Title: Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 2018
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 2017
This bill amends the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2016 to extend through 2018 the exemption of U.S. Secret Service officers, employees, and agents who perform protective services from the limitation on premium pay otherwise applicable to federal employees.
The Secret Service must report to Congress by January 30, 2018, and January 30, 2019, on the amounts of premium pay above the limitation paid to Secret Service personnel in the previous year.
The Secret Service must conduct and provide to Congress updated threat assessments, including protection costs, on all of the individuals who are protected by the Secret Service. No such assessments will be conducted for the President, the Vice-President, their spouses or children, or former Presidents or Vice-Presidents.
The Secret Service must submit to Congress: (1) a report on its recruitment and retention efforts; (2) a notice whenever it, at the direction of the Department of Homeland Security or the President, extends the protection of an individual beyond the length of time such protection would otherwise be provided; and (3) a list of all of the questions asked in 2016 on any polygraph exam it issued to applicants for employment.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3731 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3731

   To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret 
                    Service, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2017

   Mr. Katko (for himself, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Gowdy, Mr. McCaul, Mr. 
  Thompson of Mississippi, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. 
Ratcliffe, Ms. Norton, and Mr. Donovan) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret 
                    Service, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Secret Service Recruitment and 
Retention Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2018 FOR PROTECTIVE 
              SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--The Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 
2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading for section 2, by striking 
        ``2016'' and inserting ``2016 through 2018''; and
            (2) by striking ``during 2016'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``during 2016 through 2018''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if enacted on December 31, 2016.
    (c) Report on Extensions.--Not later than January 30, 2018, and 
January 30, 2019, the Director of the Secret Service shall submit to 
the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on 
the effects of the amendment made by subsection (a)(2). The report 
shall include, with respect to the previous calendar year--
            (1) the total number of United States Secret Service 
        personnel receiving premium pay above the premium pay 
        limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of title 5, United 
        States Code;
            (2) the total amount of premium pay for that calendar year 
        paid to United States Secret Service personnel above the 
        premium pay limitation in such subsection;
            (3) the mean and median amount of premium pay paid to 
        United States Secret Service personnel above the premium pay 
        limitation in such subsection;
            (4) the greatest amount paid to United States Secret 
        Service personnel above the premium pay limitation in such 
        subsection and the number of employees who received that 
        amount;
            (5) notwithstanding the amendments made by subsection (a), 
        the total number of United States Secret Service personnel who 
        were not fully compensated for service because of the premium 
        pay earnings limitation in section 118 of the Treasury and 
        General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547 
        note);
            (6) the total amount of premium pay United States Secret 
        Service personnel would have been paid but for the premium pay 
        earnings limitation in such section; and
            (7) a list of United States Secret Service personnel who, 
        within the calendar year, received premium pay above the 
        premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of 
        title 5, United States Code, and separated from the agency, 
        including the type of separation in each case.

SEC. 3. RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION EFFORTS.

    (a) Threat Assessments.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Secret Service 
        shall conduct updated threat assessments on all individuals 
        protected by the United States Secret Service and provide such 
        assessments to the appropriate congressional committees. Such 
        threat assessments shall not be conducted for--
                    (A) the President, the Vice President, or any 
                spouses or children of the President or Vice President; 
                or
                    (B) former Presidents or Vice Presidents.
            (2) Requirement of threat assessments.--The threat 
        assessments required under paragraph (1) shall include a 
        description of the costs, including total annual costs, of the 
        protection of each individual.
    (b) Recruitment and Retention.--Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Secret Service 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 
the recruitment and retention efforts of the Secret Service. Such 
report shall include--
            (1) data on the overall attrition rate for agency 
        personnel;
            (2) information on the causes of employee attrition and 
        issues of low morale;
            (3) a strategy for overhauling the agency's recruitment and 
        hiring process; and
            (4) a strategy for improving retention of agency personnel.
    (c) Extension of Protection.--Not later than 30 days after the 
Department of Homeland Security or the United States Secret Service is 
directed by the President or the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
extend the protection of an individual beyond the length of time that 
would otherwise be provided to such individual, and such protection is 
provided by the United States Secret Service, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, acting through the Director of the Secret Service, shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a notice of such 
extension, including an updated threat assessment on such individual.
    (d) Polygraph Test Questions.--Not later than 10 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Secret Service shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a list of all 
questions asked in calendar year 2016 on any polygraph exam the United 
States Secret Service issued to an applicant for employment in the 
United States Secret Service.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
congressional committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on 
        Oversight and Government Reform of the House of 
        Representatives; and
            (2) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
        Affairs of the Senate.
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