[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5099 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5099

To require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to submit 
 to Congress a plan to ensure that the executive branch of Government 
  has a full workforce composed of qualified employees, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 14, 2019

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to submit 
 to Congress a plan to ensure that the executive branch of Government 
  has a full workforce composed of qualified employees, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Employee Recruitment and 
Retention Plan Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PLAN TO ENSURE FULL WORKFORCE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 3 months after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management shall submit to Congress a plan, including the actionable 
strategies described in subsection (b), to ensure that the executive 
branch of Government has a full workforce composed of qualified 
employees.
    (b) Actionable Strategies Described.--The actionable strategies 
described in this subsection are to--
            (1) hire new employees for vacant positions or positions 
        that are predicted to be vacant within 2 years after the date 
        of the enactment of this section;
            (2) attract at least 1 qualified applicant for each job 
        opening not later than 2 weeks after the date such opening is 
        made available for applicants to apply; and
            (3) prevent the loss of institutional knowledge when an 
        employee leaves the executive branch.
    (c) Employee Defined.--In this section, the term ``employee''--
            (1) has the meaning given that term in section 2105 of 
        title 5, United States Code; and
            (2) includes an employee of the United States Postal 
        Service or of the Postal Regulatory Commission.
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