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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 285 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 285

 To provide for the approval of final regulations relating to Federal 
 service labor-management relations that are applicable to the Senate 
and the employees of the Senate, and that were issued by the Office of 
Compliance, now known as the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, 
              on August 19, 1996, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 22, 2023

  Mr. Brown (for himself, Mr. Markey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Sanders, Ms. 
Warren, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Welch, Ms. Smith, Mr. Booker, Mrs. Gillibrand, 
Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Fetterman, 
  Mr. Peters, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Hirono, Ms. Baldwin, and Mr. Casey) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                      on Rules and Administration

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 To provide for the approval of final regulations relating to Federal 
 service labor-management relations that are applicable to the Senate 
and the employees of the Senate, and that were issued by the Office of 
Compliance, now known as the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, 
              on August 19, 1996, and for other purposes.

    Resolved, That the following regulations issued by the Office of 
Congressional Workplace Rights on August 19, 1996, are hereby approved:
    

                          ADOPTED REGULATIONS

      Subchapter E--Covered Employees in Certain Employing Offices

                  PART 2472--CERTAIN EMPLOYING OFFICES

2472.1  PURPOSE AND SCOPE.

     The regulations contained in this subchapter implement the 
provisions of chapter 71 as applied by section 220 of the CAA to 
covered employees in the following employing offices:
            (A) the personal office of any Senator;
            (B) a standing select, special, permanent, temporary, or 
        other committee of the Senate, or a joint committee of Congress 
        that employs an employee of the Senate (with respect to such an 
        employee);
            (C) the Office of the Vice President (as President of the 
        Senate), the Office of the President pro tempore of the Senate, 
        the Office of the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Office of 
        the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Office of the Majority 
        Whip of the Senate, the Office of the Minority Whip of the 
        Senate, the Conference of the Majority of the Senate, the 
        Conference of the Minority of the Senate, the Office of the 
        Secretary of the Conference of the Majority of the Senate, the 
        Office of the Secretary of the Conference of the Minority of 
        the Senate, the Office of the Secretary for the Majority of the 
        Senate, the Office of the Secretary for the Minority of the 
        Senate, the Majority Policy Committee of the Senate, the 
        Minority Policy Committee of the Senate, and the following 
        offices within the Office of the Secretary of the Senate: 
        Offices of the Parliamentarian, Bill Clerk, Legislative Clerk, 
        Journal Clerk, Executive Clerk, Enrolling Clerk, Official 
        Reporters of Debate, Daily Digest, Printing Services, 
        Captioning Services, and Senate Chief Counsel for Employment;
            (D the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate and 
        the Office of the Senate Legal Counsel;
            (E) the offices of any caucus or party organization that 
        employs an employee of the Senate (with respect to such an 
        employee); and
            (F) the Executive Office of the Secretary of the Senate, 
        the Office of Senate Security, the Senate Disbursing Office, 
        and the Administrative Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the 
        Senate.

2472.2  APPLICATION OF CHAPTER 71.

     (a) The requirements and exemptions of chapter 71, as made 
applicable by section 220 of the CAA, shall apply to covered employees 
who are employed in the offices listed in section 2472.1 in the same 
manner and to the same extent as those requirements and exemptions are 
applied to other covered employees.
    (b) The regulations of the Office, as set forth at parts 2420-29 
and 2470-71, shall apply to the employing offices listed in section 
2472.1, covered employees who are employed in those offices, and 
representatives of those employees.

2472.3  DEFINITIONS.

     In this subchapter:
            (1) The terms ``CAA'', ``chapter 71'', and ``employing 
        office'' have the meanings given the terms in sections 2421.1 
        through 2421.3, respectively.
            (2) The terms ``covered employee'' and ``employee of the 
        Senate'' have the meanings given the terms in section 101 of 
        the CAA (2 U.S.C. 1301).
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