[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4907 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4907

To amend chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that the 
 same annual reports which are currently being furnished by the Social 
 Security Administration be required of all Government agencies which 
 are authorized to grant official time to any of their employees, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2002

   Mr. Dan Miller of Florida (for himself, Mr. Istook, Mr. Weldon of 
  Florida, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Norwood, Mr. Paul, Mr. Souder, and Mr. 
  Tancredo) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that the 
 same annual reports which are currently being furnished by the Social 
 Security Administration be required of all Government agencies which 
 are authorized to grant official time to any of their employees, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Official Time Reporting Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTS RELATING TO OFFICIAL TIME.

    Section 7131 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(e)(1) Each agency shall submit to each House of the Congress, 
the Office of Personnel Management, and the Office of Management and 
Budget, at the time the budget is submitted by the President to the 
Congress in each calendar year, a report on the use of official time 
within such agency during the fiscal year last ending before the date 
of the report's submission.
    ``(2) Each such report shall include, with respect to the fiscal 
year to which it pertains--
            ``(A) the number of hours of official time that employees 
        spent on labor organization activities;
            ``(B) the number of employees who used official time for 
        labor organization activities;
            ``(C) the number of employees who spent 100 percent of 
        their time on labor organization activities;
            ``(D) the dollar value of the official time spent on labor 
        organization activities;
            ``(E) the dollar value of the office space, equipment, 
        telephone use, and supplies provided to employees using 
        official time for labor organization activities; and
            ``(F) the benefits and disadvantages of using official time 
        for labor organization activities.''.
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