I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3615 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the hiring of veterans 
by the Federal Government. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 21, 2013 
Mr. REICHERT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
hiring of veterans by 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Careers for Heroes 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. EMPLOYMENT OF VETERANS WITH THE FEDERAL 
GOVERNMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4214 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(4)(A) The requirement under this paragraph is in 
addition to the appointment of qualified covered veterans 
under the authority under paragraph (1) by the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. 
‘‘(B) The head of each agency (excluding the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Defense), 
in consultation with the Director of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management, shall develop and implement a plan 
for exercising the authority specified in subparagraph (C) 
during the five-year period beginning on the date of the 
enactment of this paragraph. 
‘‘(C) The authority specified in this subparagraph is 
the authority as follows: 
‘‘(i) The authority under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(ii) The authority available to the agency con-
cerned under the Veterans Employment Opportuni-
ties Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–339) and the 
amendments made by that Act. 
‘‘(D) The Director of the Office of Personnel Man-
agement shall ensure that under the plans developed 
under subparagraph (B), agencies shall appoint to existing 
vacancies not fewer than 15,000 qualified covered veterans 
during the five-year period beginning on the date of the 
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enactment of this paragraph. For purposes of complying 
with this subparagraph, an appointment pursuant to the 
authority referred to in subparagraph (C)(ii) shall not 
count toward the number required by this subparagraph 
unless the appointment is to a vacancy in a full-time, per-
manent position.’’; 
(2) in subsection (d), in the third sentence, by 
inserting ‘‘(including, during the five-year period be-
ginning on the date of the enactment of paragraph 
(4) of subsection (b), the development and imple-
mentation by each agency of the plan required under 
such paragraph, which shall include information re-
garding the grade or pay level of appointments by 
the agency under the plan and whether the appoint-
ments are, or are converted to, career or career-con-
ditional appointments)’’ after ‘‘subsection (b) of this 
section’’; and 
(3) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in the matter before subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘to the Congress’’ and in-
serting ‘‘to the appropriate committees of 
Congress’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘(including, during the five-year period be-
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ginning on the date of the enactment of 
paragraph (4) of subsection (b), the devel-
opment and implementation by the agency 
of the plan required under such paragraph, 
which shall include information regarding 
the grade or pay level of appointments by 
the agency under the plan and whether the 
appointments are, or are converted to, per-
manent appointments)’’ before the period; 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3) In this subsection, the term ‘appropriate com-
mittees of Congress’ means— 
‘‘(A) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-
mental Affairs of the Senate; and 
‘‘(B) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form of the House of Representatives.’’. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management shall submit to the appropriate com-
mittees of Congress (as defined under section 4214(e)(3) 
of title 38, United States Code, as amended by subsection 
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(a)) a report containing a plan to carry out the amend-
ments made by subsection (a). 
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