To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide authority to the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide a cash award to Administration employees with foreign language skills, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-1296
Sponsor: full_name: Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2021-02-24
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Foreign language and bilingual programs

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2021-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill provides authority for the Drug Enforcement Administration to pay a cash award to an employee who maintains proficiency in a mission-critical language or who uses a foreign language in the performance of official duties.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1296 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 24, 2021 Miss González-Colón (for herself and Mr. Peters ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide authority to the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to provide a cash award to Administration employees with foreign language skills, and for other purposes.

1. Cash award for Drug Enforcement Administration employees with foreign language skills (a) In general Section 5761 of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 5761. Foreign language proficiency pay awards for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration may, under regulations prescribed by the Director or the Administrator (as the case may be), pay a cash award of up to 10 percent of basic pay to any Bureau or Administration employee (as the case may be) who maintains proficiency in a language or languages critical to the mission or who uses one or more foreign languages in the performance of official duties. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of sections for subchapter IV of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 5761 and inserting the following: 5761. Foreign language proficiency pay awards for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration. .