Title: Civil Service Incentives Integrity Act of 2017
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Civil Service Incentives Integrity Act of 2017
This bill requires the retraction and repayment of recruitment and relocation bonuses paid to federal employees who have spent at least 80% of the time they would otherwise be in a duty status on official time. Additionally, a retention bonus may not be paid to any such employee who, for a period of 6 consecutive months of service associated with the bonus, has spent at least 80% of the time they would otherwise be in a duty status on official time. Official time is time spent by federal employees performing representational work for a bargaining unit in lieu of their regularly assigned work.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1385 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1385

    To amend title 5, United States Code, to limit recruitment and 
retention bonuses for employees who spend certain durations of time on 
                 official time, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2017

   Ms. Foxx introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 5, United States Code, to limit recruitment and 
retention bonuses for employees who spend certain durations of time on 
                 official time, 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 ``Civil Service Incentives Integrity 
Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON CERTAIN BONUSES.

    (a) Recruitment and Relocation Bonuses.--
            (1) In general.--Section 5753 of title 5, United States 
        Code, is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (g) by inserting ``or the bonus 
                is subject to retraction under subsection (h)'' before 
                the period at the end; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) A bonus awarded under this section shall be retracted and 
subject to repayment under subsection (g) in any case in which an 
employee has spent at least 80 percent of the time such employee would 
otherwise be in a duty status on official time granted under section 
7131 during the period ending on the date that is 6 months after the 
appointment or relocation of such employee, as applicable.''.
            (2) Applicability.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
        shall apply with respect to any applicable bonus awarded on or 
        after October 1, 2017.
    (b) Retention Bonuses.--Section 5754(d) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(5)(A) A retention bonus may not be paid to an employee who, for 
a period of 6 consecutive months of service associated with the bonus, 
has spent at least 80 percent of the time such employee would otherwise 
be in a duty status on official time granted under section 7131.
    ``(B) Subparagraph (A) shall apply with respect to any 6 
consecutive months of service beginning on or after October 1, 2017.''.
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