[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3061 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3061

 To provide that a Federal employee shall be ineligible for an annual 
  pay adjustment before completing at least 1 year of service, and to 
 revise the criteria governing appointments in the competitive service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 1993

  Mr. Duncan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that a Federal employee shall be ineligible for an annual 
  pay adjustment before completing at least 1 year of service, and to 
 revise the criteria governing appointments in the competitive service.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY FOR ANNUAL PAY ADJUSTMENTS.

    Section 5303 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(h)(1) An employee shall be ineligible for a pay adjustment under 
this section unless such employee has completed at least 1 year of 
continuous Government service, determined as of the beginning of the 
last applicable pay period before the date on which such adjustment 
would take effect.
    ``(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), continuity of service shall 
be considered broken if there occurs any break in service of 3 days or 
longer.''.

SEC. 2. FILLING VACANT POSITIONS IN THE COMPETITIVE SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any provision of title 5, United 
States Code, or any other provision of law, in filling a position in 
the competitive service, an appointing officer shall exercise such 
officer's discretion solely on the basis of merit and fitness and 
without regard to an applicant's civil service status or years of 
Government service or any other similar factor.
    (b) Regulations.--The Office of Personnel Management may prescribe 
any regulations necessary to carry out this section.

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