[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5733-S5734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6211. Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself and Mr. Sasse) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for 
military activities

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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:

        Beginning on page 521, strike line 22 and all that follows 
     through page 522, line 14, and insert the following:
       (d) Post-award Employment Obligations.--Each scholarship 
     recipient, as a condition of receiving a scholarship under 
     the Program, shall enter into an agreement under which the 
     recipient agrees to work for a period equal to the length of 
     the scholarship, following receipt of the student's degree or 
     specialized program certification, in the cybersecurity 
     mission of--
       (1) an executive agency (as defined in section 105 of title 
     5, United States Code); or
       (2) Congress, including any agency, entity, office, or 
     commission established in the legislative branch.
       (e) Hiring Authority.--
       (1) Appointment in excepted service.--Notwithstanding any 
     provision of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, 
     governing appointments in the competitive service, a Federal 
     agency shall appoint in the excepted service an individual 
     who has completed the eligible degree program for which a 
     scholarship was awarded under the Program.
       (2) Noncompetitive conversion.--Except as provided in 
     paragraph (4), upon fulfillment of the service term, an 
     employee appointed under paragraph (1) may be converted 
     noncompetitively to term, career-conditional, or career 
     appointment.
       (3) Timing of conversion.--An agency may noncompetitively 
     convert a term employee appointed under paragraph (2) to a 
     career-conditional or career appointment before the term 
     appointment expires.
       (4) Authority to decline conversion.--An agency may decline 
     to make the noncompetitive conversion or appointment under 
     paragraph (2) for cause.
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