An Act to provide for a Presidents Advisory Commission on Presidential Office Space
PL 84-954 (S.4228), enacted 08/03/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 954-AUG. 3, 1956 
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SEPABABILITY OF PROVISIONS 
SEC. 10. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof 
to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the 
Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or cir-
cumstances shall not be affected thereby. 
SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect sixty days after its approval. 
Approved August 3, 1956. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 954 
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ACT 
August 3, 1956 
To provide for a President's Advisory Commission on Presidential Office Space. 
[S. 4228] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
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established a commission to be known as the Presidents Advisory onPresidentiaiof-
Commission on Presidential Office Space (hereinafter referred to as "*^* space, 
the "Commission"). 
It shall be the duty of the Commission (a) to 
study the problem of providing more adequate office space for the 
White House Office and the other agencies of the Executive Office of 
the President, and (b) within six months after the approval of this 
Act to report to the President such findings and recomipendations as 
it deems appropriate. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Commission shall be composed of seven members 
as follows: 
(1) Two Senators appointed by the President of the Senate; 
(2) Two Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives; 
(3) Three persons appointed by the President of the United States 
from the executive branch or from private life. 
(b) A vacancy in the Commission shall not affect its powers but 
shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment was 
made. 
(c) The Commission shall elect a Chairman and a Vice Chairman 
from among its members. 
(d) Commission members appointed from the Congress and the 
executive branch shall serve without additional compensation. 
Com-
mission members appointed from private life shall receive $50 per diem 
when engaged in the performance of Commission duties. 
AH Com-
mission members shall receive reimbursement for necessary traveling 
and subsistence expenses incurred by them in the performance of 
Commission duties. 
(e) Within the limits of its appropriations, the Commission is 
authorized to appoint such personnel, without regard to the civil-
service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and to 
make such expenditures as, in its discretion, it deems necessary. 
(f) The Commission is authorized to request and secure the advice 
or assistance of any Federal agency. 
Any Federal agency furnish-
ing advice or assistance to the Commission may expend its own funds 
for this purpose, with or without reimbursement from the Commis-
sion, as may be agreed upon between the Commission and the agency. 
(g) Thirty days after the submission of its final report the Com-
mission shall cease to exist. 
SEC. 3. Appropriations to the President for "Expenses of manage-
ment improvement" shall be available for necessary expenses of the 
Commission, and there are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
such additional sums as may be necessary for such expenses. 
Approved August 3, 1966. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
Termination. 
Funds available.