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105TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105-292
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS EMPLOYMENT
DISCRIMINATION RESOLUTION AND ADJUDICATION ACT
OCTOBER 2, 1997.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. STUMP, from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1703]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1703) to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide
for improved and expedited procedures for resolving complaints of
unlawful employment discrimination arising within the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs, having considered the same, reports fa-
vorably thereon with amendments and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Department of Veterans Affairs Employment Dis-
crimination Resolution and Adjudication Act.
SEC. 2. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS.
(a) IN GENERAL.-(1) Chapter 5 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by in-
serting at the end of subchapter I the following new section:
§ 516. Equal employment responsibilities
(a) The Secretary shall provide that the employment discrimination complaint
resolution system within the Department be established and administered so as to
encourage timely and fair resolution of concerns and complaints. The Secretary shall
take steps to ensure that the system is administered in an objective, fair, and effec-
tive manner and in a manner that is perceived by employees and other interested
parties as being objective, fair, and effective.
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