Federal Employee Bonus Disclosure Act

Federal Employee Bonus Disclosure Act

This bill requires federal agencies to report to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) information about each performance bonus awarded to an employee. The OPM must publish such information.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5290 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5290

To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the disclosure, public 
documentation, and reporting of Federal employee bonuses, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2018

 Mr. Sanford introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the disclosure, public 
documentation, and reporting of Federal employee bonuses, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Employee Bonus Disclosure 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE, DOCUMENTATION, AND REPORTING OF PERFORMANCE AWARDS.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 45 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 4510. Disclosure, documentation, and reporting of performance 
              awards
    ``(a)(1) Not later than 30 days after the end of fiscal year 2019 
and each fiscal year thereafter, the head of each agency shall submit a 
report to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management describing 
each performance bonus awarded to an employee of the agency during the 
most recently ended fiscal year, the name of the employee receiving the 
bonus, and the amount of the bonus.
    ``(2) With respect to any performance bonus included in a report 
submitted under paragraph (1) that was equal to or greater than 
$10,000, the agency head shall include in the report a detailed 
description of the reasons why the bonus was awarded and the metrics 
used to determine that such bonus was appropriate.
    ``(b) Not later than January 1 of each fiscal year, the Director of 
the Office of Personnel Management shall--
            ``(1) publish, on the Office's public Internet website, a 
        list containing the name of any employee receiving a 
        performance bonus in the most recently ended fiscal year, the 
        agency that awarded the bonus, and the amount of the bonus; and
            ``(2) submit a report to Congress containing a list of each 
        performance bonus awarded in the most recently ended fiscal 
        year that was equal to or greater than $10,000, including the 
        reasons why the bonus was awarded and the metrics used to 
        determine that the bonus was appropriate, as provided under 
        subsection (a)(2).
    ``(c) For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) the term `agency' has the meaning given such term in 
        section 4501 and includes--
                    ``(A) the United States Postal Service and the 
                Postal Regulatory Commission; and
                    ``(B) notwithstanding the matter following 
                subparagraph (G) of such section, the Tennessee Valley 
                Authority and the Central Bank for Cooperatives; and
            ``(2) the term `performance bonus' includes any 
        performance-based bonus, including a bonus under this 
        subchapter or section 5384.''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to any performance bonus (as that term is described in section 4510 of 
title 5, United States Code, as added by such subsection) made on or 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for subchapter I of 
chapter 45 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after the item relating to section 4509 the following:

``4510. Disclosure, documentation, and reporting of performance 
                            awards.''.
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