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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 10 — Classification of Employees of House of Representatives

§ 298. Reductions in compensation level

Statutory text

Each employee in a position of a compensation level of the House Employees Schedule (HS) or the House Wage Schedule (HWS), whose employment in such position and level is terminated and who is reemployed, with or without break in service, in a position in a lower compensation level (HS level or HWS level) of such schedule, or whose position is placed in a lower compensation level of such schedule pursuant to a reclassification of such position, shall be placed by the committee in such step of such lower compensation level as the committee deems appropriate.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. House Employees Position Classification Act

    Pub. L. 88–652 § 9 · 78 Stat. 1079

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 298

    (Pub. L. 88–652, § 9, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1083.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 88–652, § 9, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1083.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. reductions in compensation level Each employee in a position of a compensation level of the House Employees Schedule (HS) or the House Wage Schedule (HWS), whose employment in such position and level is terminated and who is reemployed, with or without break in service, in a position in a lower compensation level (HS level or HWS level) of such schedule, or whose position is placed in a lower compensation level of such schedule pursuant to a reclassification of such position, shall be placed by the committee in such step of such lower compensation level as the committee deems appropriate.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 17 of Pub. L. 88–652, set out as a note under section 291 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 88–652, § 9, , 78 Stat. 1083.)

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