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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Latest Action · August 24, 2023
Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
This bill would remove special removal and disciplinary procedures for certain Department of Veterans Affairs employees and bring them under the same federal employee rules that apply government-wide. Specifically, it repeals expedited removal and demotion processes that were created for VA staff under a 2017 law, while preserving whistleblower protections for those who report wrongdoing. The legislation also restores previous disciplinary and grievance procedures for Veterans Health Administration personnel that had been changed by that 2017 law. The bill affects VA employees and supervisors who would now follow standard federal civil service rules for discipline and removal rather than the streamlined processes currently in place. No specific funding or implementation timeline is mentioned in the legislation itself.
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