S.Amdt. 3224

SA 3224. Ms. AYOTTE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3060 proposed by Mr. Wyden to the bill H.R. 3474, to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to exempt
employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans
Administration from being taken into account for purposes of the
employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. BONUSES.

(a) Adverse Findings and Employees Under Investigation.--
Chapter 45 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following:

``Subchapter IV--Limitations on Bonus Authority

``Sec. 4531. Certain forms of misconduct

``(a) Definitions.--In this section--
``(1) the term `adverse finding' relating to an employee
means a determination that the conduct of the employee--
``(A) violated a policy of the agency for which the
employee may be removed or suspended; or
``(B) violated a law for which the employee may be
imprisoned of more than 1 year;
``(2) the term `agency' has the meaning given that term
under section 551; and
``(3) the term `bonus' means any bonus or cash award,
including--
``(A) an award under this chapter;
``(B) an award under section 5384; and
``(C) a retention bonus under section 5754.
``(b) Adverse Findings.--
``(1) In general.--The head of an agency shall not award a
bonus to an employee of the agency until 5 years after the
end of the fiscal year in which the Inspector General or
another senior ethics official of the agency or the
Comptroller General of the United States makes an adverse
finding relating to the employee.
``(2) Previously awarded bonuses.--If the Inspector General
or another senior ethics official of the agency or the
Comptroller General of the United States makes an adverse
finding relating to an employee, the head of the agency
employing the employee, after notice and an opportunity for a
hearing, shall issue an order directing the employee to repay
the amount of any bonus awarded to the employee during the
year during which the adverse finding is made.''.
(b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of
sections for chapter 45 of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:

``subchapter iv--limitations on bonus authority

``4531. Certain forms of misconduct.''.

____________________