[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 839 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 839

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow Federal employees to 
  seek election to local office, and otherwise take an active part in 
political management or in political campaigns relating to an election 
                           to such an office.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 1993

 Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut introduced the following bill; which was 
       referred to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow Federal employees to 
  seek election to local office, and otherwise take an active part in 
political management or in political campaigns relating to an election 
                           to such an office.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) paragraph (1) 
of section 7326 of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``(1) an election and the preceding campaign if--
                    ``(A) none of the candidates is to be nominated or 
                elected at that election as representing a party any of 
                whose candidates for presidential elector received 
                votes in the last preceding election at which 
                presidential electors were selected; or
                    ``(B) it involves an election for a municipal or 
                other local office (as defined under regulations which 
                the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe); 
                or''.
    (b)(1) The heading for section 7326 of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 7326. Nonpartisan and certain other political activity 
              permitted''.
    (2) The table of sections for chapter 73 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 7326 and 
inserting the following:

``7326. Nonpartisan and certain other political activity permitted.''.

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