H. R. 3690 
One Hundred Tenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and seven 
An Act 
To provide for the transfer of the Library of Congress police to the United States 
Capitol Police, 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 ‘‘U.S. Capitol Police and Library 
of Congress Police Merger Implementation Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL. 
(a) TRANSFERS.— 
(1) LIBRARY
OF
CONGRESS
POLICE
EMPLOYEES.—Effective 
on the employee’s transfer date, each Library of Congress Police 
employee shall be transferred to the United States Capitol 
Police and shall become either a member or civilian employee 
of the Capitol Police, as determined by the Chief of the Capitol 
Police under subsection (b). 
(2) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS POLICE CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.— 
Effective on the employee’s transfer date, each Library of Con-
gress Police civilian employee shall be transferred to the United 
States Capitol Police and shall become a civilian employee 
of the Capitol Police. 
(b) TREATMENT OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS POLICE EMPLOYEES.— 
(1) DETERMINATION OF STATUS WITHIN CAPITOL POLICE.— 
(A) ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS MEMBERS OF THE CAPITOL 
POLICE.—A Library of Congress Police employee shall 
become a member of the Capitol Police on the employee’s 
transfer date if the Chief of the Capitol Police determines 
and issues a written certification that the employee meets 
each of the following requirements: 
(i) Based on the assumption that such employee 
would perform a period of continuous Federal service 
after the transfer date, the employee would be entitled 
to an annuity for immediate retirement under section 
8336(b) or 8412(b) of title 5, United States Code (as 
determined by taking into account paragraph (3)(A)), 
on the date such employee becomes 60 years of age. 
(ii) During the transition period, the employee 
successfully completes training, as determined by the 
Chief of the Capitol Police. 
(iii) 
The 
employee 
meets 
the 
qualifications 
required to be a member of the Capitol Police, as 
determined by the Chief of the Capitol Police.
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(B) SERVICE
AS
CIVILIAN
EMPLOYEE
OF
CAPITOL 
POLICE.—If the Chief of the Capitol Police determines that 
a Library of Congress Police employee does not meet the 
eligibility requirements, the employee shall become a 
civilian employee of the Capitol Police on the employee’s 
transfer date. 
(C) FINALITY OF DETERMINATIONS.—Any determination 
of the Chief of the Capitol Police under this paragraph 
shall not be appealable or reviewable in any manner. 
(D) DEADLINE FOR DETERMINATIONS.—The Chief of the 
Capitol Police shall complete the determinations required 
under this paragraph for all Library of Congress Police 
employees not later than September 30, 2009. 
(2) EXEMPTION
FROM
MANDATORY
SEPARATION.—Section 
8335(c) or 8425(c) of title 5, United States Code, shall not 
apply to any Library of Congress Police employee who becomes 
a member of the Capitol Police under this subsection, until 
the earlier of— 
(A) the date on which the individual is entitled to 
an annuity for immediate retirement under section 8336(b) 
or 8412(b) of title 5, United States Code; or 
(B) the date on which the individual— 
(i) is 57 years of age or older; and 
(ii) is entitled to an annuity for immediate retire-
ment under section 8336(m) or 8412(d) of title 5, United 
States Code, (as determined by taking into account 
paragraph (3)(A)). 
(3) TREATMENT OF PRIOR CREDITABLE SERVICE FOR RETIRE-
MENT PURPOSES.— 
(A) PRIOR SERVICE FOR PURPOSES OF ELIGIBILITY FOR 
IMMEDIATE RETIREMENT AS MEMBER OF CAPITOL POLICE.— 
Any Library of Congress Police employee who becomes 
a member of the Capitol Police under this subsection shall 
be entitled to have any creditable service under section 
8332 or 8411 of title 5, United States Code, that was 
accrued prior to becoming a member of the Capitol Police 
included in calculating the employee’s service as a member 
of the Capitol Police for purposes of section 8336(m) or 
8412(d) of title 5, United States Code. 
(B) PRIOR SERVICE FOR PURPOSES OF COMPUTATION OF 
ANNUITY.—Any creditable service under section 8332 or 
8411 of title 5, United States Code, of an individual who 
becomes a member of the Capitol Police under this sub-
section that was accrued prior to becoming a member of 
the Capitol Police— 
(i) shall be treated and computed as employee 
service under section 8339 or section 8415 of such 
title; but 
(ii) shall not be treated as service as a member 
of the Capitol Police or service as a congressional 
employee for purposes of applying any formula under 
section 8339(b), 8339(q), 8415(c), or 8415(d) of such 
title under which a percentage of the individual’s aver-
age pay is multiplied by the years (or other period) 
of such service. 
(c) DUTIES
OF EMPLOYEES TRANSFERRED
TO CIVILIAN POSI-
TIONS.—
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(1) DUTIES.—The duties of any individual who becomes 
a civilian employee of the Capitol Police under this section, 
including a Library of Congress Police civilian employee under 
subsection (a)(2) and a Library of Congress Police employee 
who becomes a civilian employee of the Capitol Police under 
subsection (b)(1)(B), shall be determined solely by the Chief 
of the Capitol Police, except that a Library of Congress Police 
civilian employee under subsection (a)(2) shall continue to sup-
port Library of Congress police operations until all Library 
of Congress Police employees are transferred to the United 
States Capitol Police under this section. 
(2) FINALITY OF DETERMINATIONS.—Any determination of 
the Chief of the Capitol Police under this subsection shall 
not be appealable or reviewable in any manner. 
(d) PROTECTING STATUS OF TRANSFERRED EMPLOYEES.— 
(1) NONREDUCTION IN PAY, RANK, OR GRADE.—The transfer 
of any individual under this section shall not cause that indi-
vidual to be separated or reduced in basic pay, rank or grade. 
(2) LEAVE AND COMPENSATORY TIME.—Any annual leave, 
sick leave, or other leave, or compensatory time, to the credit 
of an individual transferred under this section shall be trans-
ferred to the credit of that individual as a member or an 
employee of the Capitol Police (as the case may be). The treat-
ment of leave or compensatory time transferred under this 
section shall be governed by regulations of the Capitol Police 
Board. 
(3) PROHIBITING IMPOSITION OF PROBATIONARY PERIOD.— 
The Chief of the Capitol Police may not impose a period of 
probation with respect to the transfer of any individual who 
is transferred under this section. 
(e) RULES
OF CONSTRUCTION RELATING
TO EMPLOYEE REP-
RESENTATION.— 
(1) EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION.—Nothing in this Act shall 
be construed to authorize any labor organization that rep-
resented an individual who was a Library of Congress police 
employee or a Library of Congress police civilian employee 
before the individual’s transfer date to represent that individual 
as a member of the Capitol Police or an employee of the 
Capitol Police after the individual’s transfer date. 
(2) AGREEMENTS
NOT
APPLICABLE.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be construed to authorize any collective bargaining agree-
ment (or any related court order, stipulated agreement, or 
agreement to the terms or conditions of employment) applicable 
to Library of Congress police employees or to Library of Con-
gress police civilian employees to apply to members of the 
Capitol Police or to civilian employees of the Capitol Police. 
(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION RELATING TO PERSONNEL AUTHORITY 
OF THE CHIEF OF THE CAPITOL POLICE.—Nothing in this Act shall 
be construed to affect the authority of the Chief of the Capitol 
Police to— 
(1) terminate the employment of a member of the Capitol 
Police or a civilian employee of the Capitol Police; or 
(2) transfer any individual serving as a member of the 
Capitol Police or a civilian employee of the Capitol Police to 
another position with the Capitol Police. 
(g) TRANSFER DATE DEFINED.—In this Act, the term ‘‘transfer 
date’’ means, with respect to an employee—