An Act to establish the District of Columbia Bail Agency, and for other purposes
PL 89-519 (H.R.15860), enacted 07/26/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-519-JULY 26, 1966 
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Public Law 89-519 
AN ACT 
July 26,1966 
To establish the District of Columbia Bail Agency, and for other purposes. 
[H.R. 15860] 
D.C. Bail 
Agency Act. 
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 "District of Columbia Bail Agency Act". 
SEC. 2. There is hereby created for the District of Columbia the 
District of Columbia Bail Agency (hereinafter referred to as the 
"agency") which shall secure pertinent data and provide for any 
judicial officer in the District of Columbia reports containing verijfied 
information concerning any individual with respect to whom a bail 
determination is to be made. 
SEC. 3. As used in this Act— 
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Definitions 
(1) the term "judicial officer" means, unless otherwise indi-
cated, the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States 
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the Dis-
trict of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States District Court 
for the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Court of 
General Sessions, and the Juvenile Court of the District of Colum-
bia (but only with respect to proceedings under Section 11-1556 
of the D.C. Code) or any justice or judge of such courts or a 
United States Commissioner; and 
(2) The term "bail determination" means any order by a judi-
cial officer respecting the terms and conditions of release (includ-
ing any order setting the amount of bail bond or any other kind 
of security given to assure appearance in court) of— 
(A) any person arrested in the District of Columbia, or 
(B) any material witness in any criminal proceeding in a 
court referred to in paragraph (1), 
for trial or sentencing or pending appeal. 
SEC. 4. (a) The agency shall, except when impracticable, interview 
any person detained pursuant to law or charged with an offense in the 
District of Columbia who is to appear before a United States Com-
missioner or whose case arose in or is before any court named in sec-
tion 3(1) of this Act. 
Such interview when requested by a judicial 
officer shall also be undertaken with respect to any person charged 
with intoxication or traffic violation. The agency shall seek independ- 
Report, 
ent verification of information obtained during the interview, shall 
secure any such person's prior criminal record which shall be made 
available by the Metropolitan Police Department, and shall prepare 
a written report of such information for submission to the appropriate 
judicial officer. 
The agency shall present such report with or without 
a recommendation for release on personal recognizance, personal bond, 
or other nonfinancial conditions, but with no other recommendation, 
to the appropriate judicial officer and shall provide copies of such re-
port to the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, to 
the Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia (if pertinent) 
and to counsel for the person concerning whom the report is made. 
The report shall include but not be limited to information concerning 
the person accused, his family, his community ties, residence, employ-
ment, prior criminal record if any, and may include such additional 
verified information as may become available to the agency. 
(b) The agency when requested by any appellate court or a judge 
or justice thereof, or by any other judicial officer, shall furnish a 
report as provided in section 4(a) respecting any person whose case is 
pending before any such appellate court or judicial officer or in whose 
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behalf an application for a bail determination shall have been 
submitted. 
(c) Such information as may be contained in the agency's files or 
presented in its report or which shall be divulged during the course of 
any hearing shall be used only for the purpose of a bail determination 
and shall otherwise be confidential except for members of the agency 
staff, and such members shall not be subject to subpena concerning 
information in their possession and such information shall not be the 
subject of court process for use in any other proceeding. 
(d) The preparation by the agency and the submission of its report 
as provided in section 4 shall be accomplished at the earliest prac-
ticable opportunity. 
(e) A judicial officer in making a bail determination shall consider 
the agency's report and its accompanying recommendation, if any. 
The judicial officer may impose such terms and set such conditions 
upon release as shall appear warranted by the facts presented, except 
that such judicial officer may not establish any term or condition for 
release not otherwise authorized by law (including the Bail Reform 
Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-465)). 
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SEC. 5. (a) The agency shall function under authority of and be 
Membership. 
respousible to an executive committee of five members of which three 
shall constitute a quorum. 
The executive committee shall be composed 
of the respective chief judges of the United States Court of Appeals 
for the District of (^olumbia Circuit, the United States District Court 
for the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Court of 
Appeals, the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, or if 
circumstances may require, the designee of any such chief judge; and 
a fifth member who shall be selected by such chief judges. 
Director. 
^]^^ Witliiu thirty days of the date of enactment of this Act, the 
executive committee shall meet and shall appoint a Director of the 
Agency who shall be a member of the bar of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 6. The Director of the agency shall be responsible for the super-
vision and execution of the duties of the agency. 
The Director shall 
receive such compensation as may be set by the executive committee 
but not in excess of that amount classified as GS-1^ in the Classifi-
nte, p. 288. 
catiou Act of 1949, as amended. 
The Director shall hold office at the 
pleasure of the executive committee. 
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^^^" ^" "^^^^ Director, subject to the approval of the executive com-
ciassification. 
mittee, shall employ a chief assistant and such assisting and clerical 
staff and may make assignments of such agency personnel as may be 
necessary properly to conduct the business of the agency. The staff 
of the agency, other than clerical, shall be drawn from law students, 
graduate students, or such other available sources as may be approved 
by the executive committee. 
The chief assistant to the Director shall 
receive compensation as may be set by the executive committee, but in 
an amount not in excess of that classified as GS-11 in the Classification 
Act of 1949, as amended, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the 
executive committee. All other employees of the agency shall receive 
compensation as set by the executive committee, but in amounts not in 
excess of that classified as GS-7 in said Classification Act; salaries of 
clerical personnel shall be set at levels comparable to those allowed in 
the offices of the Legal Aid Agency and the United States Attorney 
for the District of Columbia. 
From time to time, the Director, sub-
ject to the approval of the executive committee, may set merit and 
longevity salary increases. 
Report to execu- 
gj,^. 8. The Direotor shall on June 15 of each year submit to the 
tive committee 
Congress, etc' 
cxecutive committee a report as to the agency's administration of its 
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responsibilities for the ;previous period of June 1 through May 31, a 
copy of which report will be transmitted by the executive committee 
to the Congress of the United States, and to the Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia. 
The Director shall include in his report, to be 
prepared as directed by the Commissioners of the District of Co-
lumbia, a statement of financial condition, revenues, and expenses for 
the past June 1 through May 31 period. 
SEC. 9. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, 
there are authorized to be appropriated to the District of Columbia 
such sums as may be necessary, but not to exceed $130,000 in any one 
fiscal year, which shall be disbursed by the Commissioners of the Dis-
trict of Columbia. 
Budget estimates for the agency shall be prepared 
by the Director and shall be subject to the approval of the executive 
committee. 
SEC. 10. The Bail Reform Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-465) shall 
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apply to any person detained pursuant to law or charged with an 
offense in the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 11. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, this Act 
shall take effect on the date of its enactment. 
(b) Sections 6, 7, and 8 shall take effect on the date of enactment 
Effective dates. 
of the first Act appropriating moneys to carry out the purposes of this 
Act which is enacted after the date of enactment of this Act, and 
section 4 shall take effect on the ninetieth day after the date of enact-
ment of said first appropriation Act. 
Approved July 26, 1966. 
Public Law 89-520 
AN ACT 
July 26, 1966 
To make further provision for the retirement of the Comptroller General. 
[s. 3150] 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 303 of ^^^"e^ai*''"^^^' 
the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, as amended (31 U.S.C. 43), is 
Further retire-
hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following ">^"* provisions. 
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paragraph: 
"Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph of this section, any per-
son appointed to the Office of Comptroller General after January 1, 
1966, and who at the time of his appointment is or has been subject to 
the i^rovisions of the Civil Service Retirement Act, shall be subject to 
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all of the provisions of that Act, unless he shall in writing elect to be note 
subject to the provisions of the preceding paragraph of this section. 
Such election may be made at any time, but not later than sixty days 
after the expiration of the first ten years of service as Comptroller 
General, and shall be irrevocable. 
Any Comptroller General making 
such an election under this para'graph shall be entitled to a refund of 
the lump-sum credit to his account in the Civil Service retirement and 
disability fund, but shall receive no benefits under the Civil Service 
Retirement Act." 
SEC. 2. Section 319 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, as 
Dependents-
amended (31 U.S.C. 43b), is hereby amended by substituting a colon ^"73'staf.'i9 7. 
for the period at the end of subsection (a) and adding the following: 
'•'•Provided^ That in the case of a Comptroller General who elects m 
accordance with the third paragraph of section 303 of this Act to be 
subject to the provisions of the second paragraph of such section, the 
election permitted by this section may be made within sixty days after 
the making of the election permitted by the third paragraph of section 
303." 
Approved July 26, 1966.