A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the eligibility of employees of a land management agency in a time-limited appointment to compete for a permanent appointment at any Federal agency, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-s-2918
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2016-05-10
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Agriculture

Department of the Interior

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Temporary and part-time employment
Latest action: action_date: 2016-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-05-10
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill allows otherwise eligible employees of a land management agency serving under a time-limited appointment in the competitive service to compete for a permanent appointment in the competitive service: (1) at that agency when the agency is accepting applications from individuals within the agency's workforce under merit promotion procedures, or (2) at any agency when the agency is accepting applications from individuals outside its own workforce under its merit promotion procedures.</p> <p>A former employee of a land management agency who served under a time-limited appointment and who otherwise meets applicable requirements shall be deemed a time-limited employee of the agency from which the former employee was most recently separated.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2918 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 10, 2016 Mr. Tester introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the eligibility of employees of a land management agency in a time-limited appointment to compete for a permanent appointment at any Federal agency, and for other purposes.

1. Eligibility of employees in a time-limited appointment to compete for a permanent appointment at any Federal agency Section 9602 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking any land management agency or any other agency (as defined in section 101 of title 31) under the internal merit promotion procedures of the applicable agency and inserting that land management agency when the agency is accepting applications from individuals within the agency’s workforce under merit promotion procedures, or at any agency, including a land management agency, when the agency is accepting applications from individuals outside its own workforce under merit promotion procedures of the applicable agency, ; and (2) in subsection (d) by inserting of the agency from which the former employee was most recently separated after deemed a time-limited employee .