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[CITE: 31USC753]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                           SUBTITLE I--GENERAL
 
                  CHAPTER 7--GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
 
                 SUBCHAPTER IV--PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD
 
Sec. 753. Duties and powers

    (a) The General Accounting Office Personnel Appeals Board may 
consider and order corrective or disciplinary action in a case arising 
from--
        (1) an officer or employee appeal about a removal, suspension 
    for more than 14 days, reduction in grade or pay, or furlough of not 
    more than 30 days;
        (2) a prohibited personnel practice under section 732(b)(2) of 
    this title;
        (3) a prohibited political activity under section 732(b)(3) of 
    this title;
        (4) a decision of an appropriate unit of employees for 
    collective bargaining;
        (5) an election or certification of a collective bargaining 
    representative;
        (6) a matter appealable to the Board under the labor-management 
    relations program under section 732(e)(2) of this title, including a 
    labor practice prohibited under section 732(e)(1) of this title;
        (7) an action involving discrimination prohibited under section 
    732(f)(1) of this title;
        (8) an issue about Office personnel the Comptroller General by 
    regulation decides the Board shall resolve; and
        (9) an action involving discrimination prohibited under section 
    312(e)(2) \1\ of the Architect of the Capitol Human Resources Act.
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.

    (b) The Board has no authority to issue a stay of any reduction in 
force action.
    (c) The Board may delegate to a member or a panel of members the 
authority to act under subsection (a) of this section. A decision of a 
member or panel under subsection (a) is deemed to be a final decision of 
the Board unless the Board reconsiders the decision under subsection (d) 
of this section.
    (d) On motion of a party or on its own initiative, the Board may 
reconsider a decision under subsection (a) of this section by the 30th 
day after the decision is made.
    (e) The Board shall prescribe regulations--
        (1) providing for officer and employee appeals consistent with 
    sections 7701 and 7702 of title 5; and
        (2) on the operating procedure of the Board.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 901; Pub. L. 103-283, title 
III, Sec. 312(e)(4)(B), July 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 1446; Pub. L. 104-53, 
title II, Sec. 213, Nov. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 535.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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753(a)...............................  31:52-3(h).                     Feb. 15,
 1980, Pub. L. 96-191, Sec.
                                                                        4(h), (
j), (k), (m), 94 Stat. 30, 31.
753(b)...............................  31:52-3(j).
753(c)...............................  31:52-3(k).
753(d)...............................  31:52-3(m).
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    In the section, the words ``officer or'' are added for consistency 
in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.
    In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words ``decide'' and 
``(where appropriate)'' are omitted as surplus. In clause (6), the words 
``relations program'' are substituted for ``system'' for consistency. In 
clause (8), the words ``most appropriately'' are omitted as surplus.
    In subsection (b), the words ``delegate . . . to act'' are 
substituted for ``designate . . . to take any action which the Board is 
authorized to take'' for consistency and to eliminate unnecessary words. 
The words ``individual'' and ``reopened and'' are omitted as surplus.
    In subsection (c), the words ``reopen and'' are omitted as surplus.
    In subsection (d)(1), the words ``the principles of'' are omitted as 
surplus.

                       References in Text

    Section 312(e)(2) of the Architect of the Capitol Human Resources 
Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(9), was classified to section 166b-
7(e)(2) of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and was 
repealed by Pub. L. 104-1, title V, Sec. 504(c)(1), Jan. 23, 1995, 109 
Stat. 41, except as provided in section 1435 of Title 2, The Congress.


                               Amendments

    1995--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-53, Sec. 213(2), added subsec. (b). 
Former subsec. (b) redesignated (c).
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-53, Sec. 213(1), (3), redesignated subsec. 
(b) as (c) and in second sentence substituted ``under subsection (d)'' 
for ``under subsection (c)''. Former subsec. (c) redesignated (d).
    Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 104-53, Sec. 213(1), redesignated 
subsecs. (c) and (d) as (d) and (e), respectively.
    1994--Subsec. (a)(9). Pub. L. 103-283 added par. (9). See 
Application of Provisions Amended by Pub. L. 103-283 note below.


          Application of Provisions Amended by Pub. L. 103-283

    Provisions of this section amended by section 312(e) of Pub. L. 103-
283 to be applied and administered as if section 312(e) and the 
amendments made by section 312(e) had not been enacted, see section 
504(c)(2) of Pub. L. 104-1, set out as a note under section 751 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 732, 754, 755 of this title.
