Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees
Part III · Chapter 72 — Antidiscrimination; Right to Petition Congress
§ 7211. Employees’ right to petition Congress
Statutory text
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.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 95–454 title VII § 703(a)(3) · 92 Stat. 1111
Enacted · 5 U.S.C. § 7211
(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title VII, § 703(a)(3), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1217.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title VII, § 703(a)(3), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1217.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(3) by adding at the end thereof the following new subchapter:
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
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, § 701, , 92 Stat. 1191.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective 90 days after , see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title.
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title VII, § 703(a)(3), , 92 Stat. 1217.)