Service Commission shall determine whether or not he may receive the benefits. In making its determination, the Commission shall give full consideration to the degree of hazard to which such officer or employee is subject in the performance of his duties, rather than the general duties of the class of the position held by the officer or employee. The bill proposes to make the same liberal retirement privileges available to other investigative, apprehending, and detaining officers and employees which were granted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1947 by Public Law 168. The heavy and frequently hazardous responsibilities in connection with the assignments of these employees warrants a more liberal retirement. Further, the bill would serve to encourage young men to enter into this necessary Government service.

It is estimated that the bill would include approximately 12,150 positions and would cost between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000.

Although no hearings were held on this legislation by this committee, testimony was completed in the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and representatives of the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, the Civil Service Commission, and others were unanimous in their approval.

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80TH CONGRESS 2d Session

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REPORT No. 1669

AMENDING THE ACT TO FIX AND REGULATE THE SALARIES OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL OFFICERS, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

JUNE 15, 1948.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. CAIN, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 2850)

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2850) to amend the act entitled "An act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," approved July 7, 1947, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.

The purposes intended to be accomplished by the bill are as follows: Section 1 provides a salary schedule without any change in the amounts of the salaries to be paid for principals in elementary schools. without reference to the limitation of 16 or more rooms which is in the present Teachers' Salary Act, leaving this determination to the Board of Education subject to the number of positions authorized in the annual District of Columbia appropriation acts. The effect is to provide that elementary school principalships be determined by the number of teachers and pupils supervised rather than by the number of rooms under the jurisdiction of the principal.

Section 2 provides that placement credit for salary purposes in group C shall not be granted to new teachers unless approved teaching service is rendered after the master's degree has been conferred upon the appointees. Teachers in the service of the Board of Education cannot receive salary advances in group C unless they possess a master's degree. This new section prevents teachers coming into the public school system from receiving salary considerations not accorded to teachers in the service of the Board of Education.

Section 3 provides for the granting of placement credit for salary purposes to teachers in the public schools who have a master's degree

and who received a salary less than $3,500 during the present fiscal year.

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This section proposes to pay all such teachers a base salary of $3,000 plus $100 for each year of like service in the public schools since probationary appointment up to a maximum of 5 years. section is intended to eliminate the discriminations against all such present teachers so far as possible as compared to new teachers who entered the service during the 1947-48 school year, and will affect about 140 teachers, costing approximately $22,000.

Section 4 corrects an oversight in the 1947 District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act by making the Teachers' Retirement Act applicable to all permanent employees of the Board of Education whose salaries are fixed by said act. The Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia has ruled that the language in section 21 of the 1947 Teachers' Salary Act makes the Teachers' Retirement Act applicable to temporary as well as permanent teachers. Temporary teachers are covered by the Civil Service Retirement Act and should be continued under that act in the opinion of both the Board of Education and the Board of Commissioners.

This bill has the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Board of Education of the District of Columbia.

AUTHORIZING TEMPORARY INCREASES IN THE SALARY RATES OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL OFFICERS, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WHOSE PAY IS FIXED AND REGULATED BY THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TEACHERS' SALARY ACT OF 1947

JUNE 15, 1948.—Ordered to be printed

Mr. CAIN, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT

To accompany S. 2851)

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2851) to authorize temporary increases in the salary rates of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia whose pay is fixed and regulated by the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.

The purpose of this bill is to grant to teachers and other employees in the public-school system of the District whose salaries are fixed by the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, a temporary increase in compensation, effective for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1948, at the rate of $200 a year for each such employee.

The basis for computing the rate of increase is as follows:

Salary rates for these employees were increased by the Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, and effective July 1, 1947, all these employees (except those few teachers who were, on June 30, 1947, without master's degrees and were earning more than $4,000 per annum) were given an increase in actual salaries paid of a minimum of $600 per annum, which included the temporary increase of $450 granted in 1946. The increases in salaries for these employees which were made effective July 1, 1947, in the view of the committee, brought about an adjustment of salaries commensurate with the cost of living at that time. The committee recognizes that the cost of living has increased in the past 12 months, and also is aware of the current thought that all employees should be given a sufficient increase in salaries to enable them. to meet the current living costs. The committee therefore considers

that an increase of $200 per annum on top of the adjustment in salaries of school employees made on July 1, 1947, would constitute an equitable adjustment.

Section 2 of the bill makes available appropriations to pay increased salaries resulting from enactment of the bill.

Section 3 of the bill makes it effective July 1, 1948, with the proviso that it shall not have any force or effect if, during the current session of the Congress, legislation under which a general pay increase for Federal employees is not enacted.

The approximate cost of this legislation is $720,000.

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