[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2788 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2788


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 19, 2021

    Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the cap on full-
time employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs who provide equal 
                   employment opportunity counseling.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``VA Equal Employment Opportunity 
Counselor Modernization Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF CAP ON FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS WHO PROVIDE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY 
              COUNSELING.

    (a) In General.--Section 516 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (g); and
            (2) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (g).
    (b) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the 
Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of 
Representatives a report regarding the effect of the amendment under 
subsection (a).

            Passed the House of Representatives May 18, 2021.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.