PUBLIC LAW 324-81ST CONGRESS] [H. R. 2437] AN ACT 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. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That article II of title I of 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, be and the same hereby is amended by striking out the following words and figures. "CLASS 13-PRINCIPALS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WITH SIXTEEN OR MORE ROOMS, AND PRINCIPALS IN AMERICANIZATION SCHOOLS "A basic salary of $4,300 per year, with an annual increase in salary of $100 for ten years, or until a maximum salary of $5,300 per year is reached." and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "CLASS 13-PRINCIPALS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND PRINCIPALS IN AMERICANIZATION SCHOOLS "A basic salary of $4,300 per year, with an annual increase in salary of $100 for ten years, or until a maximum salary of $5,300 per year is reached." SEC. 2. Paragraph (ap) of section 6 of title III of said Act is hereby amended by inserting the following at the end of said paragraph: "No longevity increases for placement as provided in this paragraph shall be granted to any probationary or temporary teacher, librarian, research assistant, counselor, or instructor in the teachers colleges appointed after June 30, 1949, to group C in salary classes 1 to 8, inclusive, in article I of title I, unless credit for such increases is based upon approved teaching or other service rendered after the master's degree had been conferred upon the appointee: Provided, That this limitation on placement credit shall not apply to appointments made from current eligible lists effective on July 1, 1949." SEC. 3. Section 6 of title III of said Act is further amended by inserting at the end thereof a new paragraph to be lettered “(ar) and to read as follows: "Every permanent and probationary teacher, librarian, research assistant, counselor, and instructor in the teachers colleges in the employ of the Board of Education on June 30, 1947, who either possessed a master's degree on June 30, 1947, or shall have received a master's degree during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, and whose salary during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948, was less than $3,500, shall be entitled to receive in lieu thereof a salary of $3,000 per annum plus longevity increases for placement in group C in salary classes 1 to 8, inclusive, in article I of title I, of $100 for each year of like service in the public schools of the District of Columbia acceptable to and approved by the Board of Education, including military leave and educational leave with part pay, subsequent to probationary appointment and prior to July 1, 1947, but for not more than the fifth year of such service, to be effective as of July 1, 1947, or on the first of the month immediately following the date on which the master's degree was conferred, whichever is later, and shall be entitled to receive annual increases thereafter in accordance with the provisions of sections 5 and 7 of this Act. The provisions of this paragraph shall not operate to reduce the amount of annual compensation of any teacher, librarian, research assistant, counselor, or instructor in the teachers colleges, below the amount of annual compensation received by him during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948." SEO. 4. (a) Paragraph (b) of section 21 of title V of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "After the effective date of this Act, the Act entitled 'An Act for the retirement of the public-school teachers in the District of Columbia', approved August 7, 1946, shall apply to permanent employees of the Board of Education whose salaries are fixed by this Act, and all references in said Act to the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1945, as amended, shall be interpreted to apply to this Act. Nothing in this subsection shall require the recomputation of the annuity of any person retired under the Act of August 7, 1946, prior to the effective date of this Act, or of any person retired prior to the effective date of the Act of August 7, 1946, whose annuity is computed in accordance with the provisions of that Act." (b) This section shall be effective as of July 1, 1947. SEC. 5. This Act except as otherwise provided herein shall become effective on July 1, 1948. Approved October 6, 1949. [PUBLIC LAW 353-818T CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 686—1ST SESSION] (H. R. 4381) AN ACT To provide cumulative sick and emergency leave with pay for teachers and attendance officers in the employ of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all teachers and attendance officers in the employ of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia shall be entitled to cumulative leave with pay for personal illness, presence of contagious disease or other death in the home, or pressing personal emergency, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the said Board of Education may prescribe. Such cumulative leave with pay shall be granted at the rate of one day for each month from September through June of each year, both inclusive. The total cumulation shall not exceed sixty days for probationary and permanent teachers and attendance officers, and the total cumulation shall not exceed ten days for temporary teachers and attendance officers. SEC. 2. In addition to the cumulative leave provided by the first section of this Act each probationary and permanent teacher shall be credited on July 1, 1949, with one day of leave with pay for each complete year of service in the public schools of the District of Columbia prior to July 1, 1949: Provided, That the total amount to be credited under the provisions of this section shall not exceed twenty days and shall be granted for the same purposes as leave with pay is provided in the first section of this Act. Attendance officers shall be credited on July 1, 1949, with all cumulative leave with pay to which they are entitled on June 30, 1949, under the provisions of section 18 of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947. The total cumulation of leave with pay allowable under this Act and the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947 shall not exceed sixty days, and no attendance officer shall be entitled to annual or sick leave with pay under the provisions of any other Act.. SEC. 3. Probationary and permanent teachers and attendance officers shall be entitled to use all leave to their credit when they are granted maternity leave by the Board of Education. SEC. 4. In cases of serious disability or ailments, and when required by the exigencies of the situation, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Board of Education may prescribe, the superintendent of schools may advance additional leave with pay not to exceed twenty days to every probationary or permanent teacher or attendance officer who may apply for such advanced leave. SEC. 5. In the event of separation from the service of any teacher or attendance officer who is indebted for unearned advanced leave, such teacher or attendance officer shall refund the amount of pay received for the period of such excess. If such teacher or attendance officer fails to make such refund, deductions therefor shall be made from any salary due him or from any amount standing to his credit under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of public school teachers in the District of Columbia", approved August 7, 1946. The provisions of this section shall not apply in cases of death, retirement for disability, or in the event that the teacher or attendance officer to whom leave with pay has been advanced is unable to return to duty because of disability. SEC. 6. The Board of Education is hereby authorized to employ substitute teachers and attendance officers for service during the absence of any teacher or attendance officer on leave with pay and to fix the rate of compensation to be paid such substitutes. SEC. 7. The Board of Education is hereby authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry this Act into effect. The term "teacher" used in this Act shall include all employees whose salaries are fixed by article I of title I of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947. The term "attendance officers" shall include all employees whose salaries are fixed by class 32 in article II of title I of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947. SEC. 8. There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, and any appropriations for the public schools of the District of Columbia for personal services are hereby made available for the payment of the substitutes provided for in section 6 of this Act. SEC. 9. The following parts of Acts are hereby repealed: (a) So much of section 14 of 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, as reads: "The said Board shall prescribe the amount to be deducted from the salary of any absent teacher for whom an annual substitute may perform service."; (b) Section 18 of 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; and (c) So much of the first section of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes", approved March 4, 1911 (36 Stat. 1395), under the subheading "District of Columbia", as reads: "Provided, That leave of absence of any regularly employed teacher shall not exceed thirty calendar days in any one school year, and for this period such teacher who may be absent shall be paid, in case the absence is due to personal illness, death in family, or quarantine on account of contagious disease, the salary of the position, less the amount paid to the substitute teacher, and any absence in excess of said thirty days or absence for cause other than herein specified shall be without compensation: Provided further, That all other employees of the Board of Education may, in the discretion of said Board, he granted not exceeding thirty days' leave of absence with pay in any one calendar year, and in the event of the absence of any janitor, assistant janitor, engineer, assistant engineer, or caretaker, at any time during school sessions the Board of Education is hereby authorized to appoint a substitute, who shall be paid the salary of the position in which employed, and the amount paid to such substitute shall be deducted from the salary of the absent employee." SEC. 10. This Act may be cited as "District of Columbia Teachers' Leave Act of 1949". SEC. 11. This Act shall become effective July 1, 1949. Approved October 13, 1949. |