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<dc:title>113 S2606 IS: To require the termination of any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who is found to have retaliated against a whistleblower.</dc:title>
<dc:publisher>U.S. Senate</dc:publisher>
<dc:date>2014-07-15</dc:date>
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		<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code>
		<congress>113th CONGRESS</congress><session>2d Session</session>
		<legis-num>S. 2606</legis-num>
		<current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber>
		<action>
			<action-date date="20140715">July 15, 2014</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="S312">Mrs. McCaskill</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSVA00">Committee on Veterans' Affairs</committee-name></action-desc>
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		<legis-type>A BILL</legis-type>
		<official-title>To require the termination of any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs who is found to
			 have retaliated against a whistleblower.</official-title>
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		<section id="S1" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Termination of employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs who retaliate against whistleblowers</header><subsection id="id43E32D9BCD894279862C29113F8F55C6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/5/12">chapter 12</external-xref> of title 5, United States Code, including the right of an employee to
			 obtain judicial review under	section 1215(a)(4) of that title, and
			 notwithstanding any other provision of law, any employee of the Department
			 of Veterans Affairs
			 who is determined under section 1215 of that title to have violated
			 paragraph (8), (9), or (13) of section 2302(b) of that title shall be
			 terminated.</text>
			</subsection><subsection id="id60D6EEFD1A814A25BED655489922E575"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>Subsection (a) shall apply to an act committed before, on, or after the date of enactment of this
			 Act.</text></subsection></section></legis-body>
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