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2 titled 'An Act to provide that the Board of Education of the 3 District of Columbia shall have sole authority to regulate the 4 vacation periods and annual leave of absence of certain school 5 officers and employees of the Board of Education of the Dis6 trict of Columbia' (66 Stat. 14), as amended, shall apply to 7 employees of the Board of Education whose salaries are fixed 8 in salary classes 1 through 14, inclusive, under this Act." (12) Section 16 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31

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"SEC. 16. On and after the effective date of the District

12 of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act Amendments of 1972, the 13 Act entitled 'An Act to provide cumulative sick and 14 emergency leave with pay for teachers and attendance of15 ficers in the employ of the Board of Education of the District 16 of Columbia, and for other purposes' (63 Stat. 842), as 17 amended, shall apply to employees of the Board whose 18 salaries are fixed in salary class 15."

19 SEC. 103. (a) The third paragraph under the paragraph 20 beginning with the side heading "FOR ALLOWANCE TO 21 PRINCIPALS:", under the center heading "PUBLIC SCHOOLS." in the first section of the Act entitled "An Act

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1 purposes' (35 Stat. 291; D.C. Code, sec. 31-609) is

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"Effective September 1, 1972, the salaries of all em

4 ployees in salary class 15 and such other employees who

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are paid on a ten-month basis whose services commence with 6 the opening of school and who shall perform their duties, 7 shall begin on the 1st day of September and shall be paid 8 in twenty-four semimonthly installments. The first payment 9 shall be made on the 1st day of October, or as near that 10 date as practicable; and the second payment shall be made 11 fifteen days thereafter or as near that date as practicable. 12 Subsequent payments shall be on the first and sixteenth 13 days of the month or as near those dates as practicable. The 14 salaries of other employees in salary class 15 shall begin 15 when they enter upon their duties."

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16 (b) The first sentence in the fourth paragraph under 17 the paragraph beginning with the side heading "FOR ALLOWANCE TO PRINCIPALS:" under the center heading 19 "PUBLIC SCHOOLS." in the first section of such Act 20 (D.C. Code, sec. 31-630), is amended to read as follows: "Effective September 1, 1972, the following rules for

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are established: Compensations of all employees in salary class 15 and such other employees who are paid on a ten

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1 month basis shall be paid in twenty-four semimonthly in

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SEC. 104. Section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to pro4 vide educational employees of the District of Columbia with 5 leave of absence, with part pay, for purposes of educational 6 improvement, and for other purposes" (54 Stat. 349), as 7 amended (D.C. Code, sec. 31-635), is amended by strik8 ing out "or equal to the largest amount to which any em9 ployee in the salary class of elementary and secondary 10 school teachers would be entitled if given educational leave, 11 whichever is less, either" and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the word "such".

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SEC. 105. (a) (1) Effective on the first day of the first 14 pay period beginning on or after September 1, 1973, each 15 rate of compensation in the salary schedule in section 1 of 16 the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955 (D.C. 17 Code, sec. 1501) in effect on the day next preceding such 18 effective date shall be increased by the per centum rise in the price index between August, 1972 and August, 1973, 20 adjusted to the nearest one-tenth of 1 per centum: Provided, 21 That no such rate of compensation after such increase, ex22 cept the rate of compensation prescribed for salary class 1A, 23 shall exceed the rate of basic pay for level V of the Execu24 tive Schedule contained in subchapter II of chapter 53 of

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of compensation prescribed for salary class 1A after such in

crease shall not exceed the rate of basic pay for level III of 4 such Executive Schedule.

5 (2) Effective on such effective date, each pay rate in

6 the schedule in section 13 (a) of such Act (D.C. Code,

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sec. 31-1542 (a)) in effect on the day next preceding such 8 effective date shall be increased by the per centum rise in

9 such price index, adjusted to the nearest one-tenth of 1 per 10 centum.

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(b) For purposes of this section, the term "price index" 12 shall mean the Consumer Price Index (all items-Washing13 ton, District of Columbia, Standard Metropolitan Statistical 14 Area) published monthly and priced quarterly in February, 15 May, August, and November by the Bureau of Labor 16 Statistics.

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SEC. 106. Except as otherwise provided in section 105, 18 the effective date of this title and the amendments made by 19 this title shall be the first day of the first pay period begin

20 ning on or after September 1, 1972.

21 TITLE II-REVISIONS IN RETIREMENT BENEFITS

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FOR SCHOOLTEACHERS AND OFFICERS

SEC. 201. The Act entitled "An Act for the retirement

24 of public schoolteachers in the District of Columbia", ap25 proved August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 875) is amended as 26 follows:

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tion 5(b) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31-725 (b) (1))

are amended to read as follows:

"(1) A reduced annuity and an annuity after death 5 payable to the surviving widow or widower of such teacher. 6 The life annuity of a teacher making such election, or any 7 portion of such annuity designated by the teacher in writing 8 for such purposes at the time of retirement, shall be reduced

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by 24 per centum of so much thereof as does not exceed 10 $3,600 and by 10 per centum of so much thereof as exceeds 11 $3,600. The widow or widower of a teacher making such 12 election shall be entitled to an annuity equal to 55 per cen13 tum of such life annuity, or designated portion thereof: 14 Provided, That if a retired teacher who has elected a reduced

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annuity as provided in this paragraph or in subsection (d)

of this section dies and is survived by a widow or widower 17 whom he or she married after retirement, such widow or

widower is entitled to an annuity in an amount which would have been paid had the teacher been married to the widow or widower at the time of retirement, but only if (A) such widow or widower was married to such individual for at least two years immediately preceding the teacher's

death, or is the mother or father of issue of such marriage;

and (B) such widow or widower elects this annuity instead

of any other survivor benefit to which he or she may be

entitled under this Act or another retirement system for