§ 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.)