[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 597 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 597

To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to 
         certain employees of the United States Postal Service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2019

 Mr. Connolly (for himself and Mr. McKinley) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to 
         certain employees of the United States Postal Service.

    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 ``Postal Employee Appeal Rights 
Amendments Act''.

SEC. 2. RIGHT OF APPEAL TO MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD.

    Section 1005(a)(4)(A)(ii)(I) of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
                                    ``(I) is an officer or employee of 
                                the Postal Service who--
                                            ``(aa) is not represented 
                                        by a bargaining representative 
                                        recognized under section 1203; 
                                        and
                                            ``(bb) is in a supervisory, 
                                        professional, technical, 
                                        clerical, administrative, or 
                                        managerial position covered by 
                                        the Executive and 
                                        Administrative Schedule; and''.
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