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H.R. 1385 115th Congress House

Civil Service Incentives Integrity Act of 2017

Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to limit recruitment and retention bonuses for employees who spend certain durations of time on official time, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 7, 2017 Introduced by: Virginia Foxx Republican · North Carolina See on congress.gov
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 Latest action March 7, 2017

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Civil Service Incentives Integrity Act of 2017

This bill requires the retraction and repayment of recruitment and relocation bonuses paid to federal employees who have spent at least 80% of the time they would otherwise be in a duty status on official time. Additionally, a retention bonus may not be paid to any such employee who, for a period of 6 consecutive months of service associated with the bonus, has spent at least 80% of the time they would otherwise be in a duty status on official time. Official time is time spent by federal employees performing representational work for a bargaining unit in lieu of their regularly assigned work.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1385: Civil Service Incentives Integrity Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1385/
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"H.R. 1385: Civil Service Incentives Integrity Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1385/.
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H.R. 1385, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1385/.
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