[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1658 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1658

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to limit the circumstances in 
         which official time may be used by a Federal employee.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 26, 2015

  Mr. Jody B. Hice of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Long, Mr. 
  McClintock, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Franks of 
   Arizona, Mr. Hensarling, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Ross, Mr. Latta, Mr. 
Grothman, Mr. Weber of Texas, and Mr. Salmon) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to limit the circumstances in 
         which official time may be used by a Federal employee.

    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 ``Federal Employee Accountability Act 
of 2015''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO OFFICIAL TIME.

    Section 7131 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking subsections (a) and (c);
            (2) by redesignating subsections (b) and (d) as subsections 
        (a) and (b), respectively; and
            (3) in subsection (b) (as so redesignated by paragraph 
        (2)), by striking ``Except as provided in the preceding 
        subsections of this section--'' and inserting ``Except as 
        provided in subsection (a)--''.
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