An Act to improve position classification systems within the executive branch, and for other purposes
PL 91-216 (H.R.13008), enacted 03/17/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-216-MAR. 17, 1970 
[84 STAT. 
48 Stat. 1185; 
54 Stat. 785. 
45 u s e 151. 
50 Stat. 307. 
45 u s e 228a 
et 
seq. 
50 Stat. 316; 
77 Stat. 220. 
45 u s e 228o. 
80 Stat. 1079. 
25 u s e 3211 
note. 
Separability 
provision. 
SEC. 7. No carrier and no representative of employees, as defined in 
section 1 of the Railway Labor Act, shall, before April 1,1974, utilize 
any of the procedures of such Act to seek to make any changes in the 
provisions of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 for supj)lemental 
annuities or to establish any new class of pensions or annuities, other 
than annuities payable out of the Railroad Retirement Account 
provided under section 15(a) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, 
to become effective prior to July 1,1974; nor shall any such carrier or 
representative of employees until July 1,1974, engage in any strike or 
lockout to seek to make any such changes or to establish any such new 
class of pensions or annuities: Provided, That nothing in this section 
shall inhibit any carrier or representative of employees from seeking 
any change with respect to benefits payable out of the Railroad Retire-
ment Account provided under section 15 (a) of the Railroad Retirement 
Act of 1937. 
SEC. 8. Section 301(f) of the Act of October 30,1966 (Public Law 
89-699), is amended by striking out "for sixty months". 
SEC. 9. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any 
person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and 
the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, 
shall not be affected thereby. 
Approved March 17, 1970. 
Public Law 91-216 
March 17, 1970 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 13008] 
To improve position classification systems within tlxe executive branch, and for 
other purposes. 
Job Evaluation 
Policy Act of 
1970. 
63 Stat. 954, 
972; 80 Stat. 443. 
5 u s e 5101 et 
seq and notes. 
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 "Job Evaluation Policy Act of 1970". 
TITLE I—CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS W I T H RESPECT 
TO JOB EVALUATION AND RANKING IN T H E EXECU-
TIVE BRANCH 
SEC. 101. The Congress hereby finds that— 
(1) the tremendous growth required in the activities of the Fed-
eral Government in order to meet the country's needs during the 
past several decades has led to the need for employees in an ever-
increasing and changing variety of occupations and professions, 
many of which did not exist when the basic principles of job 
evaluation and ranking were established by the Classification Act 
of 1923. The diverse and constantly changing nature of these 
occupations and professions requires that the Federal Government 
reassess its approach to job evaluation and ranking better to 
fulfill its role as an employer and assure efficient and economical 
administration; 
(2) the large number and variety of job evaluation and ranking 
systems in the executive branch have resulted in significant inequi-
ties in selection, promotion, and pay of employees in comparable 
positions among these systems; 
(3) little effort has been made by Congress or the executive 
branch to consolidate or coordinate the various job evaluation and 
ranking systems, and there has been no progress toward the estab-
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lishment of a coordinated system in which job evaluation and 
ranking, regardless of the methods used, is related to a unified 
set of principles providing coherence and equity throughout the 
executive branch; 
(4) within the executive branch, there has been no significant 
study of, or experimentation with, the several recognized methods 
of job evaluation and ranking to determine which of those methods 
are most appropriate for use and application to meet the present 
and future needs of the Federal Government; and 
(5) notwithstanding the recommendations resulting from the 
various studies conducted during the last twenty years, the Federal 
Government has not taken the initiative to implement those recom-
mendations with respect to the job evaluation and ranking systems 
within the executive branch, with the result that such systems have 
not, in many cases, been adapted or administered to meet the 
rapidly changing needs of the Federal Government. 
TITLE II—STATEMENT OF POLICY 
SEC. 201. It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the executive branch shall, in the interest of equity, eificiency, 
and good administration, operate under a coordinated job evalua-
tion and ranking system for all civilian positions, to the greatest 
extent practicable; 
(2) tne system shall be designed so as to utilize such methods of 
job evaluation and ranking as are appropriate for use in the 
executive branch, taking into account the various occupational 
categories of positions therein; and 
(3) the United States Civil Service Commission shall be 
authorized to exercise general supervision and control over such 
a system. 
TITLE III—PREPARATION OF A JOB EVALUATION AND 
RANKING PLAN BY T H E CIVIL SERVICE COMMIS-
SION AND REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO 
CONGRESS 
SEC. 301. The Civil Service Commission, through such organizational 
unit which it shall establish within the Commission and which shall 
report directly to the Commission, shall prepare a comprehensive plan 
for the establishment of a coordinated system of job evaluation and 
ranking for civilian positions in the executive branch. The plan shall 
include, among other things— 
(1) provision for the establishment of a method or methods for 
evaluating jobs and alining them by level; 
(2) a time schedule for the conversion of existing job evaluation 
and ranking systems into the coordinated system ; 
(3) provision that the Civil Service Commission shall have 
general supervision of and control over the coordinated job evalua-
tion and ranking system, including, if the Commission deems it 
appropriate, the authority to approve or disapprove the adoption, 
use and administration in the executive branch of the method or 
methods established under that system; 
(4) provision for the establishment of procedures for the peri-
odic review by the Civil Service Commission of the effectiveness 
of the method or methods adopted for use under the system; and 
(5) provision for maintenance of the system to meet the chang-
ing needs of the executive branch in the future. 
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PUBLIC LAW 91-217-MAR. 19, 1970 
[84 STAT. 
80 Stat. 379. 
Interim 
reports to 
Congress. 
SEC. 302. In carrying out its functions under section 301 of this Act, 
the Commission shall consider all recognized methods of job evaluation 
and ranking. 
SEC. 303. The Civil Service Commission is authorized to secure 
directly from any executive agency, as defined by section 105 of title 5, 
United States Code, or any bureau, office, or part thereof, information, 
suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance for the pur-
poses of this Act; and each such executive agency or bureau, office, or 
part thereof is authorized and directed to furnish such information, 
suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance directly to 
the Civil Service Commission upon request by the Commission. 
SEC. 304. (a) Within one year after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Commission shall submit to the President and the Congress 
an interim progress report on the current status and results of its 
activities under this Act, together with its current findings. 
(b) Within two years after the date of enactment of this Act— 
(1) the Civil Service Commission shall complete its functions 
under this Act and shall transmit to the President a comprehensive 
report of the results of its activities, together with its recommenda-
tions (including its draft of proposed legislation to carry out 
such recommendations), and 
(2) the President shall transmit that report (including the 
recommendations and draft of proposed legislation of the Com-
mission) to the Congress, together with such recommendations 
as the President deems appropriate. 
(e) The Commission shall submit to the Committees on Post Office 
and Civil Service of the Senate and House of Representatives once 
each calendar month, or at such other intervals as may be directed by 
those committees, or either of them, an interim progress report on the 
then current status and results of the activities of the Commission under 
this Act, together with the then current findings of the Commission. 
(d) The Commission shall periodically consult with, and solicit the 
views of, appropriate employee and professional organizations. 
(e) The organizational unit established under section 301 of this 
Act shall cease to exist upon the submission of the report to the Con-
gress under subsection (b) of this section. 
Approved March 17, 1970. 
^ 
March 19, 1970 
[H.R. 14944] 
Public Law 91-217 
AN ACT 
To authorize an adequate force for the protection of the Executive Mansion and 
foreign embassies, and for other purposes. 
Executive 
Mansion and 
foreign embas-
sies. 
Police 
protection. 
62 Stat. 679. 
3 u s e 202-208 
76 Stat. 95. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representathes 
of the 
United States of ATneiica in Congress assembled. That chapter 3 of 
title 3 of the United States Code is amended as follows— 
(1) by striking the words "White House Police force'' when-
ever they appear in the chapter and inserting in lieu thereof the 
words "Executive Protective Service"; 
(2) by striking the w^ords "White House Police" whenever they 
appear m the chapter and inserting in lieu thereof "Executive 
Protective Service"; 
(3) by striking the second sentence of section 202 and inserting 
in lieu thereof, the following: "Subject to the supervision of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Executive Protective Service shall