112 STAT. 2424 PUBLIC LAW 105-274—OCT. 21, 1998 (1) in determining the rate of accrual of annual leave under section 6303 of title 5, United States Code, be entitled to credit for service as an employee of the District of Columbia; (2) to the extent that the employee has not used or otherwise been compensated for annual leave accrued as an employee of the District of Columbia, have all such accrued annual leave transferred, in accordance with the procedures established under section 6308 of title 5, United States Code, to the credit of the employee in the new emplo3ring agency; and (3) to the extent the employee has not used or otherwise been compensated for sick leave accrued as an employee of the District of Columbia, have all such accrued sick leave transferred, in accordance with the procedures established under section 6308 of title 5, United States Code, to the credit of the employee in the new employing agency, (b) TERMINATION.—Subsection (a) is not applicable to any former employee of the District of Columbia who is hired by the Department of Justice or the Agency more than one year after the date on which the Lorton Correctional Complex is closed, or more than one year after the date on which the Agency assumes its duties, whichever is later. SEC. 6. CLARIFICATION OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO PRIORITY CONSIDERATION FOR SEPARATED EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF CORREC- TIONS. (a) IN GENERAL.-^ection 11203(b) of the Balanced Budget Act 111 Stat. 738. of 1997 (D.C. Code, sec. 24-1203(b)) is amended by amending the second sentence to read as follows: 'The priority consideration program shall also include provisions under which an employee described in subsection (a) who has not been appointed to a Federal Bureau of Prisons law enforcement position and who applies for anotiier Federal position in the competitive service shall receive priority consideration and may be given a competitive service appointment noncompetitively to such a competitive service position.". (b) RELOCATION ALLOWANCE.— Section 11203(b) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 24 -1203(b)) is amended by inserting after the second sentence the following: "The Director of the Bureau of Prisons may provide a relocation sdlowance to any individual who is hired by the Director under the program established under this section for a position outside of the Wasning^n MetropoUtan Area.". (c) EFFECTIVE DATE; TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS GIVEN PRIORITY PRIOR TO ENACTMENT.—(1) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of tiiis Act. (2) Individuals who have been appointed with excepted service appointments under section 11203(b) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 prior to the date of the enactment of this Act shall be convertea noncompetitively to competitive service appointments in their current positions. SEC. 6. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO DISTRICT OF COLUMRIA COURTS. (a) AUTHORITY OP JOINT COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL ADMINISTRA- TION TO EXCLUDE TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES FROM FERS.— Section 8402(c) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
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