US Congress Senate Bill 362 (Prior Session Legislation)

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January 30 2009 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Repeals specified exceptions to rights of certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees to engage in collective bargaining. Requires a final decision of the VA with respect to the review of an adverse personnel action against a VA employee to be issued not later than 60 days after such action has been appealed. Subjects such decision to judicial review in the appropriate U.S. District Court or, if the decision is made by a labor arbitrator, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collective bargaining rights and procedures for review of adverse actions of certain employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Sen Brown, Sherrod	Sen Pryor, Mark L.	Sen Merkley, Jeff	Sen Byrd, Robert C.
Sen Specter, Arlen	Sen Sanders, Bernard	Sen Rockefeller, John D., IV	Sen Murray, Patty
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A.	Sen Kerry, John F.	Sen Webb, Jim

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-01-30		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
2009-01-30		Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1127-1128)

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:SN00362:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111s362is/pdf/BILLS-111s362is.pdf