Dickman, Neil, assistant Corporation counsel. 316 Ehrlich, Stanley, District of Columbia Personnel Office.. 73 Murphy, Joseph, director, District of Columbia Department of Motor 65 Raeder, Albert O., executive assistant, Firefighters Association... 222 Wallach, Maximilian, superintendent, District of Columbia Department Washington, Walter E., Mayor-Commissioner, District of Columbia Whitney, Alan J., executive vice president, International Brotherhood of 253 254 Police Officers... Prepared statement, with attachments. Arata, Clarence A., executive vice president, Metropolitan Washington Beall, J. Glenn, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maryland, prepared statement.. Bureau of Labor Statistics press release, June 16, 1974: "Autumn 1973 Urban Family Budgets and Comparative Indexes for Selected Urban Price, Robert N., vice president and general counsel, Peoples Life Insur- District of Columbia government material concerning pay increases_ District of Columbia government report on H.R. 12832. Minimum and maximum salaries paid police privates by cities over 500,000 319 70 POLICE, FIREMEN, AND TEACHERS SALARIES; QUALIFICATION OF EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL; REGULATION OF INSURANCE; MOTOR VEHICLE RESPONSIBILITY; AND CREATION OF A LAW REVISION COMMISSION THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1974 COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, U.S. SENATE, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice at 9 a.m., in room 6226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (chairman) presiding. Present: Senator Eagleton. Staff present: Robert Harris, staff director and general counsel; and Colbert I. King, minority staff director. The CHAIRMAN. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This morning we are holding hearings on a number of bills, several of which have already been passed by the House of Representatives. These include bills relating to the interstate agreement on qualification of educational personnel, the regulation of insurance companies, the Motor Vehicle Responsibility Act, and to create a law revision commission. We are also holding a hearing on the proposed pay increases for police, firemen, and teachers. These pay increases have been the subject of hearings by the House District Committee, and while the bills they are working on are not yet before this committee, the witnesses may refer to them as though they were. I wish to announce that at 10 a.m. I shall adjourn this hearing for a few minutes in order to file and hopefully bring before the Senate for approval the District of Columbia Campaign Finance Reform and Conflict of Interest Act. I now place in the record copies of the bills on which we are holding this hearing. These bills are: S. 2829-To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 to increase salaries. H.R. 342-To authorize the District of Columbia to enter into the Interstate Agreement on Qualification of Educational Personnel. H.R. 7218-To improve the laws relating to the regulation of insurance companies in the District of Columbia. H.R. 5686-To amend the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act of 1925. H.R. 12832-To create a Law Revision Commission for the District of Columbia. [The bills referred to follow :] 93D CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 2829 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES DECEMBER 19, 1973 Mr. BEALL (for himself and Mr. MATHIAS) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia A BILL To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 to increase salaries, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That section 101 of the District of Columbia Police and 4 Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (D.C. Code, sec. 4-823) is 5 amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 6 "(c) (1) That effective on the first day of the first pay 7 period beginning on or after January 1, 1974, the annual 8 rate of basic compensation of the officers and members in 9 active service on the effective date of the District of Colum10 bia Police and Firemen's Salary Act Amendments of 1973 11 under the salary schedule in subsection (a) shall be increased 2 1 by 15 per centum, and for each succeeding calendar year the 2 percentage increase shall not be less than the percentage 3 change, if any, of the annual Consumer Price Index as issued 4 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the District of Colum5 bia standard metropolitan statistical area, and in no case 6 shall the basic rates of compensation of such officers and 7 members be less than the basic rates of compensation of of8 ficers and members in police and fire departments of any 9 city of comparable size in the United States. 10 "(2) The Commissioner of the District of Columbia 11 shall issue such regulations as are necessary to carry out 12 the provisions of this subsection. 13 "(d) The Commissioner of the District of Columbia, in 14 the case of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire De partment of the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the 16 Treasury, in the case of the Executive Protective Service, 17 and the Secretary of the Interior, in the case of the United 18 States Park Police force, shall "(1) establish eligibility requirements for, and "(2) pay to any officer or member other than an officer or member in salary class 10 or 11 of the salary schedule contained in section 101 of the District of Co 23 lumbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, who 24 25 (A) is in the force, department, or service under their jurisdiction, and (B) meets such eligibility requirements, |