[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2587 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2587

   To prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any 
     employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any 
                             circumstance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2011

    Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Kline, Mr. Roe of 
Tennessee, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, and Mr. Gowdy) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any 
     employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any 
                             circumstance.

    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 ``Protecting Jobs From Government 
Interference Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF THE NLRB.

    Section 10(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 160) 
is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ``: 
Provided further, That the Board shall have no power to order an 
employer (or seek an order against an employer) to restore or reinstate 
any work, product, production line, or equipment, to rescind any 
relocation, transfer, subcontracting, outsourcing, or other change 
regarding the location, entity, or persons who shall be engaged in 
production or other business operations, or to require any employer to 
make an initial or additional investment at a particular plant, 
facility, or location.''.

SEC. 3. RETROACTIVITY.

    The Act shall apply to any complaint for which a final adjudication 
by the Board has not been made by the date of enactment.
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