[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5901]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6372. Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and Mr. Durbin) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. _____. APPEALS TO MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD 
                   RELATING TO FBI REPRISAL ALLEGATIONS.

       Section 2303 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(d)(1) An employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
     who makes an allegation of a reprisal under regulations 
     prescribed under this section may appeal a final 
     determination or corrective action order under those 
     regulations to the Merit Systems Protection Board pursuant to 
     section 1221.
       ``(2) If no final determination or corrective action order 
     has been made or issued for an allegation described in 
     paragraph (1) before the expiration of the 180-day period 
     beginning on the date on which the allegation is received, 
     pursuant to the regulations prescribed under this section, 
     the employee described in that paragraph may seek corrective 
     action directly from the Merit Systems Protection Board 
     pursuant to section 1221.''.
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