Volume 69 · 710
Public Law 84–380
To provide for the granting of career-conditional and career appointments to certain qualified employees.
Approved August 12, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the granting of career-conditional and career appointments to certain qualified employees.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the appointment
Government employees.
Careeer-conditional and career appointments.
of each employee of the Federal Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia who—
1) on the effective date of this Act is serving under an indefinite or temporary appointment in a position in the competitive civil service other than a position for which the salary is fixed by the Postal Field Service Compensation Act of 1955 (Public Law
Ante, p. 88.
68, Eighty-fourth Congress);
on January 23, 1955, was serving in a position in the competitive civil service;
from January 23, 1955, to the effective date of this Act, served in a position or positions in the competitive civil service without break in service;
(A) during the period beginning June 3, 1950, and ending January 23, 1955, passed a qualifying examination for a position in the competitive civil service in which he served during such period, or (B) within one year after the effective date of this Act meets such noncompetitive examination standards as the United States Civil Service Commission shall prescribe with respect to the position which he holds at the time lie makes the application prescribed by this section; and
has completed, prior to making such application, a total of continuous or intermittent satisfactory service aggregating not less than three years on the rolls in a position or positions in the competitive civil service;
shall, upon application by such employee made within one year after the effective date of this Act to the appropriate department, agency, or establishment concerned, and upon recommendation by such department, agency, or establishment, be converted to a career-conditional appointment or a career appointment determined by the appropriate United States Civil Service Commission regulations governing conversions to career-conditional or career appointments in accordance
3 CFR, 1954 Supp., p. 84.
D. C. Corrections Department employees.
with Executive Order Numbered 10377, dated November 22, 1954.
Sec. 2.
The appointment in the competitive civil service of each employee who—
was appointed on or after December 20, 1941, to a position in the Workhouse at Occoquan in the State of Virginia, the Reformatory at Lorton in the State of Virginia, or the Washington Asylum and Jail, (B) was appointed to a position in the Department of Corrections of the District of Columbia (as constituted on and after June 27, 1946) with a war service indefinite appointment, or (C) was appointed on or after June 27, 1946, and prior to January 1, 1955, to a position in such Department of Corrections, without regard to the civil-service laws, rules, and regulations;
is in a position in the Department of Corrections of the District of Columbia on the effective date of this Act;
has completed, prior to making the application prescribed by this section, a total of continuous or intermittent satisfactory service aggregating not less than three years in a position or positions in the municipal government of the District of Columbia; and
within one year after the effective date of this Act meets such noncompetitive examination standards as the United Stales Civil Service Commission shall prescribe with respect to the position which he holds at the time he makes the application prescribed by this section;
shall, upon application by such employee made within one year after the effective date of this Act to the appropriate department, agency, or establishment concerned, and upon recommendation by such department, agency, or establishment, be converted to a career-conditional appointment or a career appointment determined by the appropriate United States Civil Service Commission regulations governing conversions to career-conditional or career appointments
3 CFR 1954 Supp., p. 84.
in accordance with Executive Order Numbered 10577, dated November 22, 1954.
Sec. 3.
Each individual who—
was serving in a position in the competitive civil service under an indefinite appointment on January 23, 1955;
between January 23, 1955, and the effective date of this Act, was involuntarily separated from the competitive civil service for any reason other than for cause;
(A) during the period beginning June 3, 1950, and ending January 23, 1955, passed a qualifying examination for a position in which he served during such period, or (B) within one year after the effective date of this Act, meets such non-competitive examination standards as the United States Civil Service Commission shall prescribe; and
has completed, prior to reappointment under this section, a total of continuous or intermittent satisfactory service aggregating not less than three years on the rolls in a position or positions in the competitive civil service;
may, during the period ending two years after the effective date of this Act, be reappointed without competitive examination to a position in the competitive civil service for which he is qualified and such reappointment (except reappointment to a position involving temporary job employment) shall be a career-conditional appointment or a career appointment determined by the appropriate United States Civil Service Commission regulations governing conversions to career-conditional or career appointments in accordance with Executive Order Numbered 10577, dated November 22, 1954.
3 CFR. 1954 Supp., p. 84.
Rules and regulations.
Sec. 4.
The United States Civil Service Commission is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as it determines to be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 5.
Nothing in this Act shall affect, or be construed to affect, the application of section 1310 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952 (Public Law 253, Eighty-second Congress), as amended.
Sec. 6.
This Act shall take effect on the ninetieth day following the
Effective date.
date of its enactment.
Approved August 12, 1955.