An Act to amend the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959 so as to authorize certain teachers employed by the Board of Education of the District of Columbia to participate in a health benefits plan established pursuant to such act and to amend the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 so as to extend insurance coverage to such teachers, to provide for retroactive salary increases for certain civilian employees of the Federal Government, and for other purposes
PL 88-631 (H.R.5932), enacted 10/06/1964

78 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 88-631-OCT. 6, 1964 
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DONATIONS, EXPENDITURES, ACCOUNTS 
SEC. 8. (a) The Commission is authorized to accept donations of 
personal services or property to assist in carrying out the purposes of 
this Act. The Commission may secure supplies, services, make con-
tracts, and exercise those powers generally that it deems necessary 
to enable it to carry out effectively and in the public interest the 
purposes of this Act. 
(b) Expenditures of the Commission shall be paid by an executive 
officer designated from among its membership, who shall keep com-
plete and accurate records of such expenditures and who shall account 
for all funds received by the Commission. 
Such accounts shall be 
subject to audit by the General Accounting Office of the United States. 
AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 9. There is authorized to be appropriated annually, through 
the Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriation 
Acts, not to exceed the sum of $25,000 to carry out the provisions of 
this Act. 
Approved October 6, 1964. 
Public Law 88-631 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959 so as to authorize 
certain teachers employed by the Board of Education of the District of Colum-
bia to participate in a health benefits plan established pursuant to such Act, to 
amend the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Act of 1954 so as to extend 
insurance coverage to such teachers, to provide for retroactive salary increases 
for certain civilian employees of the Federal Government, and for other 
purposes. 
October 6, 1964 
[H. R. 5932] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3(a) 
of the Federal Emi)loyees Health Benefits Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 710; 
5 U.S.C. 3002(a)) is amended by striking out the period at the end 
thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: ": Provided, That 
no teacher in the employ of the Board of Education of the District of 
Columbia, whose salary is established by section 1 of the District of 
Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 521), as amended 
(sec. 31-1501, D.C. Code, 1961 edition), shall be excluded on the basis 
of the fact that such teacher is serving under a temporary appointment 
if such teacher has been so employed by such Board for a period or 
periods totaling not less than two school years." 
SEC. 2. Section 2(a) of the Federal Employees' Group Life Insur-
ance Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 736), as amended (5 U.S.C. 2091(a)), is 
amended by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in 
lieu thereof the following: "and in no event shall any teacher in the 
emploj^ of the Boiard of Education of the District of Columbia, whose 
salary is established by section 1 of the District of Columbia Teachers' 
Salary Act of 1955 (69 Stat. 521), as amended (sec. 31-1501, D.C. 
Code, 1961 edition), be excluded on the basis of the fact that such 
teacher is serving under a temporary appointment if such teacher has 
been so employed by such Board for a period or periods totaling not 
less than two school years." 
D.C. temporary 
teachers. 
Health and life 
insurance bene-
fits. 
Ante, 
p. 882. 
Eligibility. 
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[78 STAT. 
Ante, 
p. 435. 
Federal Govern-
ment and D.C. 
employees. 
Retroactive sal-
ary increase. 
Ante, 
p. 428. 
Ante, 
p. 430. 
Ante, 
p. 432. 
Effective dates. 
SEC. 3. (a) Title V of the Government Employees Salary Eeform 
Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-426), is amended by adding a new section, 
to read as follows: 
"SEC. 503. (a) Notwithstanding section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, 
as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), the rates of compensation of officers and 
employees of the Federal Government and of the municipal govern-
ment of the District of Columbia whose rates of compensation are fixed 
by administrative action pursuant to law and are not otherwise 
increased by this Act are hereby authorized to be increased, effective on 
or after the effective date prescribed by section 501 (a), by amounts not 
to exceed the increases provided by this Act for corresponding rates of 
compensation in the appropriate schedule, scale, or level of pay. 
"(b) Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to authorize 
any increase in the rates of compensation of officers and employees 
whose rates of compensation are fixed and adjusted from time to time 
as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with 
prevailing rates or practices. 
"(c) Nothing contained in this section shall affect the authority con-
tained in any law pursuant to which rates of compensation may be fixed 
by administrative action." 
(b) Section 508 of title 28, United States Code, as amended by sec-
tion 306(a)(1) of the Federal Executive Salary Act of 1964, is 
amended by striking out "subsection (f)" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"subsections (f) and (g)". 
(c) Section 306(a) (2) of the Federal Executive Salary Act of 1964 
is amended by striking out "section 303(f)" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "section 303 (f) and (g)." 
(d) The third sentence of section 2 of the Act of May 29, 1959, as 
amended by section 306(h) of the Federal Executive Salary Act of 
1964, is amended by striking out "subsection (f)" and inserting in 
lieu thereof "subsections (f) and (g)". 
(e) Section 308 of the Federal Executive Salary Act of 1964 is 
amended by inserting after "Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 248),", 
in the second sentence, the following: "in section 121 of title 2 of the 
Panama Canal Zone Code (76A Stat. 15),". 
SEC. 4. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall take effect upon the 
first day of the first month which begins not later than the sixtieth day 
after the date of its enactment, except that section 3 of this Act shall 
take effect as of the first day of the first pay period which began on or 
after July 1,1964. 
Approved October 6, 1964. 
October 6, 1964 
[H. R. 10204] 
Public Law 88-632 
AN ACT 
To extend the Osage mineral reservation for an indefinite period. 
Osage Indians. 
Mineral estate. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3 of 
tlie Act of June 24, 1938 (52 Stat. 1034), which extends the mineral 
estate reserved to the Osage Tribe by the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 
Stat. 539), until April 8, 1983, unless otherwise provided by Act of 
Congress, is hereby amended by striking the word "unless" and sub-
stituting therefor '"and thereafter until". 
Approved October 6, 1964.