[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 3 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 3

   Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Office of Personnel 
Management should provide certain vocational rehabilitation services in 
 its administration of the civil service disability retirement program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 1995

Mrs. Collins of Illinois submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
   Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Office of Personnel 
Management should provide certain vocational rehabilitation services in 
 its administration of the civil service disability retirement program.

Whereas individuals under the civil service disability retirement program should 
        have the option of resuming useful employment after their careers are 
        interrupted by severe injury;
Whereas vocational rehabilitation methods, such as selective job referral, 
        retraining, and career counseling, have progressed to the point where 
        they represent cost-effective, as well as humane, alternatives to 
        continued dependence on disability benefits;
Whereas the former Federal policy favoring the rehiring of injured employees has 
        been curtailed because of recent hiring ceilings; and
Whereas vocational rehabilitation is used throughout the insurance industry as 
        well as under Federal workmen's compensation law, and should be a part 
        of the Office of Personnel Management's functions in administering the 
        civil service disability retirement program: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that the Office of Personnel 
Management should identify those individuals under the disability 
retirement provisions of title 5, United States Code, who could benefit 
from vocational rehabilitation and should advise such annuitants of the 
various vocational rehabilitation programs available to them, including 
those administered by the United States Employment Service and State 
vocational education divisions.
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