119-hr932

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 932 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 932

 To amend titles 38 and 5, United States Code, to ensure that certain 
employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs are subject to the same 
 removal, demotion, and suspension policies as other employees of the 
 Federal Government, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 4, 2025

Mr. Fitzpatrick (for himself and Mr. Deluzio) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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

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 A BILL

 To amend titles 38 and 5, United States Code, to ensure that certain 
employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs are subject to the same 
 removal, demotion, and suspension policies as other employees of the 
 Federal Government, 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 ``Protecting VA Employees Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF SEPARATE REMOVAL, DEMOTION, AND SUSPENSION PROCESSES 
 FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) Repeal.--

    (1) Title 38.--

Section 714 of title 38, United States Code, 
 is amended--
        (A) by striking subsections

    (a) ,

    (b) ,
            (c) ,
            (d) , and

    (g) ;
        (B) by redesignating subsections

    (e) ,

    (f) , and

    (h) as subsections

    (a) ,

    (b) , and
            (c) , respectively;
            (C) in subsection

    (a) , as so redesignated, by 
 striking ``under subsection

    (a) '' each place it 
 appears; and
            (D) in subsection
            (c) , as so redesignated--
            (i) by striking paragraphs

    (3) and

    (4) ; and
            (ii) by redesignating paragraphs

    (5) and

    (6) as paragraphs

    (3) and

    (4) , respectively.

    (2) Title 5.--

Section 4303

    (f) of title 5, United States 
 Code, is amended--
        (A) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking the comma at the 
 end and inserting ``, or'';
        (B) in paragraph

    (3) , by striking ``, or'' and 
 inserting a period; and
            (C) by striking paragraph

    (4) .

    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Chapter 7 of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended--

    (1) in 

section 719, by striking ``under 

section 713, 714, 
 or 7461 of this title'' each place it appears and inserting 
 ``under 

section 713 or 7461 of this title'';

    (2) in 

section 714, as amended by subsection

    (a) , by 
 striking the section heading and inserting ``Protections for 
 whistleblowers from removal, demotion, and suspension'';

    (3) by redesignating 

section 714 as 

section 734;

    (4) by transferring 

section 734, as so redesignated, so as 
 to appear after 

section 733; and

    (5) in the table of sections--
        (A) by striking the item relating to 

section 714; 
 and
        (B) by inserting after the item relating to 

section 733 the following new item:

``734. Protections for whistleblowers from removal, demotion, and 
 suspension.''.

SEC. 3. RESTORATION OF CERTAIN DISCIPLINARY AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES 
 FOR PERSONNEL OF THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION.

 The following provisions of title 38, United States Code, are each 
amended to read as such provisions read on the day before the date of 
the enactment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and 
Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-41):

    (1) Section 7461

    (b) .

    (2) Section 7462

    (b) .

    (3) Section 7463
            (c) .
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