SECTION. 1. AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT
OF 1967.
(a) APPLICATION
TO
HOUSE
OF
REPRESENTA-
TIVES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The rights and protections
of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of
1967 (29 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) shall, subject to para-
graph (2), apply with respect to any individual who
occupies an employment position or who is an appli-
cant for an employment position, as well as to any
employing authority of the House of Representa-
tives.
(2) ADMINISTRATION.—In the administration of
this subsection, the remedies and procedures re-
ferred to in the Fair Employment Practices Resolu-
tion shall apply.
(3) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWER.—The
provisions of paragraph (2) are enacted by the
House of Representatives as an exercise of the rule-
making power of the House of Representatives, with
full recognition of the right of the House to change
its rules, in the same manner, and to the same ex-
tent as in any other rule of the House.
(b) APPLICATION TO INSTRUMENTALITIES OF THE
CONGRESS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The rights and protections
of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of
1967 (29 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) shall, subject to para-
graph (2), apply with respect to any individual who
is an employee of, or an applicant for employment
with, an instrumentality of the Congress.
(2) ESTABLISHMENT OF REMEDIES AND PRO-
CEDURES.—The chief official of each instrumentality
of the Congress shall establish remedies and proce-
dures to be utilized with respect to the rights and
protections provided pursuant to paragraph (1).
(3) REPORT TO THE CONGRESS.—The chief of-
ficial of each instrumentality of the Congress shall,
after establishing remedies and procedures for pur-
poses of paragraph (2), submit to the Congress a re-
port describing the remedies and procedures.
SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT TO
INSTRUMENTALITIES OF THE CONGRESS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The rights and protections of the
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.)
shall, subject to subsection (b), apply with respect to any
individual who is employed by an instrumentality of the
Congress.
(b) ESTABLISHMENT
OF REMEDIES
AND PROCE-
DURES.—The chief official of each instrumentality of the
Congress shall establish remedies and procedures to be
utilized with respect to the rights and protections provided
pursuant to subsection (a).
(c) REPORT TO THE CONGRESS.—The chief official
of each instrumentality of the Congress shall, after estab-
lishing remedies and procedures for purposes of subsection
(b), submit to the Congress a report describing the rem-
edies and procedures.
(d) ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL.—The Architect of
the Capitol shall, no later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, submit a report to the Congress
describing steps taken to implement section 8(b) of the
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1989 (2 U.S.C.
60k(b)).
SEC. 3. RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFE-
TY AND HEALTH ACT.
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that
the Committee on House Administration should review the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C.
651 et seq.) and make recommendations to the House of
Representatives regarding the application of such Act to
the House.
SEC. 4. JUDICIAL REVIEW.
(a) APPLICATION
TO
HOUSE
OF
REPRESENTA-
TIVES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any individual who occupies
an employment position or who is an applicant for
an employment position, and who has been aggrieved
by a violation of section 2(a) of the Fair Employ-
ment 
Practices 
Resolution 
(relating 
to 
non-
discrimination), section 1(a)(1) of this Act, section
117(a)(2)(A) of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (2
U.S.C. 60l), section 8(a)(1) of the Fair Labor
Standards Amendment of 1989 (2 U.S.C. 60k), or
section 509(b)(2)(A) of the Americans with Disabil-
ities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12209(b)(2)(A)) may,
following a final decision pursuant to the Fair Em-
ployment Practices Resolution regarding such viola-
tion, petition for review by the United States Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
(2) VIOLATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.—It is the sense of the House
of Representatives that the Rules of the House of
Representatives should be amended to address the
issue of the source of payments made by the House
to satisfy a judgment against a Representative in, or
Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress
who has been found guilty by the United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of a viola-
tion of one of the sections referred to in paragraph
(1).
(b) APPLICATION TO THE INSTRUMENTALITIES OF
THE CONGRESS.—
(1) AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT
OF 1967.—Any employee of an instrumentality of the
Congress, who has been aggrieved by a violation of
section 1(b)(1) of this Act may, following a final de-
cision pursuant to section 1(b)(2) of this Act, peti-
tion for review by the United States Court of Ap-
peals for the Federal Circuit.
(2) AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT.—Any
employee of an instrumentality of the Congress who
has been aggrieved by a violation of section
509(c)(1) of the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990 (42 U.S.C. 12209(c)(1)) may, following a final
decision pursuant to subsection (c)(2) of such Act,
petition for review by the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
(3) CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1991.—Any employee
of an instrumentality of the Congress who has been
aggrieved by a violation of section 117(b)(1) of the
Civil Rights Act of 1991 (2 U.S.C. 60l) may, follow-
ing a final decision pursuant to subsection (b)(3) of
such Act, petition for review by the United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
(4) FAIR
LABOR
STANDARDS
ACT.—Any em-
ployee of an instrumentality of the Congress who
has been aggrieved by a violation of section 2(a) of
this Act may, following a final decision pursuant to
section 2(b) of this Act, petition for review by the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Cir-
cuit.
(c) SCOPE OF JUDICIAL REVIEW.—A petition for re-
view authorized by subsection (a) or (b) shall be filed not
later than 90 days following receipt by the aggrieved indi-
vidual of a written final decision referred to in such sub-
section. The court shall decide all relevant questions of
law and shall interpret constitutional and statutory provi-
sions. The court shall set aside the decision if the court
determines that the decision is—
(1) arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion,
or otherwise not consistent with law;
(2) not made consistent with required proce-
dures; or
(3) not supported by substantial evidence.
In making its determination, the court shall review the
whole record or those parts of the record cited by a party,
and due account shall be taken of prejudicial error. If the
aggrieved individual is the prevailing party in an appeal
under this section, a reasonable attorney’s fee may be al-
lowed by the court in accordance with the standards estab-
lished under section 706(k) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
(42 U.S.C. 2000e–5(k)).’’.
SEC. 5. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT.—Section
509 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42
U.S.C. 12209(b)(2)) is amended—
(1) by amending subsection (b)(2)(B) to read
as follows:
‘‘(B) ADMINISTRATION.—This paragraph
shall be administered according to the Fair Em-
ployment Practices Resolution (House Resolu-
tion 558 of the One Hundredth Congress, as
agreed to October 4, 1988), as incorporated
into the Rules of the House of Representatives
as rule LI, or any other provision or resolution
that continues in effect the provisions of such
resolution.’’; and
(2) in subsection (c)(2) by striking ‘‘Such rem-
edies and procedures shall apply exclusively.’’.
(b) CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1991.—Section 117 of the
Civil Rights Act of 1991 (2 U.S.C. 60l) is amended—
(1) by amending subsection (a)(2)(B) to read
as follows:
‘‘(B) ADMINISTRATION.—This paragraph
shall be administered according to the Fair Em-
ployment Practices Resolution (House Resolu-
tion 558 of the One Hundredth Congress, as
agreed to October 4, 1988), as incorporated
into the Rules of the House of Representatives
as rule LI, or any other provision or resolution
that continues in effect the provisions of such
resolution.’’; and
(2) in section (b)(2) by striking ‘‘Such remedies
and procedures shall apply exclusively, except for the
employees who are defined as Senate employees, in
section 301(c)(1).’’.
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act—
(1) the terms ‘‘employment position’’ and ‘‘em-
ploying authority’’ have the meaning given such
terms in the Fair Employment Practices Resolution;
(2) the term ‘‘Fair Employment Practices Reso-
lution’’ means House Resolution 558 of the One
Hundredth Congress, as agreed to October 4, 1988,
and as incorporated into the Rules of the House of
Representatives as rule LI, or any other provision or
resolution that continues in effect the provisions of
such resolution; and
(3) the term ‘‘instrumentalities of the Con-
gress’’ shall include the following: the Architect of
the Capitol, the Congressional Budget Office, the
General Accounting Office, the Government Printing
Office, the Library of Congress, the Office of Tech-
nology Assessment, and the United States Botanic
Garden, except that—
(A) for purposes of sections 1(b) and
4(b)(1), such term shall not include the Library
of Congress; and
(B) for purposes of section 4(b)(4), and of
subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 2, such
term shall not include the Architect of the Cap-
itol.
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