[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1523 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1523

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 8, 2011

  Mr. Graham introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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 employer 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 amendment made by section 2 shall apply to any complaint for 
which a final adjudication by the National Labor Relations Board has 
not been made by the date of enactment of this Act.
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