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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 3192 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide back pay to reinstated employees of the Department of Veterans |
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| 6 | 6 | | Affairs, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MAY5, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | ENGintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 11 | 11 | | on Veterans’ Affairs |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To provide back pay to reinstated employees of the |
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| 14 | 14 | | Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | ‘‘This Act may be cited as the Reinstating Employee 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Salaries To Original Rates and Entitlements Act’’ or the 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | ‘‘RESTORE Act’’. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. BACK PAY FOR REINSTATED EMPLOYEES OF THE 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (a) B |
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| 24 | 24 | | ACKPAY.—Any individual who was an employee 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | of the Department of Veterans Affairs (including employ-10 |
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| 27 | 27 | | ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HR 3192 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | ees who were serving under a probationary or trial period 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | due to a promotion) and who was involuntarily removed 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | and subsequently reinstated or appointed to a position at 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | the Department during the period beginning on January 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | 20, 2025, and ending on the date of the enactment of this 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Act shall be entitled to back pay in accordance with sec-6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | tion 5596 of title 5, United States Code. 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (b) L |
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| 37 | 37 | | IMITATION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | any individual removed from a political position. 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (c) P |
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| 40 | 40 | | OLITICALPOSITIONDEFINED.—In this section, 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | the term ‘‘political position’’ means— 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (1) a position described under sections 5312 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | through 5316 of title 5, United States Code (relat-13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ing to the Executive Schedule); 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) a noncareer appointee (as that term is de-15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | fined in section 3132(a) of such title); or 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (3) a position in the executive branch of the 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Government of a confidential or policy-determining 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | character under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations. 20 |
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