I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3690 
To provide for the transfer of the Library of Congress police to the United 
States Capitol Police, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2007 
Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. EHLERS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administra-
tion, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastruc-
ture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each 
case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
the committee concerned 
A BILL 
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 Representa-
tives 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.— 
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(1) LIBRARY
OF
CONGRESS
POLICE
EMPLOY-
EES.—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 Congress Police civilian em-
ployee shall be transferred to the United States Cap-
itol Police and shall become a civilian employee of 
the Capitol Police. 
(b) TREATMENT OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS POLICE 
EMPLOYEES.— 
(1) DETERMINATION OF STATUS WITHIN CAP-
ITOL POLICE.— 
(A) ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS MEMBERS 
OF THE CAPITOL POLICE.—A Library of Con-
gress Police employee shall become a member of 
the Capitol Police on the employee’s transfer 
date if the Chief of the Capitol Police deter-
mines and issues a written certification that the 
employee meets each of the following require-
ments: 
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(i) Based on the assumption that such 
employee would perform a period of contin-
uous 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 tak-
ing into account paragraph (3)(A)), on or 
before 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 qualifica-
tions required to be a member of the Cap-
itol Police, as determined by the Chief of 
the Capitol Police. 
(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 re-
quirements, the employee shall become a civil-
ian employee of the Capitol Police on the em-
ployee’s transfer date. 
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(2) FINALITY OF DETERMINATIONS.—Any de-
termination of the Chief of the Capitol Police under 
this subsection shall not be appealable or reviewable 
in any manner. 
(d) PROTECTING STATUS
OF TRANSFERRED EM-
PLOYEES.— 
(1) 
NONREDUCTION
IN
PAY, 
RANK, 
OR 
GRADE.—The transfer of any individual under this 
section shall not cause that individual to be sepa-
rated or reduced in basic pay, rank or grade. 
(2) LEAVE
AND
COMPENSATORY
TIME.—Any 
annual leave, sick leave, or other leave, or compen-
satory time, to the credit of an individual trans-
ferred under this section shall be transferred to the 
credit of that individual as a member or an employee 
of the Capitol Police (as the case may be). The 
treatment of leave or compensatory time transferred 
under this section shall be governed by regulations 
of the Capitol Police Board. 
(e) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION RELATING TO EM-
PLOYEE REPRESENTATION.— 
(1) EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION.—Nothing in 
this Act shall be construed to authorize any labor or-
ganization that represented an individual who was a 
Library of Congress police employee or a Library of 
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Congress police civilian employee before the individ-
ual’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 col-
lective bargaining agreement (or any related court 
order, stipulated agreement, or agreement to the 
terms or conditions of employment) applicable to Li-
brary of Congress police employees or to Library of 
Congress police civilian employees to apply to mem-
bers of the Capitol Police or to civilian employees of 
the Capitol Police. 
(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION RELATING TO PER-
SONNEL AUTHORITY OF THE CHIEF OF THE CAPITOL PO-
LICE.—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 Cap-
itol 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. 
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(g) TRANSFER DATE DEFINED.—In this Act, the 
term ‘‘transfer date’’ means, with respect to an em-
ployee— 
(1) in the case of a Library of Congress Police 
employee who becomes a member of the Capitol Po-
lice, the first day of the first pay period applicable 
to members of the United States Capitol Police 
which begins after the date on which the Chief of 
the Capitol Police issues the written certification for 
the employee under subsection (b)(1); 
(2) in the case of a Library of Congress Police 
employee who becomes a civilian employee of the 
Capitol Police, the first day of the first pay period 
applicable to employees of the United States Capitol 
Police which begins after September 30, 2009; or 
(3) in the case of a Library of Congress Police 
civilian employee, the first day of the first pay pe-
riod applicable to employees of the United States 
Capitol Police which begins after September 30, 
2008. 
SEC. 3. TRANSITION PROVISIONS. 
(a) TRANSFER
AND ALLOCATIONS
OF PROPERTY 
AND APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Effective on the transfer 
date of any Library of Congress Police employee and 
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Library of Congress Police civilian employee who is 
transferred under this Act— 
(A) the assets, liabilities, contracts, prop-
erty, and records associated with the employee 
shall be transferred to the Capitol Police; and 
(B) the unexpended balances of appropria-
tions, authorizations, allocations, and other 
funds employed, used, held, arising from, avail-
able to, or to be made available in connection 
with the employee shall be transferred to and 
made available under the appropriations ac-
counts for the Capitol Police for ‘‘Salaries’’ and 
‘‘General Expenses’’, as applicable. 
(2) JOINT REVIEW.—During the transition pe-
riod, the Chief of the Capitol Police and the Librar-
ian of Congress shall conduct a joint review of the 
assets, liabilities, contracts, property records, and 
unexpended balances of appropriations, authoriza-
tions, allocations, and other funds employed, used, 
held, arising from, available to, or to be made avail-
able in connection with the transfer under this Act. 
(b) TREATMENT OF ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF CER-
TAIN EMPLOYMENT LAWS WITH RESPECT TO TRANS-
FERRED INDIVIDUALS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law and except as provided in paragraph 
(3), in the case of an alleged violation of any covered 
law (as defined in paragraph (4)) which is alleged to 
have occurred prior to the transfer date with respect 
to an individual who is transferred under this Act, 
and for which the individual has not exhausted all 
of the remedies available for the consideration of the 
alleged violation which are provided for employees of 
the Library of Congress under the covered law prior 
to the transfer date, the following shall apply: 
(A) The individual may not initiate any 
procedure which is available for the consider-
ation of the alleged violation of the covered law 
which is provided for employees of the Library 
of Congress under the covered law. 
(B) To the extent that the individual has 
initiated any such procedure prior to the trans-
fer date, the procedure shall terminate and have 
no legal effect. 
(C) Subject to paragraph (2), the indi-
vidual may initiate and participate in any pro-
cedure which is available for the resolution of 
grievances of officers and employees of the Cap-
itol Police under the Congressional Account-
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ability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.) to 
provide for consideration of the alleged viola-
tion. The previous sentence does not apply in 
the case of an alleged violation for which the in-
dividual exhausted all of the available remedies 
which are provided for employees of the Library 
of Congress under the covered law prior to the 
transfer date. 
(2) SPECIAL RULES FOR APPLYING CONGRES-
SIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1995.—In applying 
paragraph (1)(C) with respect to an individual to 
whom this subsection applies, for purposes of the 
consideration of the alleged violation under the Con-
gressional Accountability Act of 1995— 
(A) the date of the alleged violation shall 
be the individual’s transfer date; 
(B) notwithstanding the third sentence of 
section 402(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 1402(a)), 
the individual’s request for counseling under 
such section shall be made not later than 60 
days after the date of the alleged violation; and 
(C) the employing office of the individual 
at the time of the alleged violation shall be the 
Capitol Police Board. 
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