Title: Diplomatic Personnel Modernization Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Diplomatic Personnel Modernization Act
This bill directs the Department of State to provide Congress with a five-year staffing plan. The plan shall contain certain information, including a set of comprehensive workforce data and recommendations on the number of Foreign Service officers, disaggregated by service cone, that should be posted at each foreign mission.


[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2024 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2024

 To require a five-year staffing plan for the Department of State, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 2019

Mr. Reschenthaler introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require a five-year staffing plan for the Department of State, 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 ``Diplomatic Personnel Modernization 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FIVE-YEAR STAFFING PLAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 18 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a comprehensive five-year 
strategic staffing plan for the Department of State.
    (b) Components.--The staffing plan required under subsection (a) 
shall include the following:
            (1) A dataset displaying comprehensive workforce data for 
        all current and planned employees of the Department of State, 
        disaggregated by the following:
                    (A) Foreign Service officer and Foreign Service 
                specialist rank.
                    (B) Civil service job skill code, grade level, and 
                bureau of assignment.
                    (C) Contracted employees, including the equivalent 
                job skill code and bureau of assignment.
                    (D) Employees hired under schedule C of subpart C 
                of part 213 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, 
                including the equivalent grade and job skill code and 
                bureau of assignment of such employee.
            (2) Recommendations on the number of Foreign Service 
        officers, disaggregated by service cone that should be posted 
        at each foreign mission of the United States.
            (3) A Department of State end-strength number for both 
        civil service and Foreign Service officers.
    (c) Updates.--The dataset required under subsection (b)(1) shall be 
maintained and updated on a regular basis.
    (d) Contracting Authority.--The Secretary of State may contract 
with a private sector entity to assist in completing the staffing plan 
required under subsection (a) if, not later than 15 days before 
entering into such a contract, the Secretary notifies the appropriate 
congressional committees of the intent to enter into such a contract.
    (e) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
congressional committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;
            (2) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
            (3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
        Representatives; and
            (4) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives.
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