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§1437a Training and Education Programs of Employing Offices
Title 2 › Chapter 24— CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY › Subchapter V— MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 1437a
Summary
Employing offices must train covered employees about their rights under this chapter and about the complaint procedures in subchapter IV. Each office must report that training to the House Committee on House Administration and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration within 45 days after Congress begins (starting with the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress); the first report was due by 180 days after December 21, 2018. It excludes House and Senate offices.
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Title 2, §1437a
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(a)Each employing office shall develop and implement a program to train and educate covered employees of the office in the rights and protections provided under this chapter, including the procedures available under subchapter IV to consider alleged violations of this chapter.
(b)(1)Not later than 45 days after the beginning of each Congress (beginning with the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress), each employing office shall submit a report to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate on the implementation of the program required under subsection (a).
(2)Not later than 180 days after December 21, 2018, each employing office shall submit the report described in paragraph (1) to the Committees described in such paragraph.
(c)This section does not apply to an employing office of the House of Representatives or an employing office of the Senate.
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References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 104–1, Jan. 23, 1995, 109 Stat. 3, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 1301 of this title and Tables.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 509 of Pub. L. 104–1 was renumbered section 511 and is classified to section 1438 of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective upon expiration of the 180-day period beginning on Dec. 21, 2018, with provisions for effect on pending proceedings, see section 401 of Pub. L. 115–397, set out as an
Effective Date
of 2018 Amendment note under section 1301 of this title.
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2 U.S.C. § 1437a
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