S.Amdt. 6211

SA 6211. Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself and Mr. Sasse) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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:

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(d) Post-award Employment Obligations.--Each scholarship recipient, as a condition of receiving a scholarship under the Program, shall enter into an agreement under which the recipient agrees to work for a period equal to the length of the scholarship, following receipt of the student's degree or specialized program certification, in the cybersecurity mission of--

(1) an executive agency (as defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code); or

(2) Congress, including any agency, entity, office, or commission established in the legislative branch.

(e) Hiring Authority.--

(1) Appointment in excepted service.--Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, a Federal agency shall appoint in the excepted service an individual who has completed the eligible degree program for which a scholarship was awarded under the Program.

(2) Noncompetitive conversion.--Except as provided in paragraph (4), upon fulfillment of the service term, an employee appointed under paragraph (1) may be converted noncompetitively to term, career-conditional, or career appointment.

(3) Timing of conversion.--An agency may noncompetitively convert a term employee appointed under paragraph (2) to a career-conditional or career appointment before the term appointment expires.

(4) Authority to decline conversion.--An agency may decline to make the noncompetitive conversion or appointment under paragraph (2) for cause.