5 U.S.C. § 3393
Career appointments
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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- 5 U.S.C. § 3393, Career appointments, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/426763
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Full text
Each agency shall establish a recruitment program, in accordance with guidelines which shall be issued by the Office of Personnel Management, which provides for recruitment of career appointees from—
Each agency shall establish one or more executive resources boards, as appropriate, the members of which shall be appointed by the head of the agency from among employees of the agency or commissioned officers of the uniformed services serving on active duty in such agency. The boards shall, in accordance with merit staffing requirements established by the Office, conduct the merit staffing process for career appointees, including—
The Office shall, in consultation with the various qualification review boards, prescribe criteria for establishing executive qualifications for appointment of career appointees. The criteria shall provide for—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Civil Service Reform Act of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Civil Service Retirement Spouse Equity Act of 1984House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: 97–0
- Ethics Reform Act of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- To make technical changes in the Ethics Reform Act of 1989.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Homeland Security Act of 2002
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016House: 370–58Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022House: 363–70Senate: no recorded tally