Volume 62 · 5
Public Law 80–16
To amend the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, as amended.
Approved January 26, 1948
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 101 (b) of the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946, as amended, is amended by inserting after the word “employees,” the following: “who shall be entitled to accumulate annual leave to the maximum of ninety work days exclusive of the time actually and necessarily occupied in going to and from the continental United States and such time as may be necessarily occupied in awaiting sailing or flight,”.
Sec. 2.
Subsection (c) of section 101 of such Act, as amended, is amended by inserting after the words “Commonwealth of the Philippines” the following: “(or the Republic of the Philippines)”.
Sec. 3.
Subsection (a) of section 106 of such Act, as amended, is
amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 106.
(a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out
Appropriation authorized.
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of $400,000,000 for the purpose of paying compensation to the extent authorized by this title, and of such sum, not to exceed $12,000,000 shall be available to pay the expenses of the Commission. All moneys
Availability of funds.
heretofore or hereinafter appropriated under authority of this title shall remain available until April 30, 1951.”
Approved January 26, 1948.