[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2797 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2797

To provide competitive status to certain Federal employees in the State 
                               of Alaska.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 12, 2006

 Ms. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide competitive status to certain Federal employees in the State 
                               of Alaska.

    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 ``Thomas P. O'Hara Public Land Career 
Opportunity Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE STATUS FOR CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES IN THE STATE 
              OF ALASKA.

    Section 1308 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
(16 U.S.C. 3198) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (d) and (e), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Competitive Status.--An individual appointed to a permanent 
position under subsection (a) shall be converted to competitive status 
after--
            ``(1) if the appointment is full time, the completion of 2 
        years of competitive and satisfactory full time service; or
            ``(2) if the appointment is less than full time, the period 
        that is equivalent to 2 years of competitive and satisfactory 
        full time service.''.
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