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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 43 — Department of Health and Human Services

§ 3502. Assistant Secretary for Administration; appointment and duties

Statutory text

There shall be in the Department of Health and Human Services an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Administration who shall be appointed, with the approval of the President, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the classified civil service, who shall perform such duties as the Secretary shall prescribe.

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. Pub. L. 86–568 title II § 202 · 74 Stat. 296

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 3502

    Pub. L. 86–568, title II, § 202, July 1, 1960, 74 Stat. 305

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 86–568, title II, § 202, July 1, 1960, 74 Stat. 305

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 202. There shall be in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Administrative Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare who shall be appointed, with the approval of the President, by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under the classified civil service, who shall perform such duties as the Secretary shall prescribe, and whose annual rate of basic compensation shall be $19,000.

  2. Government Employees Salary Reform Act of 1964

    Pub. L. 88–426 § 305(34) · 78 Stat. 400

    Struck · 42 U.S.C. § 3502

    Pub. L. 88–426, § 305(34), struck out provisions which prescribed compensation of Administrative Assistant Secretary

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 88–426, § 305(34), struck out provisions which prescribed compensation of Administrative Assistant Secretary.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (34) That part, of section 202 of the Act, of July 1, 1960 (74 Stat. 305; 5 U.S.C. 623g), relating to the annual salary of the Administrative Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, which reads: “, and whose annual rate of basic compensation shall be $19,000”.

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 88–426 effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after July 1, 1964, except to the extent provided in section 501(c) of Pub. L. 88–426, see section 501 of Pub. L. 88–426, title V, Aug. 14, 1964, 78 Stat. 435.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 623g of former Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees, prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, , 80 Stat. 378.

Amendments

1964—Pub. L. 88–426, § 305(34), struck out provisions which prescribed compensation of Administrative Assistant Secretary.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Department of Health and Human Services”, “Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services”, and “Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Department of Health, Education, and Welfare”, “Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare”, and “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare”, respectively, pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

“Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Administration” substituted for “Administrative Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 307 of Pub. L. 88–426.

Effective Date of 1964 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 88–426 effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after , except to the extent provided in section 501(c) of Pub. L. 88–426, see section 501 of Pub. L. 88–426, title V, , 78 Stat. 435.

Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after , see section 122 of Pub. L. 86–568.

Credits

1960–1979 · 3 acts
  1. 1960Pub. L. 86–568, title II, § 202, , 74 Stat. 305
  2. 1964Pub. L. 88–426, title III, §§ 305(34), 307, , 78 Stat. 426, 432
  3. 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.
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(Pub. L. 86–568, title II, § 202, , 74 Stat. 305; Pub. L. 88–426, title III, §§ 305(34), 307, , 78 Stat. 426, 432; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)

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