Fiscal Year 1973 Retroactive Pay Costs

Fiscal Year 1973 Retroactive Pay Costs Sec. 301. For costs arising from the fiscal year 1973 pay increases granted by or pursuant to the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 and the Act of December 16, 1967 (81 Stat. 649), for any branch of the Federal Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia, to be available immediately, such amounts as may be necessary, to be determined as hereinafter provided in this title, but no appropriation, fund, limitation, or authorization may be increased pursuant to the provisions of this title in an amount in excess of the cost to such appropriation, fund, limitation, or authorization related to increased compensation pursuant to such statutes. Sec. 302. Whenever any officer referred to in section 303 of this title shall determine that he has exhausted the possibilities of meeting the cost of pay increases, first, through the use of the unobligated balances of the fiscal year 1973 appropriations, funds, limitations, or authorizations properly chargeable with the costs in fiscal year 1973, which are hereby restored and made available for this purpose, and, secondly, through the use of the corresponding appropriations, funds, limitations, or authorizations for the fiscal year 1974, he shall certify the additional amount required to meet such costs for each appropriation, fund, limitation, or authorization under his administrative control, and with respect to retired pay he shall certify the additional amount required for the fiscal year 1974 costs resulting from such pay increases in fiscal year 1973, and the amounts so certified shall be added to the pertinent appropriation, fund, limitation, or authorization for the fiscal year 1974: Provided, That any certification made under the authority of this section by an officer in or under the executive branch of the Federal Government shall be valid only when approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Sec. 303. For the purposes of the certifications authorized by section 302 of this title, the following officers shall be deemed to have administrative control of appropriations, funds, limitations, or authorizations available within their respective organization units— (a) The legislative branch: The Clerk of the House; The Secretary of the Senate;88 Stat. 231 The Librarian of Congress; The Architect of the Capitol; The Public Printer ; The Comptroller General of the United States; The Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court; The chairman of any commission in or under the legislative branch. (b) For the Judiciary: The Administrative Officer of the United States Courts; The Marshal of the Supreme Court. (c) For the executive branch: The head of each department, agency, or corporation in or under the executive branch. (d) For the municipal government of the District of Columbia: The Commissioner of the District of Columbia. Sec. 304. Obligations or expenditures incurred for pay increases and related costs pursuant to this title, shall not be regarded or reported as violations of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665). Sec. 305. (a) Amounts made available by this title shall be derived from the same source as the appropriation, fund, limitation, or authorization to which such amounts are added. (b) Appropriations made pursuant to this title shall be recorded on the books of the Government as of June 30, 1974: Provided, That no appropriation made by this title shall be warranted after August 15, 1974. (c) A complete report of the appropriations made by or pursuant to this title shall be made not later than September 15, 1974, by the officers described in section 303 to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who shall compile and transmit to the Congress a consolidated report not later than October 15, 1974. Sec. 306. With respect to the application of Executive Order Numbered 11691 of December 15, 1972, as amended by Executive Order Numbered 11777 of April 12, 1974, relating to the change from January 1, 1973, to October 1, 1972, as the effective date for certain adjustments of rates of pay of certain statutory pay systems, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in the administration of and in accordance with section 5 of the Federal Pay Comparability Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1952–53; Public Law 91–656), with respect to each employee or former employee who was on the employment rolls of the House for any period occurring on or after October 1, 1972, and ending at the close of December 31, 1972, whose pay was disbursed in such period by the Clerk of the House, may make adjustments in the rate of pay of such employee or former employee for such period who was then on the employment rolls of the House, if, in the determination of the Clerk, the pay fixing authority governing the adjustment of pay under such Executive Order Numbered 11691, as in effect on January 1, 1973, has changed.