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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3264 

To improve Federal internship programs to facilitate hiring of full-time 

Federal employees, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 20, 2009 

Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia (for himself and Mr. BILBRAY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

A BILL 

To improve Federal internship programs to facilitate hiring 

of full-time Federal employees, 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 Internship Im5 provement Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FEDERAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS. 

7 (a) INTERNSHIP COORDINATOR.—The head of each 

8 Federal agency operating an internship program shall ap9 point an individual within such agency to serve as an in10 ternship coordinator. 


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1 (b) ONLINE INFORMATION.— 

2 (1) AGENCIES.—The head of each Federal 

3 agency operating an internship program shall make 

4 publicly available on the Internet— 

5 (A) the name and contact information of 

6 the internship coordinator for such program; 

7 and 

8 (B) information regarding application pro9 cedures and deadlines for such internship pro10 gram. 

11 (2) OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT.— 

12 The Office of Personnel Management shall make 

13 publicly available on the Internet links to the 

14 websites where the information described in para15 graph (1) is displayed. 

16 (c) CENTRALIZED DATABASE.—The Office of Per17 sonnel Management shall establish and maintain a cen18 tralized electronic database that contains the names, con19 tact information, and relevant skills of individuals who 

20 have completed or are nearing completion of an internship 

21 program and are currently seeking full-time Federal em22 ployment. 

23 (d) NONCOMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT.— 

24 (1) APPOINTMENT.—Under such regulations as 

25 the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe, 


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1 the head of an agency may make a noncompetitive 

2 appointment leading to conversion to term, career, 

3 or career-conditional employment of an individual if 

4 the individual— 

5 (A) has completed an internship program; 

6 (B) is recommended for such appointment 

7 by the agency in which the individual served as 

8 an intern; and 

9 (C) satisfies such other requirements and 

10 conditions as the Office of Personnel Manage11 ment may prescribe. 

12 (2) TERM APPOINTMENT CONVERSION.—An in13 tern appointed to term employment under paragraph 

14 (1) may subsequently be converted noncompetitively 

15 to a career or career-conditional appointment before 

16 the term appointment expires. 

17 (3) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel 

18 Management shall prescribe such regulations as the 

19 Office considers necessary to carry out this sub20 section. 

21 (e) REPORT.— 

22 (1) IN GENERAL.—The head of each Federal 

23 agency operating an internship program shall annu24 ally submit to the Office of Personnel Management 

25 a report assessing such internship program. 


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1 (2) CONTENTS.—Each report required under 

2 paragraph (1) for a Federal agency shall include, for 

3 the one-year period ending on March 1 of the year 

4 in which the report is submitted— 

5 (A) the number of interns that participated 

6 in an internship program at such agency; 

7 (B) information regarding the demographic 

8 characteristics of interns at such agency, in9 cluding educational background; 

10 (C) the percentage of individuals who 

11 began full-time Federal employment at such 

12 agency who were appointed to such employment 

13 in accordance with subsection (d); 

14 (D) a description of the steps taken by 

15 such agency to increase such percentage, and 

16 any barriers encountered; 

17 (E) a description of activities engaged in 

18 by such agency to recruit new interns, including 

19 locations and methods; 

20 (F) a description of the diversity of work 

21 roles offered within internship programs at such 

22 agency; 

23 (G) a description of the mentorship portion 

24 of such internship programs; and 


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1 (H) a summary of exit interviews con2 ducted by such agency upon completion of an 

3 internship program by an intern. 

4 (3) SUBMISSION.—Each report required under 

5 paragraph (1) shall be submitted to the Office of 

6 Personnel Management between March 1 and March 

7 31 of each year. Not later than April 30 of each 

8 year, the Office of Personnel Management shall sub9 mit to Congress a report summarizing the informa10 tion submitted to the Office of Personnel Manage11 ment in accordance with paragraph (1) for such 

12 year. 

13 (f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

14 (1) INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘intern15 ship program’’ means a program established by a 

16 Federal agency to provide educational employment 

17 experiences to individuals whose service in such 

18 agency will not be used to displace any employee. 

19 (2) INTERN.—The term ‘‘intern’’ means an in20 dividual serving in an internship program. 

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