'(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), any appointment under this section shall be for a period of four years, with reappointment permissible for successive like periods, except that persons so appointed or reappointed shall be subject to removal by the Administrator for cause. "(c) The Administrator may designate a member of the Chaplain Service of the Veterans' Administration as Director, Chaplain Service, for a period of two years, subject to removal by the Administrator for cause. Redesignation under this subsection may be made for successive like periods. An individual designated as Director, Chaplain Service, shall at the end of his period of service as Director revert to the position, grade, and status which he held immediately prior to being designated Director, Chaplain Service, and all service as Director, Chaplain Service, shall be creditable as service in the former position.". (b) The table of contents of chapter 73 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking out "4103. Appointments and compensation." and inserting in lieu thereof: "4103. Office of the Chief Medical Director.". (c) Section 2 of the Act of July 31, 1894, as amended (5 U.S.C. 62), shall not apply to any individual appointed, before January 1, 1964, as Chief Medical Director under section 4103 of title 38, United States Code; but section 212 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (5 U.S.C. 59a), shall apply, in accordance with its terms, to any such individual. SEO. 118. Section 4107 of title 38, United States Code, relating to grades and pay scales for certain positions within the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration, is amended to read as follows: "§ 4107. Grades and pay scales "(a) The per annum full-pay scale or ranges for positions provided in section 4103 of this title, other than Chief Medical Director and Deputy Chief Medical Director, shall be as follows: "SECTION 4103 SCHEDULE "Assistant Chief Medical Director, $24,500. "Medical Director, $21,445 minimum to $24,445 maximum. "Director of Nursing Service, $16,460 minimum to $21,590 maximum. "Director, Chaplain Service, $16,460 minimum to $21,590 maximum. "Chief Pharmacist, $16,460 minimum to $21,590 maximum. "Chief Dietitian, $16,460 minimum to $21,590 maximum. "(b) (1) The grades and per annum full-pay ranges for positions provided in paragraph (1) of section 4104 of this title shall be as follows: "PHYSICIAN AND DENTIST SCHEDULE "Director grade, $18,935 minimum to $24,175 maximum. "Bull grade, $10,200 minimum to $13,395 maximum. Associate grade, $8,550 minimum to $11,205 maximum. "NURSE SCHEDULE Vedstant Director grade, $14,170 minimum to $18,580 maximum. "Chief grade, $12,075 minimum to $15,855 maximum. "Senior grade, $10,200 minimum to $13,395 maximum. "Intermediate grade, $8,500 minimum to $11,205 maximum. "Full grades $6.210 minimum to $9,415 maximum. Vasciate rade, $6,315 minimum to $8,205 maximum. "Junior grade, $0,000 minimum to $7,170 maximum. 5. No person may hold the director grade unless he is serving as a director of a hospital, domiciliary, center, or outpatient clinic (independent). No person may hold the executive grade unless he holds the position of chief of staff at a hospital, center, or outpatient clinic (independent), or the position of clinic drvector as an outpatient clinic, or comparable position.". KORNION SARVIOR OFFICERS; STAFF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES St&c. EUA, Nection 412 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. Nic), is amended to read as follows: Sec. 12 The rates of solvensation of persons, emvicvoi la he dor mittees established pursuŁAT TO SECTII SI of the So. Canseverior sve damae the Allotment 42 16572911 Sha", de încmacsać la gomanned aeng ee nearly as may be practicabile to the increases provided ly sector 70o of shie Act for corresponding rates of compensator, în the scopropriete sebøðule ot scale of pay. VIS LLANPOUS PPO ISIÓNS SEC. 123. Section 504 of the Federal Salary Reform Act of 1965 76 Ster Na 5 U.S.C. 1173) is amended by adding at the end thereat the following new subsection: *(d) The rate of basic compensation, estebished under ts soon and received by any officer or employee immediately prior to the effar we dete vidja a statutory increase in the compensation schedules of the salary systopix são fad in subsection (a) shall be initially adjusted on the effective date of each ** compensation schedules in accordance with conversion rules and monterfone prescribed by the President or by such agener or agencies as he may devienste ** ABSORPTION OF COSTS SEC. 124. (a) The cost of not less than 10 per centum of the aggregate amenn of the increases in compensation provided by this title for the fiscal yvwr 1983 shall be absorbed by the departments, agencies, establishments, and corpora tions in the executive branch; and no amount beyond the additional sum for such compensation increases proposed in the budget for the fiscal year 1965 is authorized to be appropriated by any provision of this Act. The total amount of such absorption shall be allocated by the Bureau of the Budget among such departments, agencies, establishments, and corporations in such manner and to such extent as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget deems appropriate in the light of their essential functions. (b) Pursuant to the objective of this section, heads of the executive branch activities concerned are directed to review with meticulous care each vacancy resulting from voluntary resignation, retirement, or death and to determine whether the duties of the position can be reassigned to other employees or whether the position can be abolished without seriously affecting the execution of essential functions. (c) Nothing contained in subsection (a) of this section shall be held or considered to require (1) the separation from the service of any individual by reduction in force or other personnel action or (2) the placing of any individual in a leave-without-pay status. TITLE II-FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE SALARIES SEC. 201. This title may be cited as the "Federal Legislative Salary Act of 1964". SEC. 202. (a) Each officer or employee in or under the legislative branch of the Government whose rate of compensation is increased by section 5 of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1946 shall be paid additional compensation in an amount equal to the greater of the following amounts, as applicable: (1) an amount equal to 32 per centum of his gross rate of compensation (basic compensation plus additional compensation authorized by law) in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this section plus 1 per centum of such gross rate for each whole multiple, or part of a multiple, of $500 basic compensation; or (2) an amount equal to 5 per centum of such gross rate. (b) The total annual compensation in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this section of each officer or employee of the House of Representatives, whose compensation is disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives and is not increased by reason of any other provision of this title, shall be increased by an amount which is equal to the amount of the increase provided by subsection (a) of this section in that gross rate which is nearest in amount to the total annual compensation of such officer or employee. (c) Each of the limitations on gross rate per thousand and gross rate per hour per person provided by applicable law on the effective date of this section with respect to the folding of speeches and pamphlets for the House of Repre sentatives shall be increased by 7 per centum. The amount of each increase under this subsection shall be computed to the nearest cent, counting one-half cent and over as a whole cent. (d) The additional compensation provided by this section shall be considered a part of basic compensation for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2251 and the following). (6) Section 202 (e) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended (1.8.C. 72a (e) ), is amended (1) by striking out "$8,880" where it first appears in such subsection and Inserting in lieu thereof "the highest amount which, together with additional compensation authorized by law, will not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended,”; and (2) by striking out "SS,880" at the second place where it appears in such subsection and inserting in lien thereof "the highest amount which, together with additional compensation authorized by law, will not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended". (2) (1) This subsection is enacted as an exercise of the rule making power of the House of Representatives with full recognition of the constitutional right of the House of Representatives to change the rule amended by this subsection at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House of Representatives. (2) Cla ise 28(C) of Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended (A) by striking out "SSSSO" where it first appears in such claue and Inserting in Hen thereof "the highest amount which, together with addi |