TEMPORARY EXPANSION OF AUTHORITY FOR NONCOMPETITIVE APPOINTMENTS OF MILITARY SPOUSES BY FEDERAL AGENCIES.

SEC. 573. TEMPORARY EXPANSION OF AUTHORITY FOR NONCOMPETITIVE APPOINTMENTS OF MILITARY SPOUSES BY FEDERAL AGENCIES.(a) Expansion to Include All Spouses of Members of the Armed Forces on Active Duty.—Section 3330d of title 5, United States Code, is amended—(1) in subsection (a)—(A) by striking paragraphs (3), (4), and (5); and(B) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (3);(2) by striking subsections (b) and (c) and inserting the following new subsection (b):“(b) Appointment Authority.—The head of an agency may appoint noncompetitively—“(1) a spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty; or“(2) a spouse of a disabled or deceased member of the Armed Forces.”;(3) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (c); and(4) in subsection (c), as so redesignated, by striking “subsection (a)(6)” in paragraph (1) and inserting “subsection (a)(3)”.(b) Clerical Amendment.—The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 33 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 3330d and inserting the following new item: “3330d. Appointment of military spouses.”. (c) Heading Amendment.—The heading of such section is amended to read as follows:“§ 3330d. Appointment of military spouses” .(d) OPM Limitation and Reports.—(1) Relocating spouses.—With respect to the noncompetitive appointment of a relocating spouse of a member of the Armed Forces under subsection (b)(1) of section 3330d of title 5, United States Code, as amended by subsection (a), the Director of the Office of Personnel Management—(A) shall monitor the number of such appointments;(B) shall require the head of each agency with authority to make such appointments under such section to submit an annual report to the Director on such appointments, including information on the number of individuals so appointed, the types of positions filled, and the effectiveness of the authority for such appointments; and(C) not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, shall submit a report to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs of the Senate on the use and effectiveness of such authority.(2) Non-relocating spouses.—With respect to the noncompetitive appointment of a spouse of a member of the Armed Forces other than a relocating spouse described in paragraph (1), the Director of the Office of Personnel Management—(A) shall treat the spouse as a relocating spouse under paragraph (1); and(B) may limit the number of such appointments.(e) Sunset.—Effective on the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act—132 STAT. 1780 (1) the authority provided by this section, and the amendments made by this section, shall expire; and(2) the provisions of section 3330d of title 5, United States Code, amended or repealed by such section are restored or revived as if such section had not been enacted.