[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 531 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 531

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 provide that the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may 
           only be removed for cause, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2019

Mr. Brown of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
 provide that the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may 
           only be removed for cause, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Fighting for Intelligent, Rational, 
and Ethical Dismissal Act'' or the ``FIRED Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.

    (a) Removal for Cause.--Section 1101(b) of title VI of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-351) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``The 
President may remove the Director for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or 
malfeasance in office.''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to any Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation appointed on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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