Volume 76 · 111
Public Law 87–500
To amend section 306(a) of the Career Compensation Act of 1049 by increasing per diem rates and to provide reimbursement under certain circumstances for actual expenses incident to travel.
Approved June 27, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 306(a) of the Career Compensation Act of 1049 by increasing per diem rates and to provide reimbursement under certain circumstances for actual expenses incident to travel.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 303(a)
Armed Forces.
Per diem, travel rates, increase.
of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 802), as amended (37 U.S.C. 253(a)), is further amended by striking from the last sentence thereof the figure “$12” in clause (2) and inserting in lieu thereof the figure “$16”.
Sec. 2.
Section 303(a) is further amended by adding the following new sentence at the end thereof: “Where due to unusual circumstances of a travel assignment the maximum per diem allowance would be less than the amount required to meet the actual and necessary expenses of the trip, reimbursement for such expenses may be authorized, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, on an actual expense basis, but not to exceed the amount specified in the travel authorization, and in any event not to exceed $30 for each day in a travel status.”
Approved June 27, 1962.