Military Spouse Employment Act

Subjects: Government Operations and Politics, Commuting, Computers and information technology, Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management, Military personnel and dependents

Summary:  <p><b>Military Spouse Employment Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows executive agencies to appoint military spouses to remote work positions. (The current appointment authority does not specifically extend to remote positions.) </p> <p>The bill defines <i>remote work</i> as a particular type of telework that does not require an employee to report to an official agency location on a regular and recurring basis.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 349 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 349

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize the appointment of 
    spouses of members of the Armed Forces who are on active duty, 
   disabled, or deceased to positions in which the spouses will work 
                               remotely.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 9, 2023

  Mr. Lankford (for himself, Ms. Sinema, Mrs. Fischer, and Mr. King) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize the appointment of 
    spouses of members of the Armed Forces who are on active duty, 
   disabled, or deceased to positions in which the spouses will work 
                               remotely.

    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 ``Military Spouse Employment Act''.

SEC. 2. APPOINTMENT OF MILITARY SPOUSES.

    Section 3330d of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (4);
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) The term `remote work' refers to a particular type of 
        telework under which an employee is not expected to report to 
        an officially established agency location on a regular and 
        recurring basis.''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) The term `telework' has the meaning given the term in 
        section 6501.'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) a spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active 
        duty, or a spouse of a disabled or deceased member of the Armed 
        Forces, to a position in which the spouse will engage in remote 
        work.''; and
            (3) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``subsection (a)(3)'' 
        and inserting ``subsection (a)(4)''.
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