[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1601 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1601

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide employees of the 
 Department of Veterans Affairs with protection against certain unfair 
                         employment practices.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1993

   Mr. Smith of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide employees of the 
 Department of Veterans Affairs with protection against certain unfair 
                         employment practices.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) chapter 7 of 
title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:
``Sec. 712. Protection against reprisals
    ``(a) No officer or employee of the Department shall, by reason of 
the fact that an employee of the Department has filed, instituted, or 
caused to be filed or instituted any proceeding alleging that the 
employee has been subject to unlawful employment discrimination or a 
prohibited personnel practice, or has testified or is about to testify 
in any proceeding resulting from the administration or enforcement of 
any law respecting unlawful employment discrimination or a prohibited 
personnel practice--
            ``(1) discharge the employee;
            ``(2) in any other way discriminate against the employee; 
        or
            ``(3) cause another person to take an action described in 
        paragraph (1) or (2).
    ``(b) Any employee who believes that the employee has been 
discharged or otherwise discriminated against by an officer or employee 
of the Department in violation of subsection (a) may file a complaint 
in accordance with provisions of law protecting the employee against 
prohibited personnel practices.''.
    (b) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is 
amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``712. Protection against reprisals.''.

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