Group B, master's degree..

$10, 720 $11, 165 $11, 610 $12, 055 $12, 500 $12, 945 $13, 390 $13,835 Group 3, master's degree plus 30 credit hours. 11,420 11,865 12, 310 12,755 13,200 13,645 14,090 14,535 Group D, doctor's degree.. 12, 120 12, 565 13,455 13,900 14, 345 14,790 15, 235

13,010

(3) Section 5(c) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31-1522 (c) is amended (a) by inserting immediately before the period at the end of the third sentence "or the equivalence thereof", and (b) by striking out the fifth sentence.

(4) The third sentence of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of section 7 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31-1532 (a) (1)) is amended by striking out "the same type of position" and inserting in lieu thereof "any position covered in salary class 15". (5) Subsection (a) of section 8 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31-1533(a) is amended by inserting "or class" immediately after "position" each time it appears in that subsection.

(6) Section 10(a) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 31-1535(a)) is amended to read as follows:

"(a) On and after the effective date of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act Amendments of 1968, each promotion to group B, group C, or group D, within a salary class, shall become effective

"(1) on the date of the regular Board meeting of the twelfth month prior to the date of approval of promotion by the Board, or

"(2) on the effective date of the master's degree or doctor's degree or on

the completion of thirty or sixty credit hours beyond the master's degree, as the case may be,

whichever is later."

(7) Effective on October 1, 1967, the salary schedule contained in section 13(a) of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955 (D.C. Code, sec. 31-1542 (a)) is amended to read as follows:

Teacher, elementary and secondary schools; counselor, elementary and secondary schools; librarian, elementary and secondary schools; school social worker; speech correctionist; school psychologist, and instructor, District of Columbia Teachers College

Psychiatric social worker and assistant professor, District of Columbia Teachers
College

Clinical psychologist.

7.73 8.63

9.51

Associate professor, District of Columbia Teachers College.

Assistant principal, elementary and secondary schools, and professor, District of
Columbia Teachers College..

Supervising director.

Principal, elementary and secondary schools.

SEC. 3. (a) Retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid by reason of this title only in the case of an individual in the service of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia (including service in the Armed Forces of the United States) on the date of enactment of this Act, except that such retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid (1) to any employee covered in this title who retired during the period beginning on October 1, 1967, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, for services rendered during such period, and (2) in accordance with the provisions of subchapter 8 of chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code (relating to settlement of accounts of deceased employees), for services rendered during the period beginning on October 1, 1967, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, by any such employee who dies during such period.

(b) For purposes of this section, service in the Armed Forces of the United States in the case of an individual relieved from training and service in the Armed Forces of the United States or discharged from hospitalization following such training and service, shall include the period provided by law for the mandatory restoration of such individual to a position in or under the municipal government of the District of Columbia.

SEC. 4. For the purpose of determining the amount of insurance for which an individual is eligible under the provisions of chapter 87 of title 5, United States Code (relating to Government employees group life insurance), all changes in rates of compensation or salary which result from the enactment of this title shall be held and considered to be effective as of the date of the enactment of th Act.

SEC. 5. The amendments made by paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and (6) of section 2 of this Act shall take effect on the first day of the first month following the date of the enactment of this Act.

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Washington, March 19, 1968.

Hon. JOHN L. MCMILLAN,

Chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia,
House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. MCMILLAN: The Government of the District of Columbia has for report H.R. 15747, a bill "To amend the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955 to provide salary increases for teachers and school officers in the District of Columbia public schools, and for other purposes.'

The salary increases provided by this bill would cost $15.8 million for a full fiscal year, with pay raises averaging 23.5 percent. These increases are to be effective October 1, 1967, resulting in a Fiscal Year 1968 cost of $13.9 million. The District cannot support increases of this size at this time but has recommended an increase, to be effective October 1, 1968, averaging 8.3 percent, and an additional increase, effective July 1, 1968, averaging 11 percent. These raises would cost $5 million for Fiscal Year 1968 and an additional $7.3 million for Fiscal Year 1969. For the reasons stated in its letter to you dated March 18, 1968, the District believes its proposals to be the highest that can be supported by the District at this time.

The Government of the District of Columbia has been advised by the Bureau of the Budget that, from the standpoint of the Administration's program, there is no objection to the submission of this report to the Congress.

Sincerely yours,

THOMAS W. FLETCHER,
Assistant to the Commissioner

(For Walter E. Washington, Commissioner).

TEACHERS' SALARY INCREASES: TWO STEP

(H.R. 14526, 90th Cong., first sess., by Mr. Broyhill on Dec. 15, 1967) A BILL To amend the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955 to provide salary increases for teachers and school officers in the District of Columbia public schools, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act Amendments of 1968".

SEC. 2, The District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955 (D.C. Code, sec. 31-1501 et seq.), is amended as follows:

(1) Effective on the first day of the first month following the date of the enactment of this Act, the salary schedule contained in section 1 of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1955 (D.C. Code, sec. 31-1501) is amended to read as follows: