To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide authority to the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide a cash award to Administration employees with foreign language skills, and for other purposes.

Subjects: Government Operations and Politics, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Foreign language and bilingual programs, Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:  <p>This bill provides authority for the Drug Enforcement Administration to pay a cash award to an employee who maintains proficiency in a mission-critical language or who uses a foreign language in the performance of official duties.</p>

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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 665 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 665

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide authority to the 
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide a cash 
award to Administration employees with foreign language skills, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2023

    Mrs. Gonzalez-Colon (for herself and Mr. Peters) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                             Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide authority to the 
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide a cash 
award to Administration employees with foreign language skills, and for 
                            other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. CASH AWARD FOR DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION EMPLOYEES 
              WITH FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5761 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 5761. Foreign language proficiency pay awards for the Federal 
              Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement 
              Administration
    ``The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the 
Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration may, under 
regulations prescribed by the Director or the Administrator (as the 
case may be), pay a cash award of up to 10 percent of basic pay to any 
Bureau or Administration employee (as the case may be) who maintains 
proficiency in a language or languages critical to the mission or who 
uses one or more foreign languages in the performance of official 
duties.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for subchapter IV of 
chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking the 
item relating to section 5761 and inserting the following:

``5761. Foreign language proficiency pay awards for the Federal Bureau 
                            of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement 
                            Administration.''.
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