S.Amdt. 487

SA 487. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title XI, insert the following:

SEC. ___. CLARIFICATION OF LIMITATION ON EXPEDITED HIRING
AUTHORITY FOR POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS.

Section 3116(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:
``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the
total number of students

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that the head of an agency may appoint under this section
during a fiscal year may not exceed the number equal to 15
percent of the number of students that the agency head
appointed during the previous fiscal year to a position at
the GS-11 level, or an equivalent level, or below.''.
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