Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendments Act

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 597 To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to certain employees of the United States Postal Service. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 16, 2019 Mr. CONNOLLY (for himself and Mr. MCKINLEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protec- tion Board to certain employees of the United States Postal Service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Postal Employee Ap- 4 peal Rights Amendments Act’’. 5 SEC. 2. RIGHT OF APPEAL TO MERIT SYSTEMS PROTEC- 6 TION BOARD. 7 Section 1005(a)(4)(A)(ii)(I) of title 39, United States 8 Code, is amended to read as follows: 9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:42 Jan 29, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H597.IH H597 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •HR 597 IH ‘‘(I) is an officer or employee of 1 the Postal Service who— 2 ‘‘(aa) is not represented by a 3 bargaining representative recog- 4 nized under section 1203; and 5 ‘‘(bb) is in a supervisory, 6 professional, technical, clerical, 7 administrative, or managerial po- 8 sition covered by the Executive 9 and Administrative Schedule; 10 and’’. 11 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:42 Jan 29, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H597.IH H597 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS