[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6101 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6101

  To amend the Legal Services Corporation Act to provide appropriate 
 removal procedures for the Inspector General, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 2006

  Mr. Cannon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Legal Services Corporation Act to provide appropriate 
 removal procedures for the Inspector General, 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 ``Legal Services Corporation 
Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL.

    Section 1005 of the Legal Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 
2996d) is amended--
            (1) in the heading of the section, by striking ``and 
        employees'' and inserting ``, employees, and the inspector 
        general'';
            (2) at the end of the section, by adding the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(h)(1) The Board shall appoint and shall have the power to remove 
the Inspector General, in accordance with section 8G of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978.
    ``(2) The Inspector General may at any time be removed upon the 
written concurrence of at least 9 members of the Board. Nothing in this 
subsection shall be considered to exempt the Board from the 
requirements of section 8G(e) of the Inspector General Act of 1978.''.
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