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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 7173 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure scientific integrity in the activities of the National Institutes of... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Political appointee defined

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Section 2 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 201 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: The term political employee — means any individual occupying— a position described under sections 5312 through 5316 of title 5, United States Code (relating to the Executive Schedule); a position under a noncareer appointment (as that term is defined under section 3132(a) of such title) in the Senior Executive Service; a position in the executive branch of the Government of a confidential or policy-determining character under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations; a position in schedule G of the excepted service (established by Executive Order 14317 titled Creating Schedule G in the Excepted Service ); or any other position that has been excepted from the competitive service by reason of the confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character of the position; and includes any individual acting on behalf of an individual described in paragraph (1). .
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