A bill to liberalize eligibility for cost-of-living increases in civil service retirement annuities.
PL 93-136 (H.R.3799), enacted 10/24/1973

490 
PUBLIC LAW 93-136-OCT. 24,^1973 
[87 STAT. 
Contracting, 
minimum sum. 
60 Stat. 1082; 
68 Stat. 574; 
72 Stat. 1793 
Marihuana. 
Short title. 
available, no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from commodities or 
materials produced outside of the United States. 
SEC. 506. Xot less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations of the 
Department of Agriculture for research and service work authorized 
by the Acts of August 14,1946, July 28,1954, and September 6, 1958 
(7 U.S.C. 427,1621-1629; 42 U.S.C. 1891-1893), shall be available for 
contracting in accordance with said Acts. 
SEC. 507. Xo part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 508. No part of the funds contained in this Act may be used to 
make production or other payments to a person, persons, or corpora-
tions who harvest or knowingly permit to be harvested for illegal use, 
marihuana, or other such prohibited drug-producing plants on any 
part of lands owned or controlled by such persons or corporations. 
This Act may be cited as the "Agriculture-Environmental and Con-
sumer Protection Appropriation Act, 1974". 
Approved October 24, 1973. 
Public Law 93-136 
October 24, 1973 
[H. R. 3799] 
Civil-service 
retirement. 
Cost-of-living 
increases, eligi-
bility. 
80 Stat. 576; 
83 Stat. 139. 
AN ACT 
86 Stat. 144. 
Effective date. 
To liberalize eligibility for cost-of-living increases in civil service retirement 
annuities. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amenca in Congress assembled, That section 8340(c) 
of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by renumbering paragraphs (1) and (2) thereof as para-
graphs (2) and (3),respectively; and 
(2) by inserting immediately above paragraph (2) (renum-
bered as such by paragraph (1) of this section), the following 
new paragraph: 
"(1) An annuity (except a deferred annuity under section 
8338 of this title or any other provision of law) which— 
"(A) is payable from the Fund to an employee or Member 
who retires, or to the widow or widower of a deceased 
employee or Member; and 
"(B) has a commencing date after the effective date of 
the then last preceding annuity increase under subsection 
(b) of this section: 
shall not be less than the annuity which would have been payable 
if the commencing date of such annuity had been the effective 
date of the then last preceding annuity increase under subsection 
(b) of this section. In the administration of this paragraph, an 
employee or a deceased employee shall be deemed, for the purposes 
of section 8339 (n) of this title, to have to his credit, on the effec-
tive date of the then last preceding annuity increase under sub-
section (b) of this section, a number of days of unused sick leave 
equal to the number of days of unused sick leave to his credit 
on the date of his separation from the service.". 
SEC. 2. The amendments made by this Act shall apply only with 
respect to annuities which commence on or after July 2, 1973. 
Approved October 24, 1973. 
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