PUBLIC LAW 95-391—SEPT. 30, 1978 "(2) The amount of longevity compensation which may be paid to an employee, when added to his regular annual 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. ' " (3) For purposes of this section— "(A) creditable service includes (i) service performed as an employee described in subsection (a), (ii) service performed as a member of the Capitol Police or as an employee of the United States Capitol Telephone Exchange while compensation therefor is disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and (iii) service which is creditable for purposes of this section as in effect on the last day of the month in which the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1979, is enacted; "(B) in computing length of continuous creditable service, only creditable service performed subsequent to August 31, 1957, shall be taken into account, except that, in the case of service as an employee employed undei" authority of section 244 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, only creditable service performed subsequent to January 2, 1971, shall be taken into account; and "(C) continuity of creditable service shall not be deemed to be broken by separations from service of not more than thirty days, by the performance of service as an employee (other than an employee subject to the provisions of this section) whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, or by the performance of active military service in the armed forces of the United States, but periods of such separations and service shall not be creditable service. "(4) Longevity compensation shall be payable on and after the first day of the first month following completion of each period of creditable service upon which such compensation is based.". (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the first day of the first month which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. The gross compensation of employees entitled to longevity compensation on such first day under section 106 of the legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1963, shall be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of such section as amended by subsection (a). No increase in compensation by reason of such amendment shall take effect for any pay period beginning before such first day, and.no monetary benefit by reason of such amendment shall accrue for any period before such first day.
92 STAT. 775
2 USC 60a-l.
2 USC 74b.
Effective date, 2 USC 60j note, Ante, p. 774.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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COMPENSATION AND MILEAGE FOR THE
MEMBERS
COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS
For compensation of Members, as authorized by law (wherever used "Member, herein the term "Member" shall include Members of the House of Representatives, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, the Delegate from the District of Columbia, the Delegate from Guam, and the Delegate from the Virgin Islands), $27,699,300.
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