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      "title": "Civil Service Reform: H.R. 1836, Homeland Security Act, and Current Law",
      "summary": "On May 8, 2003, the House Government Reform Committee ordered a bill to be reported that\nwould\nsignificantly change the system for managing civilian personnel within the Department of Defense\n(DOD) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). If passed,\n H.R. 1836  would also change the compensation system for Senior Executive Service\nmembers throughout the government and make other general systemic changes with regard to human\nresources management.\n  In April 2003, DOD General Counsel William Haynes sent Congress a significant reform\nproposal packaged as the \"Defense Transformation for the 21st Century Act.\" Among the changes\nproposed would be establishing a chapter within Title 5 of the U.S. Code that would govern\npersonnel management provisions unique to DOD.  H.R. 1836  incorporates most of\nthese provisions. Some of the provisions have been included in the House or Senate versions of\nFY2004 Defense authorizations ( H.R. 1588 ,  S. 1050 ). In particular,\n H.R. 1588 , as passed by the House, incorporates Title I, most of Title II, and Title IV\nof  H.R. 1836 , as reported.\n  Representative Tom Davis, Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform,\nintroduced  H.R. 1836 , known as the Civil Service and National Security Personnel\nImprovement Act. By making changes in selected federal personnel management statutory\nprovisions, the bill is intended to improve the flexibility and competitiveness of federal human\nresources management. Defense authorization measures  S. 297 , as introduced,\n S. 1050 , as reported, and  H.R. 1588 , as passed, echo many of the\ngovernment-wide provisions of Title II of  H.R. 1836 . Provisions similar to those\naffecting NASA and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are also in  H.R. 1085 ,  S. 610 , and  H.R. 658 . Overall, these proposals would grant agency\nheads more flexibility with respect to hiring, disciplining, and compensating civilian personnel.\nSome would argue that the most significant of these changes would relate to compensation. In each\ncase, it is presumed that some form of pay banding would result. \n  The Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( P.L. 107-296 ,  H.R. 5005 ) provides that the\nSecretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management will work\ntogether to develop a system of personnel management unique to the Department of Homeland\nSecurity (DHS). It also provides for some government-wide changes in workforce management. \nThe system is under development.\n  The purpose of this report is to present, in tabular format, the alignment of  H.R. 1836  with current statutory provisions and with those sections of the Homeland Security Act of 2002\nrelated to personnel management and unique to the Department of Homeland Security. Since\n H.R. 1588  incorporates a significant portion of  H.R. 1836 , where\nappropriate, attention is called to the differences. If there are no notes, the provisions of\n H.R. 1836  were passed by the House in  H.R. 1588 .",
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      "date": "2003-05-19",
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