[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3583 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3583

To limit or deny civil service protection for a Federal employee if the 
 appointment of that employee is a prohibited personnel practice that 
was made on the basis of political affiliation as prohibited under any 
                       law, rule, or regulation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 25 (legislative day, September 17), 2008

Mr. Whitehouse introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To limit or deny civil service protection for a Federal employee if the 
 appointment of that employee is a prohibited personnel practice that 
was made on the basis of political affiliation as prohibited under any 
                       law, rule, or regulation.

    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 ``Political Independence of the Civil 
Service Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

  ``SUBCHAPTER VI--CIVIL SERVICE PROTECTION FOR EMPLOYEE APPOINTED ON 
               PROHIBITED BASIS OF POLITICAL AFFILIATION

``Sec. 7551. Civil service protection for employee appointed on 
              prohibited basis of political affiliation
    ``(a) In this section--
            ``(1) the term `agency' has the meaning given under section 
        2302(a)(2)(C);
            ``(2) the term `covered employee' means an employee whose 
        appointment to an agency is a prohibited appointment; and
            ``(3) the term `prohibited appointment' means any 
        appointment of an employee to an agency which is a prohibited 
        personnel practice that violates section 2302 (b)(1)(E) because 
        such appointment was made on the basis of political affiliation 
        as prohibited under any law, rule, or regulation.
    ``(b) The protections under subchapters I through V of this chapter 
shall not apply to a covered employee.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for 
chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following:

  ``subchapter vi--civil service protection for employee appointed on 
               prohibited basis of political affiliation

``Sec. 7551. Civil service protection for employee appointed on 
                            prohibited basis of political 
                            affiliation.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of 
enactment of this Act and apply to any appointment made before, on, or 
after that date.
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