[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2918 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2918

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the eligibility of 
employees of a land management agency in a time-limited appointment to 
  compete for a permanent appointment at any Federal agency, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2016

  Mr. Tester introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the eligibility of 
employees of a land management agency in a time-limited appointment to 
  compete for a permanent appointment at any Federal agency, and for 
                            other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY OF EMPLOYEES IN A TIME-LIMITED APPOINTMENT TO 
              COMPETE FOR A PERMANENT APPOINTMENT AT ANY FEDERAL 
              AGENCY.

    Section 9602 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``any land management 
        agency or any other agency (as defined in section 101 of title 
        31) under the internal merit promotion procedures of the 
        applicable agency'' and inserting ``that land management agency 
        when the agency is accepting applications from individuals 
        within the agency's workforce under merit promotion procedures, 
        or at any agency, including a land management agency, when the 
        agency is accepting applications from individuals outside its 
        own workforce under merit promotion procedures of the 
        applicable agency,''; and
            (2) in subsection (d) by inserting ``of the agency from 
        which the former employee was most recently separated'' after 
        ``deemed a time-limited employee''.
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