article: SECTION 1. PLACEMENT PROGRAMS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY REDUCTION IN FORCE ACTIONS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Public Servant Priority Placement Act of 1995''. (b) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: ``Sec. 3329b. Placement programs for Federal employees affected by reduction in force actions ``(a) For purposes of this section the term ``agency'' means an ``Executive agency'' as defined under section 105, except such term shall not include the General Accounting Office. ``(b) No later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall establish a Government-wide program and each agency shall establish an agency program to facilitate employment placement for Federal employees who-- ``(1) are scheduled to be separated from service under a reduction in force under-- ``(A) regulations prescribed under section 3502; or ``(B) procedures established under section 3595; or ``(2) are separated from service under such a reduction in force. ``(c) Each agency placement program established under subsection (b) shall provide a system to require the offer of a vacant position in an agency to an employee of such agency affected by a reduction in force action, if-- ``(1) the position cannot be filled within the agency; ``(2) the employee to whom the offer is made is qualified for the offered position; ``(3)(A) the classification of the offered position is equal to or no more than one grade below the classification of the employee's present or last held position; or ``(B)(i) the basic rate of pay of the offered position is equal to the basic rate of pay of the employee's present or last held position; or ``(ii) sections 5362 and 5363 apply to the basic rate of pay of the employee in the offered position; and ``(4) the geographic location of the offered position is within the commuting area of-- ``(A) the residence of the employee; or ``(B) the location of the employee's present or last held position. ``(d) The Government-wide placement program established under subsection (b) shall-- ``(1) coordinate with programs established by agencies for the placement of agency employees affected by a reduction in force action within such agency; and ``(2) provide a system to require the offer of a vacant position in an agency to an employee of another agency affected by a reduction in force action, if-- ``(A) the vacant position cannot be filled through the placement program or otherwise be filled from within the agency in which the position is located; ``(B) the employee to whom the offer is made is well qualified for the offered position; ``(C)(i) the classification of the offered position is equal to the classification of the employee's present or last held position; or ``(ii) the basic rate of pay of the offered position is equal to the basic rate of pay of the employee's present or last held position; and ``(D) the geographic location of the offered position is within the commuting area of-- ``(i) the residence of the employee; or ``(ii) the location of the employee's present or last held position. ``(e)(1) The agency placement program established under this section shall not affect any priority placement program of the Department of Defense that is in operation on the date of the enactment of this section. ``(2) The interagency placement program established under this section shall not affect the priority of placement of any employee under the agency placement program of such employee's employing agency.''. (c) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--(1) The section heading for the second section 3329 (relating to Government-wide list of vacant positions) is amended to read as follows: ``Sec. 3329a. Government-wide list of vacant positions''. (2) The table of sections for chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking out the item relating to the second section 3329 (relating to Government-wide list of vacant positions) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: ``3329a. Government-wide list of vacant positions. ``3329b. Placement programs for Federal employees affected by reduction in force actions.''.
summary: Public Servant Priority Placement Act of 1995 - Amends Federal civil service law to require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish a Government-wide priority placement program, and each Federal agency to establish a similar agency-wide program, for Federal employees affected by a reduction in force.