[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3615 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3615

    To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the hiring of 
                  veterans by the Federal Government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 21, 2013

 Mr. Reichert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the hiring of 
                  veterans by the Federal Government.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Careers for Heroes Act''.

SEC. 2. EMPLOYMENT OF VETERANS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

    (a) In General.--Section 4214 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4)(A) The requirement under this paragraph is in addition to the 
appointment of qualified covered veterans under the authority under 
paragraph (1) by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department 
of Defense.
    ``(B) The head of each agency (excluding the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs and the Secretary of Defense), in consultation with the 
Director of the Office of Personnel Management, shall develop and 
implement a plan for exercising the authority specified in subparagraph 
(C) during the five-year period beginning on the date of the enactment 
of this paragraph.
    ``(C) The authority specified in this subparagraph is the authority 
as follows:
            ``(i) The authority under paragraph (1).
            ``(ii) The authority available to the agency concerned 
        under the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (Public 
        Law 105-339) and the amendments made by that Act.
    ``(D) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall 
ensure that under the plans developed under subparagraph (B), agencies 
shall appoint to existing vacancies not fewer than 15,000 qualified 
covered veterans during the five-year period beginning on the date of 
the enactment of this paragraph. For purposes of complying with this 
subparagraph, an appointment pursuant to the authority referred to in 
subparagraph (C)(ii) shall not count toward the number required by this 
subparagraph unless the appointment is to a vacancy in a full-time, 
permanent position.'';
            (2) in subsection (d), in the third sentence, by inserting 
        ``(including, during the five-year period beginning on the date 
        of the enactment of paragraph (4) of subsection (b), the 
        development and implementation by each agency of the plan 
        required under such paragraph, which shall include information 
        regarding the grade or pay level of appointments by the agency 
        under the plan and whether the appointments are, or are 
        converted to, career or career-conditional appointments)'' 
        after ``subsection (b) of this section''; and
            (3) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the matter before subparagraph (A), 
                        by striking ``to the Congress'' and inserting 
                        ``to the appropriate committees of Congress''; 
                        and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
                        ``(including, during the five-year period 
                        beginning on the date of the enactment of 
                        paragraph (4) of subsection (b), the 
                        development and implementation by the agency of 
                        the plan required under such paragraph, which 
                        shall include information regarding the grade 
                        or pay level of appointments by the agency 
                        under the plan and whether the appointments 
                        are, or are converted to, permanent 
                        appointments)'' before the period; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
    ``(3) In this subsection, the term `appropriate committees of 
Congress' means--
            ``(A) the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee 
        on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 
        and
            ``(B) the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee 
        on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of 
        Representatives.''.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall 
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress (as defined under 
section 4214(e)(3) of title 38, United States Code, as amended by 
subsection (a)) a report containing a plan to carry out the amendments 
made by subsection (a).
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