(b) ONLINE INFORMATION.— 
(1) AGENCIES.—The head of each Federal 
agency operating an internship program shall make 
publicly available on the Internet— 
(A) the name and contact information of 
the internship coordinator for such program; 
and 
(B) information regarding application pro-
cedures and deadlines for such internship pro-
gram. 
(2) OFFICE
OF
PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT.— 
The Office of Personnel Management shall make 
publicly available on the Internet links to the 
websites where the information described in para-
graph (1) is displayed. 
(c) CENTRALIZED DATABASE.—The Office of Per-
sonnel Management shall establish and maintain a cen-
tralized electronic database that contains the names, con-
tact information, and relevant skills of individuals who 
have completed or are nearing completion of an internship 
program and are currently seeking full-time Federal em-
ployment. 
(d) NONCOMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT.— 
(1) APPOINTMENT.—Under such regulations as 
the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe, 
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the head of an agency may make a noncompetitive 
appointment leading to conversion to term, career, 
or career-conditional employment of an individual if 
the individual— 
(A) has completed an internship program; 
(B) is recommended for such appointment 
by the agency in which the individual served as 
an intern; and 
(C) satisfies such other requirements and 
conditions as the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment may prescribe. 
(2) TERM APPOINTMENT CONVERSION.—An in-
tern appointed to term employment under paragraph 
(1) may subsequently be converted noncompetitively 
to a career or career-conditional appointment before 
the term appointment expires. 
(3) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel 
Management shall prescribe such regulations as the 
Office considers necessary to carry out this sub-
section. 
(e) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of each Federal 
agency operating an internship program shall annu-
ally submit to the Office of Personnel Management 
a report assessing such internship program. 
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(2) CONTENTS.—Each report required under 
paragraph (1) for a Federal agency shall include, for 
the one-year period ending on March 1 of the year 
in which the report is submitted— 
(A) the number of interns that participated 
in an internship program at such agency; 
(B) information regarding the demographic 
characteristics of interns at such agency, in-
cluding educational background; 
(C) the percentage of individuals who 
began full-time Federal employment at such 
agency who were appointed to such employment 
in accordance with subsection (d); 
(D) a description of the steps taken by 
such agency to increase such percentage, and 
any barriers encountered; 
(E) a description of activities engaged in 
by such agency to recruit new interns, including 
locations and methods; 
(F) a description of the diversity of work 
roles offered within internship programs at such 
agency; 
(G) a description of the mentorship portion 
of such internship programs; and 
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(H) a summary of exit interviews con-
ducted by such agency upon completion of an 
internship program by an intern. 
(3) SUBMISSION.—Each report required under 
paragraph (1) shall be submitted to the Office of 
Personnel Management between March 1 and March 
31 of each year. Not later than April 30 of each 
year, the Office of Personnel Management shall sub-
mit to Congress a report summarizing the informa-
tion submitted to the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment in accordance with paragraph (1) for such 
year. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘intern-
ship program’’ means a program established by a 
Federal agency to provide educational employment 
experiences to individuals whose service in such 
agency will not be used to displace any employee. 
(2) INTERN.—The term ‘‘intern’’ means an in-
dividual serving in an internship program. 
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