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		<distribution-code display="yes">III</distribution-code>

		<congress display="yes">108th CONGRESS</congress>

		<session display="yes">2d Session</session>

		<legis-num>S. RES. 478</legis-num>

		<current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber>

		<action display="yes">

			<action-date date="20040419">November 19, 2004</action-date>

			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="S241">Mr. Frist</sponsor> submitted the

			 following resolution; which was considered and agreed to</action-desc>

		</action>

		<legis-type>RESOLUTION</legis-type>

		<official-title display="yes">Relating to displaced staff members of

		  Senators and Senate leaders.</official-title>

	</form>

	<resolution-body>

		<section display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="S1" section-type="undesignated-section"><text>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:</text>

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				<paragraph id="idCD1B7AD6BD2A47ED8E504F37670ACCEC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The term

				<term>eligible staff member</term> means an individual—</text>

					<subparagraph id="id3D32840C99FB4E7EB3A9F54E85428846"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who was an

				employee—</text>

						<clause id="idE6581BD4A8EF4B30ADBC5D1A03617B7F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>of a committee or

				subcommittee thereof or a Senate leadership office described in subsection (b)

				of the first section of this resolution, or</text>

						</clause><clause id="idB72143538D35480F91FA5AA0ED229575"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>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,</text>

						</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id40D2CE798E2E4B7BB58AF703EEF37EC3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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</text>

					</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3E5865A76FCB47009727E5891F41DE7D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>whose pay is

				disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate.</text>

					</subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">The term

				<term>eligible staff member</term> shall not include an employee to whom the

				first section of this resolution applies.</continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5F146B95F0A8423AA4AC840E9472F0B4"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The term

				<term>displaced staff member</term> means an eligible staff member—</text>

					<subparagraph id="id764A1CDEF2B0473988ACCD9AE39BF8B5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>whose service as

				an employee of the Senate is terminated solely and directly as a result

				of—</text>

						<clause id="idE45AE1DE87D145B897860F2DDC8B0ACF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>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</text>

						</clause><clause id="id477E0019A75843EFB0EC3A755C56B1F9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of

				employment described in paragraph (3)(A)(ii), the expiration of the term of

				office of the Senator, and</text>

						</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3564DEFAC4C84AD792ACABE1F3643151"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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.</text>

					</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>

			<subsection id="idFB22BB5F842345D8A71E7DA5FA1CDBF7"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Subsection (b) of

			 the first section of such Senate Resolution 458 is amended—</text>

				<paragraph id="idE668573AA414400AA092AB0E55882AE1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting

			 <quote>President pro tempore emeritus,</quote> after <quote>Deputy President

			 pro tempore,</quote>;</text>

				</paragraph><paragraph id="idF3F36CFED6CA4BFDA40C1FDFDCC6327D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking

			 <quote>or</quote> before <quote>Secretary</quote>; and</text>

				</paragraph><paragraph id="id72FCD83C22AB4B63BB195FCAEC5A4A50"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting

			 <quote>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,</quote> before <quote>the

			 employees of such office</quote>.</text>

				</paragraph></subsection></section></resolution-body>

</resolution>

