5 U.S.C. § 4505
Awards to former employees
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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- 5 U.S.C. § 4505, Awards to former employees, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/426862
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An agency may pay or grant an award under this subchapter notwithstanding the death or separation from the service of the employee concerned, if the suggestion, invention, superior accomplishment, other personal effort, or special act or service in the public interest for which the award is proposed was made or performed while the employee was in the employ of the Government.
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. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally