I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3510 
To establish a scholarship program to encourage outstanding graduate stu-
dents in mission-critical fields to pursue a career in the Federal Govern-
ment. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 31, 2009 
Mr. PRICE of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. CASTLE, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, 
Mr. MORAN
of Virginia, Mr. SARBANES, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. 
MCDERMOTT, Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, 
Mr. HODES, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. PLATTS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in 
addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and 
Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a scholarship program to encourage outstanding 
graduate students in mission-critical fields to pursue a 
career in the Federal Government. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Roosevelt Scholars Act of 2009’’. 
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(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents is 
as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Theodore Roosevelt Scholarship Foundation. 
Sec. 5. Roosevelt Scholars. 
Sec. 6. Requirements for Roosevelt Scholars. 
Sec. 7. Special hiring authority. 
Sec. 8. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. 
Sec. 9. Expenditures and audit of Trust Fund. 
Sec. 10. Executive Secretary of the Foundation. 
Sec. 11. Administrative provisions. 
Sec. 12. Additional functions of the Foundation. 
Sec. 13. Exclusion of Roosevelt Scholarship awards from gross income. 
Sec. 14. Authorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) According to the Government Accountability 
Office, about one-third of Federal employees who 
were employed by the Federal Government at the 
end of fiscal year 2007 will become eligible to retire 
by 2012. Proportions of workers eligible to retire are 
projected to be especially high in certain occupa-
tions—some of them mission critical—as well as in 
key leadership positions. The Government will lose 
additional employees to non-retirement attrition. 
(2) The Office of Personnel Management esti-
mates that about 550,000 Federal employees will 
leave the Government in the next 5 years, the major-
ity through retirement, and a recent survey indicates 
that Federal agencies will need to hire nearly 
193,000 new employees to fill mission-critical posi-
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tions (including highly specialized professionals, such 
as scientists, engineers, physicians, mathematicians, 
and economists) through September 2009. 
(3) The ability of the Federal Government to 
perform mission-critical functions depends on a 
strong, well-trained, and highly engaged Federal 
workforce. 
(4) Heavy educational debt and lack of knowl-
edge about Federal job opportunities drive many 
students to seek employment in the private sector, 
making it difficult for the Federal Government to re-
place needed talent in mission-critical positions. 
(5) A new scholarship program to help finance 
graduate-level education and to connect students di-
rectly with mission-critical Federal positions would 
help build a much needed pipeline of talent for the 
Government. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘Foundation’’ means the Theodore 
Roosevelt Scholarship Foundation, as described in 
section 4(a); 
(2) the term ‘‘Board’’ means the Board of 
Trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Scholarship 
Foundation, as described in section 4(b); 
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(3) the term ‘‘Fund’’ means the Theodore Roo-
sevelt Memorial Scholarship Fund, as described in 
section 8; 
(4) the term ‘‘Federal agency’’ means an Exec-
utive agency, as defined by section 105 of title 5, 
United States Code; 
(5) the term ‘‘State’’ includes the District of 
Columbia; 
(6) the term ‘‘graduate student’’ means a stu-
dent in a master’s, law, or doctoral degree program 
at a university accredited by a nationally recognized 
accrediting agency or association; and 
(7) the term ‘‘mission-critical occupational 
area’’ refers to those positions that a Federal agency 
identifies as essential to achieving its strategic goals, 
as determined through the workforce analysis proc-
ess of the Federal agency’s workforce planning sys-
tem. 
SEC. 4. THEODORE ROOSEVELT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDA-
TION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established, as an 
independent establishment in the executive branch of the 
Government, a foundation to be known as the ‘‘Theodore 
Roosevelt Scholarship Foundation’’. 
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(b) BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—The Foundation shall be 
subject to the supervision and direction of a Board of 
Trustees. The Board shall be composed of 9 members, 
plus 1 non-voting ex officio member, as follows: 
(1) Two members shall be appointed by the 
House of Representatives, one appointed by the 
Speaker, and one appointed by the minority leader. 
(2) Two members shall be appointed by the 
Senate, one appointed by the majority leader, and 
one appointed by the minority leader. 
(3) Five members, not more than 3 of whom 
shall be of the same political party, shall be ap-
pointed by the President, with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, from among individuals who— 
(A) have demonstrated leadership or exper-
tise in public service or higher education; or 
(B) represent a Federal agency or a pro-
fessional association related to mission-critical 
occupational areas. 
(4) The Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management (or a designee), who shall serve as a 
non-voting, ex officio member of the Board. 
(c) TERM OF OFFICE.— 
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SEC. 6. REQUIREMENTS FOR ROOSEVELT SCHOLARS. 
(a) SERVICE REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Each student awarded a 
scholarship under this Act shall be required to enter 
into a service agreement with the Foundation which 
provides for such student to complete, in return for 
the scholarship, a specified period of service with the 
Federal Government. Under the agreement, the pe-
riod of service shall be for the number of years equal 
to the total number of academic years for which the 
student received a scholarship under this Act, except 
that the total period of service shall not be less than 
3 years nor more than 5 years. 
(2) FAILURE
TO
FULFILL.—An agreement 
under this section shall provide that an individual 
shall, in the event that such individual fails to meet 
the service requirement under paragraph (1), be re-
quired to repay to the Foundation the amount equal 
to— 
(A) the total amount of scholarship monies 
(tuition and stipends combined) received by the 
individual under such agreement, multiplied by 
(B) a fraction, the numerator of which is 
the amount of service not completed and the de-
nominator of which is the total period of service 
agreed to. 
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