‘‘§ 7382. Ineligibility for employment 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (c), any per-
son who has a seriously delinquent tax debt shall be ineli-
gible to be appointed or to continue serving as an employee. 
‘‘(b) DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT.—The head of each 
agency shall take appropriate measures to ensure that each 
person applying for employment with such agency shall be 
required to submit (as part of the application for employ-
ment) certification that such person does not have any seri-
ously delinquent tax debt. 
‘‘(c) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel Manage-
ment, in consultation with the Internal Revenue Service, 
shall, for purposes of carrying out this section with respect 
to the executive branch, promulgate any regulations which 
the Office considers necessary, except that such regulations 
shall provide for the following: 
‘‘(1) All due process rights, afforded by chapter 
75 and any other provision of law, shall apply with 
respect to a determination under this section that an 
applicant is ineligible to be appointed or that an em-
ployee is ineligible to continue serving. 
‘‘(2) Before any such determination is given ef-
fect with respect to an individual, the individual shall 
be afforded 60 days to demonstrate that such individ-
ual’s debt is one described in subparagraph (A), (B), 
(C), or (D) of section 7381(a)(1). 
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‘‘(3) An employee may continue to serve, in a 
situation involving financial hardship, if the contin-
ued service of such employee is in the best interests 
of the United States, as determined on a case-by-case 
basis. 
‘‘(d) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—The Director of the Of-
fice of Personnel Management shall report annually to Con-
gress on the number of exemptions made pursuant to sub-
section (c)(3). 
‘‘§ 7383. Review of public records 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each agency shall provide for 
such reviews of public records as the head of such agency 
considers appropriate to determine if a notice of lien (as 
described in section 7381(1)) has been filed with respect to 
an employee of or an applicant for employment with such 
agency. 
‘‘(b) ADDITIONAL REQUESTS.—If a notice of lien is 
discovered under subsection (a) with respect to an employee 
or applicant for employment, the agency may— 
‘‘(1) request that the employee or applicant exe-
cute and submit a form authorizing the Secretary of 
the Treasury to disclose to the head of the agency in-
formation limited to describing whether the employee 
or applicant has a seriously delinquent tax debt; and 
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‘‘(2) contact the Secretary of the Treasury to re-
quest tax information limited to describing whether 
the employee or applicant has a seriously delinquent 
tax debt. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION FORM.—The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall make available to all agencies a standard 
form for the authorization described in subsection (b)(1). 
‘‘(d) NEGATIVE CONSIDERATION.—The head of an 
agency, in considering an individual’s application for em-
ployment or in making an employee appraisal or evalua-
tion, shall give negative consideration to a refusal or failure 
to comply with a request under subsection (b)(1). 
‘‘§ 7384. Confidentiality 
‘‘Neither the head nor any other employee of an agency 
may— 
‘‘(1) use any information furnished under the 
provisions of this subchapter for any purpose other 
than the administration of this subchapter; 
‘‘(2) make any publication whereby the informa-
tion furnished by or with respect to any particular 
individual under this subchapter can be identified; or 
‘‘(3) permit anyone who is not an employee of 
such agency to examine or otherwise have access to 
any such information.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for chapter 
73 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER VIII—INELIGIBILITY OF PERSONS HAVING 
SERIOUSLY DELINQUENT TAX DEBTS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT 
‘‘7381. Definitions. 
‘‘7382. Ineligibility for employment. 
‘‘7383. Review of public records. 
‘‘7384. Confidentiality.’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 
take effect 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act. 
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