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[S. Res. 478 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 478

  Relating to displaced staff members of Senators and Senate leaders.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 19, 2004

Mr. Frist submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Relating to displaced staff members of Senators and Senate leaders.

    Resolved, That (a) paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 6(a) of Senate 
Resolution 458, 98th Congress, agreed to October 4, 1984 (as amended by 
Senate Resolution 9, 103d Congress, agreed to January 7, 1993) are 
amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) The term `eligible staff member' means an 
        individual--
                    ``(A) who was an employee--
                            ``(i) of a committee or subcommittee 
                        thereof or a Senate leadership office described 
                        in subsection (b) of the first section of this 
                        resolution, or
                            ``(ii) in an office of a Senator on the 
                        expiration of the term of office of such 
                        Senator as a Senator, but only if the Senator 
                        is not serving as a Senator for the next term 
                        of office and was a candidate in the general 
                        election for such next term,
                    ``(B) whose employment described in subparagraph 
                (A) was at least 183 days (whether or not service was 
                continuous) before the date of termination of 
                employment described in paragraph (4), and
                    ``(C) whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of 
                the Senate.
        The term `eligible staff member' shall not include an employee 
        to whom the first section of this resolution applies.
            ``(4) The term `displaced staff member' means an eligible 
        staff member--
                    ``(A) whose service as an employee of the Senate is 
                terminated solely and directly as a result of--
                            ``(i) in the case of employment described 
                        in paragraph (3)(A)(i), a change in the 
                        individual occupying the position of Chairman 
                        or Ranking Minority Member of a committee or in 
                        the individual occupying the Senate leadership 
                        office, and
                            ``(ii) in the case of employment described 
                        in paragraph (3)(A)(ii), the expiration of the 
                        term of office of the Senator, and
                    ``(B) who is certified, not later than 60 days 
                after the date of the change or expiration of term of 
                office, whichever is applicable, as a displaced staff 
                member by the Chairman or Ranking Minority Member of 
                the committee, the Senator occupying the Senate 
                leadership office, or the Senator whose term is 
                expiring, whichever is applicable, to the Secretary of 
                the Senate.''.
    (b) Subsection (b) of the first section of such Senate Resolution 
458 is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``President pro tempore emeritus,'' after 
        ``Deputy President pro tempore,'';
            (2) by striking ``or'' before ``Secretary''; and
            (3) by inserting ``the Chairman of the Conference of the 
        Majority, the Chairman of the Conference of the Minority, the 
        Chairman of the Majority Policy Committee, or the Chairman of 
        the Minority Policy Committee,'' before ``the employees of such 
        office''.
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