1 Maximum rates paid under the fire tax district arrangement in Montgomery. 2 Contemplating an increase in the near future. COMPARISON OF POLICE MINIMUM SALARY RATES FOR TWENTY-ONE CITIES OVER 500,000 POPULATION COMPARISON OF POLICE MAXIMUM SALARY RATES (EXCLUDING LONGEVITY RATES) FOR TWENTY-ONE CITIES COMPARISON OF FIRE FIGHTER MINIMUM SALARY RATES FOR TWENTY-ONE CITIES OVER 500,000 POPULATION COMPARISON OF FIRE FIGHTER MAXIMUM SALARY RATES (EXCLUDING LONGEVITY RATES) FOR TWENTY-ONE CITIES OVER 500,000 POPULATION A BILL To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, as amended, to increase salaries, to adjust pay alignment, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That section 101 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (D.C. Code, sec. 4–823) is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 101. The annual rates of basic compensation of the officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia shall be fixed in accordance with the following schedule of rates: SEC. 2. The rates of basic compensation of officers and members to whom the amendment made by section 1 of this Act applies shall be adjusted as follows: (1) Except as otherwise hereinafter provided in this section, each officer and member receiving basic compensation immediately prior to the effective date of this Act at one of the scheduled service rates of a class or subclass in the salary schedule in section 101 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 shall receive a rate of basic compensation at the corresponding rate in effect on and after the effective date of this Act. (2) Each private receiving basic compensation at service step 6 in any subclass in class 1, immediately prior to the effective date of this Act, and who has completed a minimum of ten years of continuous service as a private, including service in the Armed Forces of the United States, but excluding any period of time determined not to have been satisfactory service shall, in addition to receiving the corresponding rate provided for service step 6 by section 1 of this Act, receive a step increase (to be known as a longevity step increase) in an amount equivalent to the amount of increment between the service step rates provided by section 1 of this Act for his subclass in class 1: Provided, That any active service which each such private has rendered in excess of the ten years of continuous service will be credited to him for the next longevity step increase under the provisions of section 401 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958. (3) Each private receiving basic compensation immediately prior to the effective date of this Act at scheduled longevity step 7, longevity step 8, or longevity step 9 in any subclass of class 1, as the case may be, of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, shall receive a rate of basic compensation comprised of the rate provided for service step 6 in the respective subclasses in class 1, by section 1 of this Act, plus an amount derived for his longevity step by the application of a step increase for each of the three longevity steps in an amount equivalent to the rate of salary increment between the service steps in class 1 as provided by section 1 of this Act: Provided, That each such private serving in longevity step 7 or longevity step 8 of class 1, as the case may be, immediately prior to the effective date of this Act, and who completes thirteen years or sixteen years of continuous service as a private, including service in the Armed Forces of the United States, but excluding any period of time determined not to have been satisfactory service, shall receive additionally a step increase (to be known as a longevity step increase) upon completion of the thirteen-year period and also upon completion of the sixteen-year period in an amount equivalent to the amount of increment between the service step rates provided by section 1 of this Act for his subclass in class 1: Provided further, That any active service which each such private has rendered in excess of thirteen but less than sixteen years of continuous service will be credited to him for the next longevity step increase under provisions of section 401 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958. (4) Each officer or member receiving basic compensation immediately prior to the effective date of this Act at scheduled longevity step 7, longevity step 8, or longevity step 9, as the case may be, in classes 2 through 4, respectively, of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, shall receive a rate of basic compensation comprised of the rate provided for service step 4 in the respective classes 2 through 4 by section 1 of this Act, plus an amount derived for his longevity step by application of a step increase for each of the three longevity steps in an amount equivalent to the rate of salary increment between the service step rate in the respective classes 2 through 4 as provided by section 1 of this Act: Provided, That each officer or member serving in a maximum scheduled service step, longevity step 7, or longevity step 8, as the case may be, in classes 2 through 4, respectively, of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, shall receive additionally a longevity step increase if he has completed one hundred and fifty six calendar weeks of continuous active service, including service in the Armed Forces of the United States but excluding any period of time determined not to have been satisfactory service, in the step in which he was serving immediately prior to the effective date of this Act: Provided further, That any active service which each such officer or member has rendered in excess of the one hundred and fifty six calendar weeks of active service in the maximum service step, longevity step 7, or longevity step 8, as the case may be, in which he was serving immediately prior to the effective date of this Act will be credited to him for the next longevity step increase under the provisions of section 401 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958. (5) Each officer or member receiving basic compensation immediately prior to the effective date of this Act at scheduled longevity step 7 or longevity step 8, as the case may be, in classes 5 through 9, respectively, of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, shall receive a rate of basic compensation comprised of the rate provided for service step 4 in the respective classes 5 through 9, by section 1 of this Act plus an amount derived for his longevity step by application of a step increase for each of the two longevity steps in an amount equivalent to the rate of salary increment between the service step rates in the respective classes 5 through 9 as provided by section 1 of this Act: Provided, That each officer or member serving in a maximum scheduled service step or longevity step 7, as the case may be, as heretofore included in classes 5 through 9, respectively, of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, shall receive additionally a longevity step increase if he has completed one hundred and |