[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2679 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2679

To exclude the Internal Revenue Service from the provisions of title 5, 
      United States Code, relating to labor-management relations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2013

  Mr. Gardner (for himself, Mr. Scalise, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Rokita, Mr. 
Fleming, Mr. Cole, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. 
   Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Southerland, Mr. Coble, and Mr. Griffin of 
  Arkansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To exclude the Internal Revenue Service from the provisions of title 5, 
      United States Code, relating to labor-management relations.

    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 ``Preventing Unionization of Revenue 
Service Employees Act'' or the ``PURSE Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Section 7103(a)(3) of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (G), by striking ``or'';
            (2) in subparagraph (H), by striking the period and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding after subparagraph (H) the following:
                    ``(I) the Internal Revenue Service;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, notwithstanding any 
provision of law, rule, or regulation, or of any preexisting collective 
bargaining agreement.
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