A bill to amend chapter 5, subchapter II, of title 5, United States Code, to provide for improved administrative procedures.

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States that in the event that an agency employee who presides at the reception of evidence becomes unavailable before rendering a decision, such decision shall be made by an employee qualified to preside at hearings. Prohibits an employee from participating on an appeal board of an agency if he or she participated in the decision by the agency except as a witness or counsel before such appeals board, except that an employee shall not be considered a participant in such decision solely by virtue of his or her general organizational or supervisory responsibility for such functions. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 554)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 16 February 1977

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