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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2876
To promote and support management reorganization of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 5, 1993
Mr. BROWN of California introduced the following bill; which was referred
jointly to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and Post
Office and Civil Service
A BILL
To promote and support management reorganization of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Aeronautics
and Space Administration Management Reorganization
Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. SEPARATION PAY.
(a) For the purpose of this section—
(1) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; and
(2) the term ‘‘employee’’ means an employee of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
serving under an appointment without time limita-
tion, who has been currently employed for a continu-
ous period of at least 12 months, except that such
term does not include—
(A) a reemployed annuitant under sub-
chapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title
5, United States Code, or another retirement
system for employees of the Government; or
(B) an employee having a disability on the
basis of which such employee is or would be eli-
gible for disability retirement under any of the
retirement systems referred to in subparagraph
(A).
(b) In order to avoid or minimize the need for invol-
untary separations due to a reduction in force, installation
closure, reorganization, transfer of function, or other simi-
lar action affecting the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the Administrator shall establish a pro-
gram under which separation pay may be offered to en-
courage eligible employees to separate from service volun-
tarily (whether by retirement or resignation).
(c) Under the program, separation pay may be
offered only—
(1) with the prior written consent of the Ad-
ministrator; and
(2) to employees within such occupational
groups or geographic locations, or subject to such
other similar limitations or conditions, as the Ad-
ministrator may require.
(d) Such separation pay—
(1) shall be paid in a lump sum; and
(2) shall be equal to the lesser of—
(A) an amount equal to the amount the
employee would be entitled to receive under sec-
tion 5595(c) of title 5, United States Code, if
the employee were entitled to payment under
such section; or
(B) $25,000;
(3) shall not be a basis for payment, and shall
not be included in the computation, of any other
type of Government benefit; and
(4) shall not be taken into account for purposes
of determining the amount of any severance pay to
which an individual may be entitled under section
5595 of title 5, United States Code, based on any
other separation.
(e)(1) No amount shall be payable under this section
based on any separation occurring after September 30,
1995.
(2) No amount shall be payable under this section
for any member in the Senior Executive Service based on
any separation occurring after September 30, 1993.
(f) An employee who receives separation pay under
such program may not be reemployed by the National Aer-
onautics and Space Administration for the 12-month pe-
riod beginning on the effective date of the employee’s sepa-
ration, unless the employee agrees to repay to the United
States an amount equal to such separation pay multiplied
by the proportion of such 12-month period during which
the employee will be so reemployed.
(g) The Administrator shall prescribe such regula-
tions as may be necessary to carry out this section.
SEC. 3. AMOUNTS TO REMAIN AVAILABLE.
Amounts appropriated after August 1, 1993, for car-
rying out this Act shall be from sums otherwise authorized
to be appropriated for research and program management
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
and may remain available until expended.
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