[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2677 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 2677

    To require the Secretary of the Interior to accept from a State 
  donations of services of State employees to perform, in a period of 
 Government budgetary shutdown, otherwise authorized functions in any 
   unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System or the National Park 
                                System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 20, 1995

Mr. Young of Alaska (for himself, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Saxton, Mr. Calvert, 
and Mr. Hayworth) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                       the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of the Interior to accept from a State 
  donations of services of State employees to perform, in a period of 
 Government budgetary shutdown, otherwise authorized functions in any 
   unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System or the National Park 
                                System.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Parks and National Wildlife 
Refuge Systems Freedom Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO ACCEPT STATE 
              DONATIONS OF STATE EMPLOYEE SERVICES.

    (a) Requirement.--The Secretary shall accept from any State 
donations of services of qualified State employees to perform in a 
Unit, in a period of Government budgetary shutdown, functions otherwise 
authorized to be performed by Department of Interior personnel.
    (b) Limitations.--An employee of a State may perform functions 
under this section only within areas of a Unit that are located in the 
State.
    (c) Exclusion From Treatment as Federal Employees.--A State 
employee who performs functions under this section shall not be treated 
as a Federal employee for purposes of any Federal law relating to pay 
or benefits for Federal employees.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``Government budgetary shutdown'' means a 
        period during which there are no amounts available for the 
        operation of the National Wildlife Refuge System and the 
        National Park System, because of--
                    (A) a failure to enact an annual appropriations 
                bill for the period for the Department of the Interior; 
                and
                    (B) a failure to enact a bill (or joint resolution) 
                continuing the availability of appropriations for the 
                Department of the Interior for a temporary period 
                pending the enactment of such an annual appropriations 
                bill;
            (2) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the 
        Interior; and
            (3) the term ``Unit'' means a unit of--
                    (A) the National Wildlife Refuge System, or
                    (B) the National Park System.
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