[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2245 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2245

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 5, 2015

  Mr. Gardner introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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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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