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[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2510 Introduced in House (IH)]

104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2510

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide veterans' preference 
 status to certain individuals who served on active duty in the armed 
 forces in connection with Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert 
                     Storm, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 1995

  Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. 
   Solomon, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Frazer, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. Weller, Ms. 
Rivers, Ms. Furse, Mr. Underwood, Mr. King, Mr. Peterson of Minnesota, 
 Mr. Bunn of Oregon, Mr. Watts of Oklahoma, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Serrano, 
 Mr. Frost, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. Dornan, and 
  Mr. Hoke) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide veterans' preference 
 status to certain individuals who served on active duty in the armed 
 forces in connection with Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert 
                     Storm, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That (a) section 2108 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A) by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (B)--
                            (i) by striking ``the date of enactment of 
                        the Veterans' Education and Employment 
                        Assistance Act of 1976,'' and inserting 
                        ``October 15, 1976,''; and
                            (ii) by adding ``or'' after the semicolon; 
                        and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the 
                following:
                    ``(C) served on active duty as defined by section 
                101(21) of title 38 in the armed forces in connection 
                with Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert Storm, 
                whether or not in the Persian Gulf theater of 
                operations;'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)(B) by inserting ``or (C)'' after 
        ``paragraph (1)(B)''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
``A benefit afforded under this title by reason of an individual's 
meeting the definition of `preference eligible' under paragraph (3) 
shall be subject to the minimum active-duty service requirement under 
section 5303A(d) of title 38, if applicable.''.
    (b) Section 3309(2) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``2108(3)(A)'' and inserting ``2108(3)(A)-(B)''.
    (c) Subparagraph (B) of section 2108(1) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ``511(d)'' and inserting ``12103(d)''.
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