Defense Acquisition Workforce Human Capital Management Improvement Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2460
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2016-01-21
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Department of Defense

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2016-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-01-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Defense Acquisition Workforce Human Capital Management Improvement Act of 2016</strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) strategic workforce plan to include information on the use of certain special hiring authorities by the military departments and the defense agencies, and a description of the additional authorities required to enhance DOD's civilian employee workforce. </p> <p>DOD shall transmit to Congress each report submitted to DOD by the military departments and the heads of the defense agencies relating to the strategic workforce plan.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2460 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 21, 2016 Mr. Rounds introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to require reports to Congress on matters of the military departments and Defense Agencies in support of the biennial strategic workforce plans of the Department of Defense.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defense Acquisition Workforce Human Capital Management Improvement Act of 2016 . 2. Reports to Congress on matters of military departments and Defense Agencies in support of biennial strategic workforce plans (a) Element in strategic workforce plan on use of special hiring authorities Subsection (b)(1) of section 115b of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking and at the end; (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (E) the use, if any, of special hiring authorities made by the Secretaries of the military departments and the heads of the Defense agencies to address the matters described in this paragraph, and a description of the additional authorities required to support the enhancement of the civilian employee workforce of the Department. . (b) Transmittal to Congress of reports of military departments and defense agencies to Secretary of Defense Subsection (g) of such section is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: The Secretary of Defense shall transmit to Congress each report submitted to the Secretary pursuant to this subsection. . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, and shall apply with respect to plans submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Defense under subsection (a) of section 115b of title 10, United States Code, and reports submitted to the Secretary of Defense by the Secretaries of the military departments and the heads of the Defense Agencies pursuant to subsection (g) of such section after the date.