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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5290 

To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the disclosure, public 

documentation, and reporting of Federal employee bonuses, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 14, 2018 

Mr. SANFORD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

A BILL 

To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the disclosure, public documentation, and reporting of Federal employee bonuses, and for other purposes. 

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Employee 

5 Bonus Disclosure Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE, DOCUMENTATION, AND REPORTING 

2 OF PERFORMANCE AWARDS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 45 of title 

4 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 

5 the following: 

6 ‘‘§ 4510. Disclosure, documentation, and reporting of 

7 performance awards 

8 ‘‘(a)(1) Not later than 30 days after the end of fiscal 

9 year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter, the head of each 

10 agency shall submit a report to the Director of the Office 

11 of Personnel Management describing each performance 

12 bonus awarded to an employee of the agency during the 

13 most recently ended fiscal year, the name of the employee 

14 receiving the bonus, and the amount of the bonus. 

15 ‘‘(2) With respect to any performance bonus included 

16 in a report submitted under paragraph (1) that was equal 

17 to or greater than $10,000, the agency head shall include 

18 in the report a detailed description of the reasons why the 

19 bonus was awarded and the metrics used to determine that 

20 such bonus was appropriate. 

21 ‘‘(b) Not later than January 1 of each fiscal year, 

22 the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 

23 shall— 

24 ‘‘(1) publish, on the Office’s public Internet 

25 website, a list containing the name of any employee 

26 receiving a performance bonus in the most recently 


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1 ended fiscal year, the agency that awarded the 

2 bonus, and the amount of the bonus; and 

3 ‘‘(2) submit a report to Congress containing a 

4 list of each performance bonus awarded in the most 

5 recently ended fiscal year that was equal to or great6 er than $10,000, including the reasons why the 

7 bonus was awarded and the metrics used to deter8 mine that the bonus was appropriate, as provided 

9 under subsection (a)(2). 

10 ‘‘(c) For purposes of this section— 

11 ‘‘(1) the term ‘agency’ has the meaning given 

12 such term in section 4501 and includes— 

13 ‘‘(A) the United States Postal Service and 

14 the Postal Regulatory Commission; and 

15 ‘‘(B) notwithstanding the matter following 

16 subparagraph (G) of such section, the Ten17 nessee Valley Authority and the Central Bank 

18 for Cooperatives; and 

19 ‘‘(2) the term ‘performance bonus’ includes any 

20 performance-based bonus, including a bonus under 

21 this subchapter or section 5384.’’. 

22 (b) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by sub23 section (a) shall apply to any performance bonus (as that 

24 term is described in section 4510 of title 5, United States 


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1 Code, as added by such subsection) made on or after the 

2 date of enactment of this Act. 

3 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

4 for subchapter I of chapter 45 of title 5, United States 

5 Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to 

6 section 4509 the following: 

‘‘4510. Disclosure, documentation, and reporting of performance awards.’’. 

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