, 1970, amends the Federal Credit Union Act to provide for an independent Federal agency for the supervision of federally chartered credit unions. Section 5 amends section 5108(a) of title 5, United States Code, to increase the number of positions which may be placed in grades GS-16, GS-17, and GS-18 from 2,727 to 2,734.

(H.R. 2. Banking and Currency)

Public Law 91-596, approved December 29, 1970, section 30 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, amends section 5108 (c) of title 5, United States Code, to authorize 35 additional positions in grades GS-16, GS-17, and GS-18-25 to the Department of Labor and 10 to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. (S. 2193, Education and Labor)

Public Law 91-644, approved January 2, 1971, section 11 of the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970, amends section 5108(c) of title 5, United States Code, to authorize the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to place a total of 20 positions in grades GS-16, GS-17, and GS-18.

(H.R. 17825. Judiciary)