Title: To amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to clarify that employees of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China are to be treated as covered employees for purposes of such Act.
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
This bill amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to specify that it covers employees of the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China and the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the Helsinki Commission).

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4393 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4393

 To amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to clarify that 
 employees of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and 
  the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of 
 China are to be treated as covered employees for purposes of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 14, 2017

   Mr. Smith of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to clarify that 
 employees of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and 
  the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of 
 China are to be treated as covered employees for purposes of such Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CLARIFICATION OF COVERAGE OF EMPLOYEES OF HELSINKI AND CHINA 
              COMMISSIONS UNDER CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 
              1995.

    (a) Clarification of Coverage.--Section 101 of the Congressional 
Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1301) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Except as otherwise'' and inserting ``(a) 
        In General.--Except as otherwise''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Clarification of Coverage of Employees of Certain 
Commissions.--
            ``(1) Coverage.--With respect to the China Commission and 
        the Helsinki Commission--
                    ``(A) any individual who is an employee of such 
                Commission shall be considered a covered employee for 
                purposes of this Act; and
                    ``(B) the Commission shall be considered an 
                employing office for purposes of this Act.
            ``(2) Definitions.--In paragraph (1)--
                    ``(A) the term `China Commission' means the 
                Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's 
                Republic of China established under title III of the 
                U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-286; 
                22 U.S.C. 6911 et seq.); and
                    ``(B) the term `Helsinki Commission' means the 
                Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe 
                established under the Act entitled `An Act to establish 
                a Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe' 
                (Public Law 94-304; 22 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the Congressional 
Accountability Act of 1995.
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