EXTENSION HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE CIVIL SERVICE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 960 A BILL EXTENDING THE CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES MERIT SYSTEM AND CLASSIFICATION EXTENSION THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1939 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The Committee this day met at 10:20 a. m., Hon Robert Ramspeck (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, we are meeting this morning to consider H. R. 960 and I think it might be well to state in the beginning that this bill contains in substance that part of the reorganization bill of last year providing for extension of the Civil Service law and Classification Act but eliminating that part of the reorganization bill which dealt with the set-up of the administrative agency to handle civil service. I will ask the reporter to put a copy of this bill in the record at this point. [H. R. 960, 76th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL Extending the classified executive civil service of the United States Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the President is authorized by Executive order to cover into the classified civil service any offices or positions in or under an executive department, independent establishment, or other agency of the Government: Provided, That in the case of any federally owned and controlled corporation organized under the laws of any State, Territory, or possession of the United States (including the Philippine Islands), or the District of Columbia, the President is authorized to direct that such action be taken as will permit appointments to offices or positions in any such corporation to be made in accordance with the civil-service laws consistently with the laws of any such State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, or with the charter or articles of incorporation of any such corporation. SEC. 2. The incumbent of any office or position which is covered into the classified civil service under the provisions of section 1 of this Act shall not thereby acquire a classified civil-service status, except (1) upon recommendation by the head of the agency concerned within one year after such office or position has been covered into the classified civil service, and certification within such period by such head to the Civil Service Commission that such incumbent has served with merit for not less than six months prior to the date such office or position was covered into the classified civil service; and (2) upon passing such suitable noncompetitive examination as the Commission may prescribe. TITLE II-EXTENSION OF CLASSIFICATION ACT SEC. 3. (a) Subject to the limitations contained in this section, whenever the President, after such classification and compensation surveys or investigations as he may direct the Commission to undertake, and upon consideration of the Commission's resulting reports and recommendations, shall find and declare that an extension of the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to any offices or positions in the agencies of the Government is necessary to the more efficient operation of the Government, he may be Executive order extend the 1 |