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[CITE: 5USC7211]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
           Subpart F--Labor-Management and Employee Relations
 
       CHAPTER 72--ANTIDISCRIMINATION; RIGHT TO PETITION CONGRESS
 
          SUBCHAPTER II--EMPLOYEES' RIGHT TO PETITION CONGRESS
 
Sec. 7211. Employees' right to petition Congress

    The right of employees, individually or collectively, to petition 
Congress or a Member of Congress, or to furnish information to either 
House of Congress, or to a committee or Member thereof, may not be 
interfered with or denied.

(Added Pub. L. 95-454, title VII, Sec. 703(a)(3), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 
Stat. 1217.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions of this section were contained in section 7102 of this 
title prior to the general amendment of chapter 71 of this title by Pub. 
L. 95-454, title VII, Sec. 701, Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1191.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of 
Pub. L. 95-454, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note 
under section 1101 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 39 section 1002.
