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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2190 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2190

     To direct the Office of Personnel Management to establish an 
    interagency placement program for Federal employees affected by 
          reduction in force actions, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 14 (legislative day, June 7), 1994

 Mr. Lautenberg (for himself and Mr. Wofford) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                          Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL

 
     To direct the Office of Personnel Management to establish an 
    interagency placement program for Federal employees affected by 
          reduction in force actions, 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 ``Federal Service Priority Placement 
Program Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY PLACEMENT PROGRAM FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY 
              REDUCTION IN FORCE ACTIONS.

    (a) Definition.--For purposes of this section the term ``agency'' 
means an ``Executive agency'' as defined under section 105 of title 5, 
United States Code, and--
            (1) includes the United States Postal Service and the 
        Postal Rate Commission; and
            (2) does not include the General Accounting Office.
    (b) Establishment of Program.--No later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of 
Personnel Management shall establish a Government-wide demonstration 
program to facilitate employment placement for Federal employees who--
            (1) are scheduled to be separated from service under a 
        reduction in force pursuant to--
                    (A) regulations prescribed under section 3502 of 
                title 5, United States Code; or
                    (B) procedures established under section 3595 of 
                title 5, United States Code; or
            (2) are separated from service under such a reduction in 
        force.
    (c) Interagency Placement Program.--The placement program 
established under subsection (b) shall--
            (1) coordinate with programs established by agencies for 
        the placement of agency employees affected by a reduction in 
        force action within such agency; and
            (2) provide a system to require the offer of a position in 
        an agency to an employee of another agency affected by a 
        reduction in force action, if--
                    (A) the position cannot be filled through the 
                placement program of the agency in which the position 
                is located;
                    (B) the employee to whom the offer is made is well 
                qualified for the offered position;
                    (C)(i) the classification of the offered position 
                is equal to the classification of the employee's 
                present or last held position; or
                    (ii) the basic rate of pay of the offered position 
                is equal to the basic rate of pay of the employee's 
                present or last held position; and
                    (D) the geographic location of the offered position 
                is within the commuting area of--
                            (i) the residence of the employee; or
                            (ii) the location of the employee's present 
                        or last held position.
    (d) Agency Programs Unaffected.--The interagency placement program 
established under this section shall not affect the priority of 
placement of any employee under the agency placement program of such 
employee's employing agency.
    (e) Termination of Demonstration Program.--The demonstration 
program established under subsection (b) shall terminate 5 years after 
the date on which the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 
determines such program is first operable.

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