[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1486 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1486

  To direct the Office of Personnel Management to establish placement 
programs for Federal employees affected by reduction in force actions, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 20, 1995

Mr. Lautenberg (for himself, Mr. Robb, Mr. Sarbanes, and Ms. Mikulski) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                   Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Office of Personnel Management to establish placement 
programs for Federal employees affected by reduction in force actions, 
                        and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. PLACEMENT PROGRAMS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY 
              REDUCTION IN FORCE ACTIONS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Public Servant 
Priority Placement Act of 1995''.
    (b) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
section:
``Sec. 3329b. Placement programs for Federal employees affected by 
              reduction in force actions
    ``(a) For purposes of this section the term ``agency'' means an 
``Executive agency'' as defined under section 105, except such term 
shall not include the General Accounting Office.
    ``(b) No later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this section, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall 
establish a Government-wide program and each agency shall establish an 
agency program to facilitate employment placement for Federal employees 
who--
            ``(1) are scheduled to be separated from service under a 
        reduction in force under--
                    ``(A) regulations prescribed under section 3502; or
                    ``(B) procedures established under section 3595; or
            ``(2) are separated from service under such a reduction in 
        force.
    ``(c) Each agency placement program established under subsection 
(b) shall provide a system to require the offer of a vacant position in 
an agency to an employee of such agency affected by a reduction in 
force action, if--
            ``(1) the position cannot be filled within the agency;
            ``(2) the employee to whom the offer is made is qualified 
        for the offered position;
            ``(3)(A) the classification of the offered position is 
        equal to or no more than one grade below the classification of 
        the employee's present or last held position; or
            ``(B)(i) the basic rate of pay of the offered position is 
        equal to the basic rate of pay of the employee's present or 
        last held position; or
            ``(ii) sections 5362 and 5363 apply to the basic rate of 
        pay of the employee in the offered position; and
            ``(4) the geographic location of the offered position is 
        within the commuting area of--
                    ``(A) the residence of the employee; or
                    ``(B) the location of the employee's present or 
                last held position.
    ``(d) The Government-wide placement program established under 
subsection (b) shall--
            ``(1) coordinate with programs established by agencies for 
        the placement of agency employees affected by a reduction in 
        force action within such agency; and
            ``(2) provide a system to require the offer of a vacant 
        position in an agency to an employee of another agency affected 
        by a reduction in force action, if--
                    ``(A) the vacant position cannot be filled through 
                the placement program or otherwise be filled from 
                within the agency in which the position is located;
                    ``(B) the employee to whom the offer is made is 
                well qualified for the offered position;
                    ``(C)(i) the classification of the offered position 
                is equal to the classification of the employee's 
                present or last held position; or
                    ``(ii) the basic rate of pay of the offered 
                position is equal to the basic rate of pay of the 
                employee's present or last held position; and
                    ``(D) the geographic location of the offered 
                position is within the commuting area of--
                            ``(i) the residence of the employee; or
                            ``(ii) the location of the employee's 
                        present or last held position.
    ``(e)(1) The agency placement program established under this 
section shall not affect any priority placement program of the 
Department of Defense that is in operation on the date of the enactment 
of this section.
    ``(2) The interagency placement program established under this 
section shall not affect the priority of placement of any employee 
under the agency placement program of such employee's employing 
agency.''.
    (c) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--(1) The section heading 
for the second section 3329 (relating to Government-wide list of vacant 
positions) is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 3329a. Government-wide list of vacant positions''.
    (2) The table of sections for chapter 33 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking out the item relating to the second 
section 3329 (relating to Government-wide list of vacant positions) and 
inserting in lieu thereof the following:

``3329a. Government-wide list of vacant positions.
``3329b. Placement programs for Federal employees affected by reduction 
                            in force actions.''.
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