IIB 

115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1690 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 25, 2017 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

AN ACT 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit an annual report 

regarding performance awards and bonuses awarded to 

certain high-level employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Vet3 erans Affairs Bonus Transparency Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT ON PERFORMANCE AWARDS AND 

5 BONUSES AWARDED TO CERTAIN HIGH6 LEVEL EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 

7 VETERANS AFFAIRS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 7 of title 38, United 

9 States Code, is amended by inserting after section 717 the 

10 following new section: 

11 ‘‘§ 718. Annual report on performance awards and bo12 nuses awarded to certain high-level em13 ployees 

14 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after 

15 the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit to 

16 the appropriate committees of Congress a report that con17 tains, for the most recent fiscal year ending before the 

18 submittal of the report, a description of the performance 

19 awards and bonuses awarded to Regional Office Directors 

20 of the Department, Directors of Medical Centers of the 

21 Department, Directors of Veterans Integrated Service 

22 Networks, and any other individual employed in a senior 

23 executive position. 

24 ‘‘(b) ELEMENTS.—Each report submitted under sub25 section (a) shall include the following with respect to each 


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1 performance award or bonus awarded to an individual de2 scribed in such subsection: 

3 ‘‘(1) The amount of each award or bonus. 

4 ‘‘(2) The job title of the individual awarded the 

5 award or bonus. 

6 ‘‘(3) The location where the individual awarded 

7 the award or bonus works. 

8 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

9 ‘‘(1) The term ‘appropriate committees of Con10 gress’ means— 

11 ‘‘(A) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

12 and the Committee on Appropriations of the 

13 Senate; and 

14 ‘‘(B) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 

15 and the Committee on Appropriations of the 

16 House of Representatives. 

17 ‘‘(2) The term ‘individual’ means— 

18 ‘‘(A) a career appointee (as that term is 

19 defined in section 3132(a)(4) of title 5); or 

20 ‘‘(B) any individual who occupies an ad21 ministrative or executive position and who was 

22 appointed under section 7306(a) or section 

23 7401(1) of this title. 

24 ‘‘(3) The term ‘senior executive position’ 

25 means— 


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1 ‘‘(A) with respect to a career appointee (as 

2 that term is defined in section 3132(a)(4) of 

3 title 5), a Senior Executive Service position (as 

4 such term is defined in section 3132(a)(2) of 

5 title 5); and 

6 ‘‘(B) with respect to an individual ap7 pointed under section 7306(a) or section 

8 7401(1) of this title, an administrative or exec9 utive position.’’. 

10 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

11 at the beginning of chapter 7 of such title is amended by 

12 inserting after the item relating to section 717 the fol13 lowing new item: 

‘‘718. Annual report on performance awards and bonuses awarded to certain 

high-level employees.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives July 24, 2017. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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