Sec. 1113. Expansion of noncompetitive appointment eligibility to spouses of Department of Defense civilians
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Section 3330d of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in the section heading, by inserting after and Department of Defense civilian ; military in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: The term spouse of an employee of the Department of Defense means an individual who is married to an employee of the Department of Defense who is transferred in the interest of the Government from one official station within the Department to another within the Department (that is outside of normal commuting distance) for permanent duty. ; and in subsection (b)— in paragraph (1), by striking or at the end; in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and by adding at the end the following: a spouse of an employee of the Department of Defense. .
The table of sections for subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 3330d and inserting the following: 3330d. Appointment of military and Department of Defense civilian spouses. . With respect to the noncompetitive appointment of a relocating spouse of an employee of the Department of Defense under paragraph
(3)of section 3330d(b) of title 5, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall— monitor the number of those appointments; require the head of each agency with the authority to make those appointments under that provision to submit to the Director an annual report on those appointments, including information on the number of individuals so appointed, the types of positions filled, and the effectiveness of the authority for those appointments; and not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives a report on the use and effectiveness of the authority described in subparagraph (B). With respect to the noncompetitive appointment of a spouse of an employee of the Department of Defense other than a relocating spouse described in paragraph (1), the Director of the Office of Personnel Management— shall treat the spouse as a relocating spouse under paragraph (1); and may limit the number of those appointments. Effective on December 31, 2028— the authority provided by this section, and the amendments made by this section, shall expire; and the provisions of section 3330d of title 5, United States Code, amended or repealed by this section are restored or revived as if this section had not been enacted.