§ 297. — Appointments and reclassifications to higher compensation levels.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC297]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 10--CLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 297. Appointments and reclassifications to higher
compensation levels
(a) Each employee in a compensation level of the House Employees
Schedule (HS), who is appointed to a position in a higher compensation
level of such schedule, or whose position is placed in a higher
compensation level of such schedule pursuant to a reclassification of
such position, shall be paid compensation in such higher compensation
level, in accordance with the following provisions, whichever is first
applicable in the following numerical order of precedence:
(1) at the rate of the lowest step for which the rate of
compensation equals the rate of compensation for that step, in the
compensation level from which he is appointed, which is two steps
above the step in such level which he had attained immediately prior
to such appointment;
(2) at the rate of the lowest step for which the rate of
compensation exceeds, by not less than two steps of the compensation
level from which he is appointed, his rate of compensation
immediately prior to such appointment; or
(3) at the rate of the highest step of such higher compensation
level, or at his rate of compensation immediately prior to such
appointment, whichever rate is the higher.
(b) The committee may provide by regulations for the payment of
compensation, at an appropriate compensation step determined in
accordance with such regulations, to each employee subject to the House
Wage Schedule (HWS) who is appointed to a position in a higher
compensation level of such schedule or whose position is placed in a
higher compensation level of such schedule pursuant to a
reclassification of such position.
(Pub. L. 88-652, Sec. 8, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1082.)
