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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5174 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5174

 To allow additional appointing authorities to select individuals from 
                   competitive service certificates.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2014

  Mr. Connolly (for himself and Mr. Wittman) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL

 
 To allow additional appointing authorities to select individuals from 
                   competitive service certificates.

    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 ``Competitive Service Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL APPOINTING AUTHORITIES FOR COMPETITIVE SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Section 3317 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at end the following:
    ``(c) Other Appointing Authorities.--
            ``(1) In general.--During the 240-day period beginning on 
        the date of issuance of a certificate of eligibles under 
        subsection (a), an appointing authority other than the 
        appointing authority requesting the certificate (in this 
        subsection referred to as the `other appointing authority') may 
        select an individual from that certificate in accordance with 
        paragraph (2) for an appointment to a position that is--
                    ``(A) in the same occupational series as the 
                position for which the certification of eligibles was 
                issued (in this subsection referred to as the `original 
                position'); and
                    ``(B) at a similar grade level as the original 
                position.
            ``(2) Requirements.--The selection of an individual under 
        paragraph (1)--
                    ``(A) shall be made in accordance with this 
                subchapter; and
                    ``(B) may be made without any additional posting 
                under section 3327, except that before selecting an 
                individual in accordance with paragraph (1) of this 
                section, the other appointing authority shall provide 
                notice of the available position to employees of such 
                authority.
            ``(3) Applicability.--An appointing authority requesting a 
        certificate of eligibles may share the certificate with another 
        appointing authority only if the announcement of the original 
        position provided notice that the resulting list of eligible 
        candidates may be used by another appointing authority.
            ``(4) Collective bargaining obligations.--Nothing in this 
        subsection limits any collective bargaining obligation of an 
        agency under chapter 71.''.
    (b) Regulations.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management shall issue an interim final rule with comment to carry out 
the amendment made by subsection (a).
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