Volume 60 · 4
Public Law 79–3
To amend section 2 (b) of the Act entitled “An Act extending the classified executive civil service of the United States”, approved November 26, 1940, so as to provide for counting military service of certain employees of the legislative branch in determining the eligibility of such employees for civil-service status under such Act.
Approved February 12, 1946
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 2 (b) of the Act entitled “An Act extending the classified executive civil service of the United States”, approved November 26, 1940, so as to provide for counting military service of certain employees of the legislative branch in determining the eligibility of such employees for civil-service status under such Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (b) of section 2
Civil service.
Status of certain legislative employees.
of the Act entitled “An Act extending the classified executive civil service of the United States”, approved November 26, 1940 (54 Stat. 1212; U. S. C., title 5, sec. 631 (b)), is amended by adding at the end of such subsection
a new sentence as follows: “In the case of an individual who shall have held such a position in the legislative branch for at least two years and who shall have been separated from such position for the purpose of entering the military or naval service, such individual shall be deemed, for the purposes of this subsection, to have held such position during the period within which he shall have served in the military or naval forces.”
Approved February 12, 1946.