by the President, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, to occupy such office.’’. 
(c) APPLICATION TO INDIVIDUALS REMOVED FROM 
OFFICE.—Paragraph (2) of section 3345(c) of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after ‘‘the 
expiration of a term of office’’ the following: ‘‘or removal 
(voluntarily or involuntarily) from office’’. 
(d) TESTIMONY OF ACTING OFFICIALS BEFORE CON-
GRESS.—Section 3345 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f)(1) Any individual serving as an acting officer due 
to a vacancy to which this section applies, or any indi-
vidual who has served in such capacity and continues to 
perform the same or similar duties beyond the time limits 
described in section 3346, shall appear, at least once dur-
ing any 60-day period that the individual is so serving, 
before the appropriate committees of jurisdiction of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate. 
‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) may be waived upon mutual 
agreement of the chairs and ranking members of such 
committees.’’. 
(e) TIME LIMITATION FOR PRINCIPAL OFFICES.— 
Section 3346 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘or as pro-
vided in subsection (d)’’ after ‘‘sickness’’; and 
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(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) With respect to the vacancy of the position of 
head of any agency listed in subsection (b) of section 901 
of title 31, or any other position that is within the Presi-
dent’s cabinet and to which this section applies, sub-
sections (a) through (c) of this section and sections 
3348(c), 3349(b), and 3349a(b) shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘120’ for ‘210’ in each instance.’’. 
(f) EXCLUSIVITY.—Section 3347 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), any statutory 
provision covered under paragraph (1) of such subsection 
that contains a non-discretionary order or directive to des-
ignate an officer or employee to perform the functions and 
duties of a specified office temporarily in an acting capac-
ity shall be the exclusive means for temporarily author-
izing an acting official to perform the functions and duties 
of such office.’’. 
(g) REPORTING OF VACANCIES.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 3349 of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended— 
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(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘immediately upon’’ in 
each instance and inserting ‘‘not later than 
7 days after’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (3), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(iii) in paragraph (4), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(iv) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(5) notification of the end of the term of serv-
ice of any person serving in an acting capacity and 
the name of any subsequent person serving in an 
acting capacity and the date the service of such sub-
sequent person began not later than 7 days after 
such date.’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘imme-
diately’’ and inserting ‘‘not later than 14 days 
after the date of such determination’’. 
(2) 
TECHNICAL
CORRECTIONS.—Paragraphs 
(1) and (2) of subsection (b) of such section 3349 
are amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 
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‘‘(2) the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
of the House of Representatives;’’. 
(h) VACANCIES DURING PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL 
TRANSITIONS.—Subsection (b) of section 3349a of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) Notwithstanding section 3346 (except as pro-
vided in paragraph (2) of this subsection) or 3348(c), with 
respect to any vacancy that exists on a transitional inau-
guration day, or that arises during the 60-day period be-
ginning on such day, the person serving as an acting offi-
cer as described under section 3345 may serve in the of-
fice— 
‘‘(1) for no longer than 300 days beginning on 
such day; or 
‘‘(2) subject to subsection 3346(b), once a first 
or second nomination for the office is submitted to 
the Senate, from the date of such nomination for the 
period that the nomination is pending in the Sen-
ate.’’. 
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