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To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure compliance with veterans preference requirements at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure compliance with veterans' preference requirements at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Summary
This bill amends federal law governing the Department of Veterans Affairs to designate violations of veterans' preference requirements as prohibited personnel practices. It adds a new provision stating that VA employees with hiring or personnel authority may not take actions that would violate veterans' preference laws and regulations. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs must submit a report to Congress within six months describing how the requirement is being implemented and how the department is administering veterans' preference requirements overall.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-5] (R-IN)
2 cosponsors
Actions (3)
- Jun 11, 1996 Referred to the Subcommittee on Education, Training, Employment and Housing. · house
- Jun 6, 1996 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
- Jun 6, 1996 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 6, 1996
Mr. Buyer (for himself, Mr. Filner, and Mr. Solomon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure compliance with veterans’ preference requirements at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH VETERANS’ PREFERENCE REQUIREMENTS TO BE TREATED AS A PROHIBITED PERSONNEL PRACTICE.
(a) In General.—Chapter 7 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “Sec. 713. Failure to comply with veterans’ preference requirements to be treated as a prohibited personnel practice
“(a) An employee of the Department who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, shall not, with respect to such authority, take or fail to take any personnel action with respect to an employee or applicant for employment if the taking of or failure to take such action would violate any law, rule, or regulation implementing, or directly concerning, veterans’ preference.
“(b) A failure to comply with subsection (a) shall be treated as a prohibited personnel practice.
“(c) The Secretary shall, not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this section, submit a written report to each House of Congress with respect to—
“(1) the implementation of this section; and
“(2) the administration of veterans’ preference requirements by the Department generally.
“(d) For the purpose of this section, the terms ‘personnel action’ and ‘prohibited personnel practice’ shall have the respective meanings given them by section 2302 of title 5.”.
(b) Clerical Amendment.—The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 7 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 712 the following:
“Sec. 713. Failure to comply with veterans’ preference requirements to be treated as a prohibited personnel practice.”. <all>
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