[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3509-S3510]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 487. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title XI, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. CLARIFICATION OF LIMITATION ON EXPEDITED HIRING 
                   AUTHORITY FOR POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS.

       Section 3116(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     total number of students

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     that the head of an agency may appoint under this section 
     during a fiscal year may not exceed the number equal to 15 
     percent of the number of students that the agency head 
     appointed during the previous fiscal year to a position at 
     the GS-11 level, or an equivalent level, or below.''.
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