[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2606 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2606

    To require the termination of any employee of the Department of 
      Veterans Affairs who is found to have retaliated against a 
                             whistleblower.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 2014

Mrs. McCaskill introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the termination of any employee of the Department of 
      Veterans Affairs who is found to have retaliated against a 
                             whistleblower.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS WHO RETALIATE AGAINST WHISTLEBLOWERS.

    (a) In General.--Subject to chapter 12 of title 5, United States 
Code, including the right of an employee to obtain judicial review 
under section 1215(a)(4) of that title, and notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, any employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
who is determined under section 1215 of that title to have violated 
paragraph (8), (9), or (13) of section 2302(b) of that title shall be 
terminated.
    (b) Applicability.--Subsection (a) shall apply to an act committed 
before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.
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