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§ 296. —  Step increases; waiting periods; service in Armed Forces; automatic advancement.



[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC296]

 
                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
   CHAPTER 10--CLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 
Sec. 296. Step increases; waiting periods; service in Armed 
        Forces; automatic advancement
        
    (a) Each employee in a compensation level of the House Employees 
Schedule (HS), who has not attained the highest schedule rate of 
compensation for the compensation level (HS level) in which his position 
is placed, shall be advanced successively to the next higher step of 
such HS level, as follows:
        (1) to steps 2, 3, and 4, respectively--at the beginning of the 
    first pay period following the completion, without break in service 
    of more than thirty months, of one year of satisfactory service in 
    the next lower step;
        (2) to steps 5, 6, and 7, respectively--at the beginning of the 
    first pay period following the completion, without break in service 
    of more than thirty months, of two years of satisfactory service in 
    the next lower step;
        (3) to steps 8, 9, and 10, respectively--at the beginning of the 
    first pay period following the completion, without break in service 
    of more than thirty months, of three years of satisfactory service 
    in the next lower step; and
        (4) to steps 11 and 12, respectively--at the beginning of the 
    first pay period following the completion, without break in service 
    of more than thirty months, of five years of satisfactory service in 
    the next lower step.

    (b) The receipt of an increase in compensation during any of the 
waiting periods of service specified in subsection (a) of this section 
shall cause a new full waiting period of service to commence for further 
step increases under such subsection.
    (c) Any increase in compensation granted by law, or granted by 
reason of an increase made by the committee in the rates of compensation 
of the House Employees Schedule, to employees within the purview of 
subsection (a) of this section shall not be held or considered to be an 
increase in compensation for the purposes of subsection (b) of this 
section.
    (d) The benefit of successive step increases under subsection (a) of 
this section shall be preserved, under regulations prescribed by the 
committee, for employees whose continuous service is interrupted by 
service in the Armed Forces of the United States.
    (e) The committee shall establish and maintain, and, from time to 
time, may revise, a system of automatic advancement, by successive step 
increases in compensation, on the basis of satisfactory service 
performed, without break in service of more than thirty months, for 
employees subject to the House Wage Schedule (HWS). In the operation of 
such system of step increases the committee may prescribe regulations to 
the effect that--
        (1) the receipt of an increase in compensation during any of the 
    waiting periods of service required for advancement by step 
    increases under such system shall cause a new full waiting period of 
    service to commence for further step increases under such system;
        (2) any increase in compensation granted by law, or granted by 
    reason of an increase made by the committee in the rates of 
    compensation of the House Wage Schedule, to employees within the 
    purview of such system of step increases shall not be held or 
    considered to be an increase in compensation for the purposes of 
    subparagraph (1) of this subsection; and
        (3) the benefit of successive step increases under such system 
    of step increases shall be preserved, under regulations prescribed 
    by the committee, for employees whose continuous service is 
    interrupted by service in the Armed Forces of the United States.

(Pub. L. 88-652, Sec. 7, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1081.)



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