---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 9205"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "9205"
heading: "Procedures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/9205"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart H — Access to Criminal History Record Information"
  - "Chapter 92 — Prohibition on Criminal History Inquiries Prior to Conditional Offer"
---

# §9205. Procedures

- (a) **Appeals.—** The [Director](/usc/5/8401.md?p=8) of the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall by rule establish procedures providing for an appeal from any adverse action taken under [section 9204](/usc/5/9204.md) by not later than 30 days after the date of the action.
- (b) **Applicability of Other Laws.—** An adverse action taken under [section 9204](/usc/5/9204.md) (including a determination in an appeal from such an action under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section) shall not be subject to—
  - (1) the procedures under [chapter 75](/usc/5/chptIII/sptF/ch75.md); or
  - (2) except as provided in [subsection (a)](#a) of this section, appeal or judicial review.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title XI, § 1122(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1607.)