S.Amdt. 405

SA 405. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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, insert the following:

SEC. ___. MILITARY SPOUSE EMPLOYMENT.

(a) In General.--Section 3330d of title 5, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
(B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
``(3) The term `remote work' refers to a particular type of
telework under which an

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employee is not expected to report to an officially
established agency location on a regular and recurring
basis.''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(5) The term `telework' has the meaning given the term in
section 6501.'';
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or'' at the end;
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) a spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active
duty, or a spouse of a disabled or deceased member of the
Armed Forces, to a position in which the spouse will engage
in remote work.''; and
(3) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``subsection (a)(3)''
and inserting ``subsection (a)(4)''.
(b) GAO Study and Report.--
(1) Definitions.--In this subsection--
(A) the term ``agency'' means an agency described in
paragraph (1) or (2) of section 901(b) of title 31, United
States Code;
(B) the term ``employee'' means an employee of an agency;
(C) the term ``remote work'' means a particular type of
telework under which an employee is not expected to report to
an officially established agency location on a regular and
recurring basis; and
(D) the term ``telework'' means a work flexibility
arrangement under which an employee performs the duties and
responsibilities of such employee's position, and other
authorized activities, from an approved worksite other than
the location from which the employee would otherwise work.
(2) Requirement.--Not later than 18 months after the date
of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall conduct a study and publish a report
regarding the use of remote work by agencies, which shall
include a discussion of what is known regarding--
(A) the number of employees who are engaging in remote
work;
(B) the role of remote work in agency recruitment and
retention efforts;
(C) the geographic location of employees who engage in
remote work;
(D) the effect that remote work has had on how often
employees are reporting to officially established agency
locations to perform the duties and responsibilities of the
positions of those employees and other authorized activities;
and
(E) how the use of remote work has affected Federal office
space utilization and spending.
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