An Act to provide for the payment of certain amounts and restoration of employment benefits to certain Government officers and employees improperly deprived thereof, and for other purposes
PL 89-380 (H.R.1647), enacted 03/30/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-37 9-MAR. 30, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
Public Law 89-379 
March 30, 1966 
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[H. R. 10553] 
To preserve the benefits of the Civil Service Retirement Act, the Federal 
Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, and the Federal Employees 
Health Benefits Act of 1959 for congressional employees receiving certain con-
gressional staff fellow^ships. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
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GRch employee of the Senate or House of Representatives— 
Nonpay status. 
(1) whose compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the 
Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and 
(2) who, on or after January 1, 1963 shall have been separated 
from employment with the Senate or House of Representatives in 
order to pursue certain studies under a congressional staff fellow-
ship awarded by the American Political Science Association, 
the period of time covered by such fellowship shall be held and con-
sidered to be service (in a nonpay status) in employment with the 
Senate or House of Representatives, as the case may be, at the rate of 
compensation received immediately prior to separation (including 
any increases in compensation provided by law during the period 
covered by such fellowshij)) for the purposes of— 
(A) the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
2251 and following), 
(B) the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. 2091 and following), and 
(C) the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Act of 1959, as 
73 Stat. 708. 
amended (5 U.S.C. 3001 aud foUowiug), 
if the award of such fellowship to such employee is certified to the Sec-
retary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as 
appropriate, by the appointing authority concerned or, in the event of 
the death or disability of such appointing authority, is established to 
the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the 
House by records or other evidence. 
Approved March 30, 1966. 
Public Law 89-380 
March 30, 1966 
AN ACT 
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[H. R. 1647] 
To provide for the payment of certain amounts and restoration of employment 
benefits to certain Government officers and employees improperly deprived 
thereof, and for other purposes. 
70 Stat. 743. 
68 Stat. 7 36. 
Back Pay Act of 
1966. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
be cited as the "Back Pay Act of 1966". 
SEC. 2. For the purposes of this Act— 
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(1) "agency" m e a n ^ 
(A) each executive department of the Government of the 
United States; 
(B) each agency or independent establishment in the execu-
tive branch of such Government; 
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(C) each corporation owned or controlled by such Govern-
ment; 
(D) the Administrative Office of the United States Courts; 
(E) the Library of Congress; 
(F) the General Accounting Office; 
(G) the Government Printmg Office; and 
(H) the municipal government of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 3. Each civilian officer or employee of an agency who, on the 
unjustified pei-
basis of an administrative determination or a timely appeal, is found, benem prin°c^pies. 
on or after the date of enactment of this Act, by appropriate authority 
under applicable law or regulation to have undergone an unjustified 
or unwarranted personnel action taken prior to, on, or after the date of 
enactment of this Act, which has resulted in the withdrawal or reduc-
tion of all or any part of the pay, allowances, or differentials of such 
officer or employee— 
(1) shall be entitled, upon correction of such personnel action, 
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to receive for the period for which such personnel action was in 
effect an amount commensurate with the amount of all or any part 
of the pay, allowances, or differentials, as applicable, which such 
officer or employee normally would have earned during such 
period if such personnel action had not occurred, less any amounts 
earned by him through other employment during such period; and 
(2) for all purposes, shall be held and considered to have ren- . Leave accumuia-
dered service for such agency during such period, except that such 
officer or employee shall not be credited, by reason of the enact-
ment of this Act, leave in an amount which would cause any 
amount of leave to his credit to exceed any maximum amount of 
such leave authorized for such officer or employee by law or regu-
lation. 
SEC. 4. The United States Civil Service Commission shall prescribe 
Regulations; 
regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. Such regulations """^P^^"^'''^''-'-
shall not be applicable with respect to the Tennessee Valley Authority 
and its officers and employees. 
SEC. 5. There are hereby repealed— 
Repeals. 
(1) section 6(b) of the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended (5 
U.S.C. 652(b)); and 
62 stat. 355. 
(2) that part of the third proviso of the first section of the Act 
of August 26,1950 (5 LT.S.C. 22-1), which reads: ", and if so rein- 
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stated or restored shall be allowed compensation for all or any 
part of the period of such suspension or termination in an amount 
not to exceed the difference between the amount such person would 
normally have earned during the period of such suspension or 
termination, at the rate he was receiving on the date of suspension 
or termination, as appropriate, and the interim net eammgs of 
such person". 
Approved March 30, 1966.