Title: Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery Expedited Hiring Authorities Act of 2020
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery Expedited Hiring Authorities Act of 2020
This bill expands the hiring authority of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery, which was created to oversee loan programs and other forms of financial assistance related to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic that are administered by the Department of the Treasury.
Specifically, the bill allows the office to exercise, for up to six months, the expedited hiring authorities that are afforded to temporary organizations. The office may also hire up to 25 retired governmental employees; such retirees may continue to receive their pensions.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3751 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3751

  To amend the CARES Act to provide the Special Inspector General for 
Pandemic Recovery with additional personnel authorities, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 18, 2020

 Mr. Grassley (for himself, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Crapo, Ms. Ernst, and Mr. 
    Booker) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the CARES Act to provide the Special Inspector General for 
Pandemic Recovery with additional personnel authorities, 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 ``Special Inspector General for 
Pandemic Recovery Expedited Hiring Authorities Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR PANDEMIC RECOVERY.

    Section 4018(e) of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Special'' and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
                Special''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Additional authorities.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), 
                        the Special Inspector General may exercise any 
                        authority provided to the head of a temporary 
                        organization under section 3161 of title 5, 
                        United States Code, without regard to whether 
                        the Office of the Special Inspector General for 
                        Pandemic Recovery qualifies as a temporary 
                        organization under subsection (a) of that 
                        section.
                            ``(ii) Limitations.--With respect to the 
                        exercise of authority under subsection (b) of 
                        section 3161 of title 5, United States Code, as 
                        permitted under clause (i) of this 
                        subparagraph--
                                    ``(I) the Special Inspector General 
                                may not make any appointment under that 
                                subsection on or after the later of--
                                            ``(aa) the date that is 180 
                                        days after the date of 
                                        enactment of the Special 
                                        Inspector General for Pandemic 
                                        Recovery Expedited Hiring 
                                        Authorities Act of 2020; or
                                            ``(bb) the date that is 180 
                                        days after the date on which 
                                        the Special Inspector General 
                                        is confirmed by the Senate;
                                    ``(II) paragraph (2) of that 
                                subsection (relating to periods of 
                                appointments) shall not apply; and
                                    ``(III) no period of an appointment 
                                made under that subsection may extend 
                                after the date on which the Office of 
                                the Special Inspector General for 
                                Pandemic Recovery terminates under 
                                subsection (h).''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Reemployment of annuitants.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), if 
                an annuitant receiving an annuity from the Civil 
                Service Retirement and Disability Fund becomes employed 
                in a position in the Office of the Special Inspector 
                General for Pandemic Recovery--
                            ``(i) the annuity of that annuitant shall 
                        continue; and
                            ``(ii) that reemployed annuitant shall not 
                        be considered to be an employee for the 
                        purposes of chapter 83 or 84 of title 5, United 
                        States Code.
                    ``(B) Limitations.--Subparagraph (A) shall apply 
                to--
                            ``(i) not more than 25 employees of the 
                        Office of the Special Inspector General for 
                        Pandemic Recovery at any particular time, as 
                        designated by the Special Inspector General; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) pay periods beginning after the date 
                        of enactment of the Special Inspector General 
                        for Pandemic Recovery Expedited Hiring 
                        Authorities Act of 2020.''.
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