Title: Patrick T. Carothers U.S. Marshals Service Hiring Improvement Act of 2017
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Patrick T. Carothers U.S. Marshals Service Hiring Improvement Act of 2017
This bill allows the Director of the U.S. Marshals Service to appoint a qualified candidate to the position of deputy marshal or criminal investigator in accordance with the statutes, rules, or regulations governing excepted service appointments notwithstanding any statutes, rules, or regulations governing appointments in the competitive service. The appointment of a deputy marshal or criminal investigator under this authority shall not be considered to cause the position to be converted from the competitive service to the excepted service.
Service by an incumbent as deputy marshal or criminal investigator may not exceed four years.
The Director may, upon satisfactory completion of three years of substantially continuous service by a qualified incumbent, convert the appointment of the individual, without competition, to a career or career-conditional appointment.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1124 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1124

 To grant the Director of the United States Marshals Service authority 
       to appoint criminal investigators in the excepted service.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 15, 2017

   Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Cornyn, and Ms. Klobuchar) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To grant the Director of the United States Marshals Service authority 
       to appoint criminal investigators in the excepted service.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Patrick T. Carothers U.S. Marshals 
Service Hiring Improvement Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT 
              AUTHORITY.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 37 of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 570. Excepted service appointment authority
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section, the terms `competitive 
service' and `excepted service' have the meanings given those terms in 
sections 2102 and 2103, respectively, of title 5.
    ``(b) Authority.--The Director may appoint a qualified candidate to 
the position of deputy marshal or criminal investigator--
            ``(1) in accordance with the statutes, rules, and 
        regulations governing appointments under Schedule B of the 
        excepted service; and
            ``(2) notwithstanding any statutes, rules, or regulations 
        governing appointments in the competitive service.
    ``(c) Rule of Construction.--The appointment of a candidate to a 
position under the authority under subsection (b) shall not be 
considered to cause the position to be converted from the competitive 
service to the excepted service.
    ``(d) Limit.--Service by an incumbent in a position under the 
authority under subsection (b) may not exceed 4 years.
    ``(e) Noncompetitive Conversion.--The Director may, upon 
satisfactory completion of 3 years of substantially continuous service 
by a qualified incumbent who was appointed to a position under the 
authority under subsection (b), convert the appointment of the 
individual, without competition, to a career or career-conditional 
appointment.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for 
chapter 37 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following:

``570. Excepted service appointment authority.''.
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