EMPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.

SEC. 503. EMPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. (a) Establishment.— Section 501(a) (29 U.S.C. 791(a)) is amended— (1) in the first sentence, by striking “the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and” and inserting “the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs”; and (2) by amending the second sentence to read as follows: “Either the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Chairman of the Commission shall serve as co-chair-persons of the Committee or the Director or Chairman shall serve as the sole chairperson of the Committee, as the Director and Chairman jointly determine, from time to time, to be appropriate.”. (b) Standards.—Section 501 (29 U.S.C. 791) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(g) The standards used to determine whether this section has been violated in a complaint alleging nonaffirmative action employment discrimination under this section shall be the standards applied under title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12111 et seq.) and the provisions of sections 501 through 504, and 510, of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12201–12204 and 12210), as such sections relate to employment.”.