An Act to provide a health benefits program for Government employees.
PL 86-382 (S.2162), enacted 09/28/1959

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Short title. 
1955, which has not been reported heretofore— 
(a) a statement of each claim reconsidered or submitted to the 
Secretary of the Army in accordance with this Act which has 
not been settled by him, with supporting papers and a report of 
his findings of fact and recommendations; and 
(b) a report of each claim settled by him and paid pursuant 
to this Act. 
The reports shall contain a brief statement concern-
ing the character and justice of each claim, the amount claimed, 
and the amount approved and paid. 
SEC. 7. Claimants shall submit their claims in writing to the Secre-
tary of the Army, under such rules as he prescribes, within ninety days 
after enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 8. The Secretary of the Army is directed to reconsider and 
settle claims affected by the provisions of this Act without regard to 
any release of and assignment to the United States heretofore executed 
by the claimants. 
SEC. 9. All departments and agencies of the Government upon the 
request of the Secretary of the Army or his designee are authorized 
to furnish any information available relevant to the reconsideration 
and settlement of claims under this Act. 
SEC. 10. The Secretary of the Army, in settling the claims herein 
directed to be settled, shall proceed to consider the claims heretofore 
filed, if sufficient in form, and may at his option require the claimant 
to file an additional claim or submit additional evidence of loss. The 
Secretary of the Army shall forthwith notify all claimants or their 
attorneys, if any, whose claims are to be reconsidered under the provi-
sions of this Act that such reconsideration is being undertaken. When 
a file relating to a claim previously submitted under this Act shows 
that a person other than a person who submitted the claim would be 
entitled to recover if he submitted a claim, the Secretary of the Army 
or his designee shall notify the person of his right to submit a claim. 
SEC. 11. In making the settlements authorized by this Act, the 
Secretary of the Army shall proceed under all of the limitations and 
directions of the Act of August 12, 1955, except as herein amended, 
and shall make such settlements under the regulations and procedures 
used in making settlements under the Act of August 12, 1955, except 
as to such changes necessitated by this Act, and all of the provisions 
of the Act of August 12, 1955, except as herein amended, shall apply 
to settlements made under this Act. 
SEC. 12. This Act may be cited as the "1959 Amendment to the 
Texas City Disaster Relief Act". 
Approved September 25, 1959. 
September 28, 1959 
[S. 2162] 
Public Law 86-382 
AN ACT 
To provide a health benefits program for Government employees. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate aifid House of Representatives 
of the 
ee^°HVaith^'B'in^ United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
fits Act o
f 1959. be cited as the "Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959". 
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DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 2. As used in this Act— 
(a) "Employee" means an appointive or elective officer or employee 
in or under the executive, judicial, or legislative branch of the United 
States Government, including a Government-owned or controlled 
corporation (but not including any corporation under the supervision 
of the Farm Credit Administration, of which corporation any member 
of the board of directors is elected or appointed by private interests), 
or of the municipal government of the District of Columbia, and 
includes an Official Reporter of Debates of the Senate and a person 
employed by the Official Reporters of Debates of the Senate in con-
nection with the performance of their official duties, and an employee 
of Gallaudet College, but does not include (1) a member of a "uni-
formed service" as such term is defined in section 1072 of title 10 of 
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the United States Code, (2) a noncitizen employee whose permanent-
duty station is located outside a State of the United States or the 
District of Columbia, or (3) an employee of the Tennessee Valley 
Authority. 
(b) "Government" means the Government of the United States of 
America (including the municipal government of the District of 
Columbia). 
(c) "Annuitant" means— 
(1) an employee who on or after the effective date of the pro-
visions referred to in section 16 retires on an immediate annuity, 
under the Civil Service Retirement Act or other retirement system 
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for civilian employees of the Government, after twelve or more se^. 
years of service or for disability, 
(2) a member of a family who receives an immediate annuity 
as the survivor of a retired employee described in clause (1) or 
of an employee who dies after completing five or more years of 
service, 
(3) an employee who receives monthly compensation under 
the Federal Employees' Compensation Act as a result of injury 
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sustained or illness contracted on or after such date of enactment 
and who is determined by the Secretary of Labor to be unable 
to return to duty, and 
(4) a member of a family who receives monthly compensation 
under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act as the surviving 
beneficiary of (A) an employee who, having completed five or 
more years of service, dies as a result of illness or injury compen-
sable under such Act or (B) a former employee who is separated 
after having completed five or more years of service and who 
dies while receiving monthly compensation under such Act on 
account of injury sustained or illness contracted on or after such 
date of enactment and has been held by the Secretary of Labor 
to have been unable to return to duty. 
For the purpose of this subsection, "service" means service which is 
creditable for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act. 
(d) "Member of family" means an employee's or annuitant's spouse 
and any unmarried child (1) under the age of nineteen years (includ-
ing (A) an adopted child, and (B) a stepchild or recognized natural 
child who lives with the employee or annuitant in a regular parent-
child relationship), or (2) regardless of age who is incapable of self-
support because of mental or physical incapacity that existed prior 
to his reaching the age of nineteen years. 
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(e) "Dependent husband" means a husband who is incapable of self-
support by reason of mental or physical disability which can be ex-
pected to continue for more than one year. 
(f) "Health benefits plan" means a group insurance policy or con-
tract, medical or hospital service agreement, membership or subscrip-
tion contract, or similar group arrangement provided by a carrier for 
the purpose of providing, paying for, or reimbursing expenses for 
health services. 
(g) "Carrier" means a voluntary association, corporation, partner-
ship, or other nongovernmental organization which is lawfully en-
gaged in providing, paying for, or reimbursing the cost of, health serv-
ices under group insurance policies or contracts, medical or hospital 
service agreements, membership or subscription contracts, or similar 
group arrangements, in consideration of premiums or other periodic 
charges payable to the carrier, including a health benefits plan duly 
sponsored or underwritten by an employee organization. 
(h) "Commission" means the United States Civil Service Com-
mission. 
(i) "Employee organization" means an association or other organ-
ization of employees which— 
(1) is national in scope or 
(2) in which membership is open to all employees of a Govern-
ment department, agency, or independent establishment who are 
eligible to enroll in a health benefits plan under this Act, 
and which on or before December 31,1959, applies to the Commission 
for approval of a plan provided for by section 4(3) of this Act. 
ELECTION OF COVERAGE 
SEC. 3. (a) Any employee may, at such time, in such manner, and 
under such conditions of eligibility as the Commission may by regula-
tion prescribe, enroll in an approved health benefits plan described in 
section 4 either as an individual or for self and family. 
Such regu-
lations may provide for the exclusion of employees on the basis of the 
nature and type of their employment or conditions pertaining thereto, 
such as, but not limited to, short-term appointments, seasonal or inter-
mittent employment, and employment of like nature, but no employee 
or group of employees shall be excluded solely on the basis of the 
hazardous nature of their employment. 
(b) Any annuitant who at the time he becomes an annuitant shall 
have been enrolled in a health benefits plan under tliis Act— 
(1) for a period not less than (A) the five years of service 
immediately preceding retirement or (B) the full period or 
periods of service between the last day of the first period, as 
prescribed by regulations of the Commission, in which he is eli-
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gible to enroll in such a plan and the date on which he becomes 
an annuitant, whichever is shorter, or 
(2) as a member of the family of an employee or annuitant 
may continue his enrollment under such conditions of eligibility as 
may be prescribed by regulations of the Commission. 
(c) I t an employee has a spouse who is an employee, either spouse 
(but not both) may enroll for self and family, or either spouse may 
enroll as an individual, but no person may be enrolled both as an 
employee or annuitant and as a member of the family. 
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(d) A change in the coverage of any employee or annuitant, or of 
any employee or annuitant and members of his family, enrolled in a 
health benefits plan under this Act may be made by the employee or 
annuitant upon application filed within sixty days after the occur-
rence of a change m family status or at such other times and under 
such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations of the Commission. 
(e) A transfer of enrollment from one health benefits plan described 
in section 4 to another such plan may be made by an employee or 
annuitant at such times and under such conditions as may be pre-
scribed by regulations of the Commission. 
HEALTH BENEFITS PLANS 
SEC. 4. The Commission may contract for or approve the following 
health benefits plans: 
(1) SERVICE BENEFIT PLAN.—One Government-wide plan (offering 
two levels of benefits) under which payment is made by a carrier under 
contracts with physicians, hospitals, or other providers of health serv-
ices for benefits of the types described in section 5(1) rendered to 
employees or annuitants, or members of their families, or, under cer-
tain conditions, payment is made by a carrier to the employee or annui-
tant or member of his family. 
(2) INDEMNITY BENEFIT PLAN.—One Government-wide plan (offer-
ing two levels of benefits) under which a carrier agrees to pay certain 
sums of money, not in excess of the actual expenses incurred, for bene-
fits of the types described in section 5(2). 
(3) EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION PLANS.—Employee organization plans 
which offer benefits of the types referred to m section 5(3), which are 
sponsored or underwritten, and are administered, in whole or sub-
stantial part, by employee organizations, which are available only to 
persons (and members of their families) who at the time of enrollment 
are members of the organization, and which on July 1,1959, provided 
health benefits to members of the organization. 
(4) COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL PLANS.— 
(A) GROUP-PRACTICE PREPAYMENT PLANS.—Group-practice prepay-
ment plans which offer health benefits of the types referred to in 
section 5(4), in whole or in substantial part on a prepaid basisj with 
professional services thereunder provided by physicians practicing as 
a group in a common center or centers. Such a group shall include 
physicians representing at least three major medical specialties who re-
ceive all or a substantial part of their professional income from the 
prepaid funds. 
(B) INDIVIDUAL-PRACTICE PREPAYMENT PLANS.—Individual-practice 
prepayment plans which offer health services in whole or substantial 
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art on a prepaid basis, with professional services thereunder provided 
y individual physicians who agree, under certain conditions ap-
proved by the Commission, to accept the payments provided by the 
plans as full payment for covered services rendered by them includ-
ing, in addition to in-hospital services, general care rendered in their 
offices and the patients' homes, out-of-hospital diagnostic procedures, 
and preventive care, and which plans are offered by organizations 
which have successfully operated such plans prior to approval by the 
Commission of the plan in which employees may enroll. 
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TYPES OF BENEFITS 
SEC. 5. The benefits to be provided under plans described in section 
4 may be of the following types: 
(1) SERVICE BENEFIT PLAN.— 
(A^ Hospital benefits. 
(B) Surgical benefits. 
^C) In-hospital medical benefits. 
(D) Ambulatory patient benefits. 
(E) Supplemental benefits. 
(F) Obstetrical benefits. 
(2) INDEMNITY BENEFIT PLAN.— 
(A) Hospital care. 
(B) Surreal care and treatment. 
'C) Medical care and treatment. 
D) Obstetrical benefits. 
E) Prescribed drugs, medicines, and prosthetic devices. 
,^F) Other medical supplies and services. 
(3] EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION PLANS.—Benefits of the types specified 
in this section under paragraph (1) or (2) or both. 
(4) COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL PLANS.—Benefits of the types specified 
in this section under paragraph (1) or (2) or both. 
All plans contracted for under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall in-
clude benefits both for costs associated with care in a general hospital 
and for other health service costs of a catastrophic nature. 
CONTRACTING AUTHORITY 
SEC. 6. (a) The Commission is authorized, without regard to section 
3709 of the Revised Statutes or any other provision of law requiring 
competitive bidding, to enter into contracts with qualified carriers 
offering plans described in section 4. Each such contract shall be 
for a uniform term of at least one year, but may be made automati-
cally renewable from term to term in the absence of notice of termina-
tion by either party. 
(b)(1) To be eligible as the carrier for the plan described in section 
4(2), a company must be licensed to issue group health insurance in 
all the States of the United States and the District of Columbia. 
(2) Each contract for a plan described in paragraph (1) or (2) of 
section 4 shall rec[uire the carrier— 
(A) to reinsure with such other companies as may elect to par-
ticipate, in accordance with an equitable formula based on the 
total amount of their group health insurance benefit payments in 
the United States during the latest year for which such informa-
tion is available, to be determined oy the carrier and approved 
by the Commissionj or 
(B) to allocate its rights and obligations under the contract 
among such of its affiliates as may elect to participate, in accord-
ance with an equitable formula to be determined by the carrier 
and such affiliates and aj)proved by the Commission. 
(c) Each contract under this Act shall contain a detailed statement 
of benefits offered and shall include such maximums, limitations, ex-
clusions, and other definitions of benefits as the Commission may deem 
necessary or desirable. 
(d) The Commission is authorized to prescribe regulations fixing 
reasonable minimum standards for health benefits plans described in 
section 4 and for carriers offering such plans. Approval of such a 
plan shall not be withdrawn except after notice, and opportunity for 
5° u^s'c^ioo 1 hearing without regard to the Administrative Procedure Act, to the 
"ote- 
carrier or carriers concerned. 
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(e) No contract shall be made or plan approved which excludes 
any person because of race, sex, health status, or, at the time of the 
first opportunity to enroll, because of age. 
(f) No contract shall be made or plan approved which does not 
offer to each employee and annuitant whose enrollment in the plan is 
terminated, other than by a cancellation of enrollment, a temj)orary 
extension of coverage during which he may exercise the option to 
convert, without evidence of good health, to a nongroup contract pro-
viding health benefits. An employee or annuitant who exercises this 
option shall pay the full periodic charges of the nongroup contract, 
on such terms or conditions as are prescribed by the carrier and 
approved by the Commission. 
(g) The benefits and coverage made available pursuant to the 
provisions of subsection (f) shall, at the option of the employee or 
annuitant, be noncancelable by the carrier except for fraud, overin-
surance, or nonpayment of periodic charges. 
(h) Rates charged under health benefits plans described in section 4 
shall reasonably and equitably reflect the cost of the benefits provided. 
Rates under health benefits plans described in section 4 (1) and (2) 
shall be determined on a basis which, in the judgment of the Commis-
sion, is consistent with the lowest schedule of basic rates generally 
charged for new group health benefit plans issued to large employers; 
rates determined for the first contract term shall be continued for 
subsequent contract terms, except that they may be readjusted for any 
subsequent term, based on past experience and benefit adjustments 
under the subsequent contract; any readjustment in rates shall be 
made in advance of the contract term in which they will apply and 
on a basis which, in the judgment of the Commission, is consistent with 
the general practice of carriers which issue group health benefit plans 
to large employers. 
CONTKIBUTIONS 
SEC. 7. (a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this sub-
section, the Government contribution for health benefits for em-
ployees or annuitants enrolled in health benefits plans under this Act, 
m addition to the contributions required by paragraph (3), shall be 
50 per centum of the lowest rates charged by a carrier for a level of 
benefits offered by a plan under paragraph (1) oi' paragraph (2) of 
section 4, but (A) not less than $1.25 or more than $1.75 biweekly 
for an employee or annuitant who is enrolled for self alone, (B) not 
less than $3 or more than $4.25 biweekly for an employee or annuitant 
who is enrolled for self and family (other than as provided in clause 
(C) of this paragraph), and (C) not less than $1.75 or more than 
$2.50 biweekly for a female employee or annuitant enrolled for self 
and family including a nondependent husband. 
(2) For an employee or annuitant enrolled in a plan described 
under section 4 (3) or (4) for which the biweekly subscription charge 
is less than $2.50 for an employee or annuitant enrolled for self alone 
or $6 for an employee or annuitant enrolled for self and family, the 
contribution of the Government shall be 50 per centum of such sub-
scription charge, except that if a nondependent husband is a member 
of the family of a female employee or annuitant who is enrolled for 
herself and family the contribution of the Government shall be 30 
per centum of such subscription charge. 
(3) There shall be withheld from the salary of each enrolled em-
ployee and the annuity of each enrolled annuitant, and there shall be 
contributed by the Government, amounts (in the same ratio as the 
contributions of such employee or annuitant and the Government 
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under paragraphs (1) and (2)) which are necessary for the admin-
istrative costs and the reserves provided for by section 8 (b). 
(4) There shall be withheld from the salary of each enrolled em-
ployee or annuity of each enrolled annuitant so much as is necessary, 
after deducting the contribution of the Government, to pay the total 
charge for his enrollment. The amount withheld from the annuity 
of an annuitant shall be equal to the amount withheld from the 
salarv of an employee when both are enrolled in the same plan provid-
ing the same health benefits. 
(b) An employee enrolled in a health benefits plan under this Act 
who is placed in a leave without pay status may have his coverage and 
the coverage of members of his family continued under such plan for 
a j)eriod not to exceed one year in accordance with regulations pre-
scribed by the Commission. Such regulations may provide for the 
waiving of contributions by the employee and the Government. 
(c) The sums authorized to be contributed by the Government with 
respect to any employee shall be paid from— 
(1) the appropriation or fund which is used for payment of 
the salary, wage, or other compensation of such employee, 
(2) in the case of an elected official, from such appropriation or 
fund as may be available for payment of other salaries of the 
same office or establishment, 
(3) in the case of an employee in the legislative branch whose 
salary, wage, or other compensation is disbursed by the Clerk 
of the House of Eepresentatives, from the contingent fund of the 
House, and 
(4) in the case of an employee in a leave without pay status, 
from the appropriation or fund which would be used for the pay-
ment of the salary of such employee if he were in a pay status. 
The sums authorized by subsection (a) (1) to be contributed by the 
Government with respect to any annuitant shall be paid from annual 
appropriations which are hereby authorized to be made for such 
purpose. 
(d) The Commission shall provide for conversion of rates of con-
tribution specified in this section in the cases of employees and annui-
tants paid on other than a biweekly basis, and for this purpose may 
provide for adjustment of any such rate to the nearest cent. 
EMPLOYEES HEALTH BENEFITS FUND 
SEC. 8. (a) There is hereby created an Employees Health Benefits 
Fund, hereinafter referred to as the "Fund", to be administered by 
the Commission, which is hereby made available without fiscal year 
limitation for all payments to approved health benefits plans. The 
contributions of employees, annuitants, and the Government described 
in section 7 shall be paid into the Fund. 
(b) Portions of the contributions made by employees, annuitants, 
and the Government shall be regularly set aside in the Fund as fol-
lows: (1) a percentage, not to exceed 1 per centum of all such contri-
butions, determined by the Commission as reasonably adequate to pay 
the administrative expenses made available by section 9; (2) for each 
health benefits plan, a percentage, not to exceed 3 per centum of the 
contributions toward such plan, determined by the Commission as rea-
sonably adequate to provide a contingency reserve. The income 
derived from any dividends, rate adjustments, or other refunds made 
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by a plan shall be credited to its contingency reserve. The contin-
gency reserves may be used to defray increases in future rates, or may 
be applied to reduce the contributions of employees and the Govern-
ment to, or to increase the benefits provided by, the plan from which 
such reserves are derived, as the Commission shall from time to time 
determine. 
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to invest and 
reinvest any of the moneys in the Fund in interest-bearing obligations 
of the United States and to sell such obligations of the United States 
for the purposes of the Fund. The interest on and the proceeds from 
the sale of any such obligations shall become a part of the Fund. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
SEC. 9. (a) There are hereby authorized to be expended from the 
Employees' Life Insurance Fund, without regard to limitations on 
expenditures from that Fund, for the fiscal years 1960 and 1961, such 
sums as may be necessary to pay administrative expenses incurred by 
the Commission in carrying out the health benefits provisions of this 
Act. Reimbursements to the Employees' Life Insurance Fund for 
sums so expended, together with interest at a rate to be determined 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be made from the Employees 
Health Benefits Fund. 
(b) The Employees Health Benefits Fund is hereby made available 
(1) to reimburse the Employees' Life Insurance Fund for sums 
expended by the Commission in administering the provisions of this 
Act for the fiscal years 1960 and 1961 and (2), within such limitations 
as mav be specified annually by the Congress, to pay such expenses 
for subsequent fiscal years. 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 10. (a) The Commission is authorized to promulgate such 
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
(b) Regulations of the Commission shall include regulations with 
respect to the beginning and ending dates of coverage of employees 
and annuitants and members of their families under health benefits 
plans, and for such purpose may permit such coverage to continue, 
exclusive of the temporary extension of coverage described in section 
6(f), until the end oi the pay period in which an employee is separated 
from service or until the end of the month in which an annuitant 
ceases to be entitled to annuity^ and in case of the death of such 
employee or annuitant may permit a temporary extension of the cover-
age of the members of his family for a period not to exceed ninety 
days. 
(c) Any employee enrolled in a plan under this Act who is removed 
or suspended without pay and later reinstated or restored to duty 
on the ground that such removal or suspension was unjustified or 
unwarranted shall not be deprived of coverage or benefits for the 
interim but shall have his coverage restored to the same extent and 
effect as though such removal or suspension had not taken place, and 
appropriate adjustments shall be made in premiums, subscription 
charges, contributions, and claims. 
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(d) The Commission shall make available to each employee eligible 
to enroll in a health benefits plan under this Act such information, in 
a form acceptable to the Commission after consultation with the car-
rier, as may be necessary to enable such employee to exercise an 
informed choice among the types of plans referred to in section 4. 
Each employee enrolled in such a health benefits plan shall be issued 
an appropriate document setting forth or summarizing the services 
or benefits (including maximums, limitations, and exclusions), to 
which the employee, or the employee and members of his family, are 
entitled thereunder, the procedure for obtaining benefits, and the prin-
cipal provisions of the plan affecting the employee or members of his 
family. 
STUDIES, REPORTS, AND AUDITS 
SEC. 11. (a) The Commission shall make a continuing study of 
the operation and administration of this Act, including surveys and 
reports on health benefits plans available to employees and on the 
experience of such plans. 
(b) The Commission shall include provisions in contracts with car-
riers which would require carriers to (1) furnish such reasonable 
reports as the Commission determines to be necessary to enable it to 
carry out its functions under this Act, and (2) permit the Commission 
and representatives of the General Accounting Office to examine 
records of the carriers as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of 
this Act. 
(c) Each Government department, agency, and independent estab-
lishment shall keep such records, make such certifications, and furnish 
the Commission with such information and reports as may be necessary 
to enable the Commission to carry out its functions under this Act. 
REPORTS TO CONGRESS 
SEC. 12. The Commission shall transmit to the Congress annually a 
report concerning the operation of this Act. 
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
SEC. 13. The Chairman of the Commission shall appoint a com-
mittee composed of five members who shall serve without compensa-
tion, to advise the Commission regarding matters of concern to em-
ployees under this Act. Each member of such committee shall be an 
employee enrolled under this Act or an elected officer of an employee 
V organization. 
SEC. 14. (a) The Chairman of the Commission is authorized to ap-
point in grade 18 of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 
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note. 
with respect to retirement, life insurance, and health benefits pro-
grams as the Commission shall prescribe. Such positions shall be in 
addition to the number of positions otherwise authorized by law to be 
placed in such grade. 
(b) The rate of basic compensation of the Executive Director of 
the United States Civil Service Commission shall be $19,000 per 
annum. 
J U R I S D I C T I O N O F COUKl'S 
SEC. 15. The district courts of the United States shall have original 
jurisdiction, concurrent with the Court of Claims, of any civil action 
or claim against the United States founded upon this Act. 
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KFrECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 16. The provisions of this Act rehitiiiff to the enrollment of 
employees and annuitants in health benefits plans and the withhold-
ing and payment of contributions shall take effect on the first day 
of the first pay period which begins on or after July 1,1960. 
Appcoved September 28, 1959. 
Public Law 86-383 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for Mutual Security and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1960, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, namely: 
September 28, 1959 
[H. R. 8385] 
Mutual Security 
Appropriation Act, 
1960. 
TITLE I—MUTUAL SECURITY 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the 
provisions of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, to remain 
available until June 30, 1960, unless otherwise specified herein, as 
follows: 
Military assistance: For assistance authorized by section 103^^a) to 
carry out the purposes of chapter I (including administrative expenses 
as authorized by section 103(b), which shall not exceed $25,000,000 for 
the fiscal year 1960, and purchase for replacement only of passenger 
motor vehicles for use abroad), $1,300,000,000; 
Defense support: For assistance authorized by section 131(b), 
$650,000,000, and in addition for Defense support for Spain, author-
ized by section 131 (b), $45,000,000, exclusive oi technical cooperation; 
Development Loan Fund: For advances to the Development Loan 
Fund as authorized by section 203, $550,000,000, to remain available 
until expended; 
Technical cooperation, general authorization: For assistance author-
ized by section 304, $150,000,000; 
United Nations expanded program of technical assistance and 
related fund: For contributions authorized by section 306(a), 
$30,000,000; 
Technical cooperation programs of the Organization of American 
States: For contributions authorized by section 306(b), $1,200,000; 
Special assistance, general authorization: For assistance author-
ized by section 400 (a), $245,000,000; 
Special assistance, special authorization: For assistance authorized 
by section 400(c) in the planning for construction of the American 
Research Hospital for Children in Poland at the University of 
Krakow, the equivalent of $50,000 in local currencies; 
Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration: For con-
tributions authorized by section 405(a), $7,371,000: Provided, 
That 
no funds appropriated in this title shall be used to assist directly in 
the migration to any nation in the Western Hemisphere of any person 
68 Stat. 832. 
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