---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 461"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "461"
heading: "Review of pay and benefit plans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/461"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part H — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §461. Review of pay and benefit plans


Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) shall, in consultation with the [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) of the Office of [Personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) Management, review the pay and benefit plans of each [agency](/usc/6/311.md?p=2) whose [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) are transferred under this chapter to the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) and, within 90 days after November 25, 2002, submit a plan to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the appropriate committees and subcommittees of Congress, for ensuring, to the maximum extent practicable, the elimination of disparities in pay and benefits throughout the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5), especially among law enforcement [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15), that are inconsistent with merit system principles set forth in [section 2301 of title 5](/usc/5/2301.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 881, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2246.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.