31 U.S.C. § 731 — General
submitted 44 years ago by Pub. L. 97-258 to r/title-31-MONEY-AND-FINANCE · 802 words · no verdicts yet
The Comptroller General manages Government Accountability Office personnel, pay, leave, consultants, exchanges, discrimination rules, details, and related expenses. Subsection (d) is repealed.
(a) The Comptroller General may appoint, pay, assign, and remove the officers, except the Deputy Comptroller General, and employees needed for the Government Accountability Office. (b) The Comptroller General may establish a merit-pay system for appropriate employees consistent with section 5401 of title 5 as it existed October 31, 1993. (c) The General Counsel’s annual basic pay equals Executive Schedule level IV. (d) Repealed. (e) The Comptroller General may hire experts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5 at no more than the daily level-IV rate. No more than 20 may be hired at once for terms of up to three years, renewable. (f) Regulations must allow appropriate relocation reimbursement under title 5’s subchapter II of chapter 57 when the Comptroller General finds the transfer sufficiently benefits the Office. (g) Regulations may allow key officers and employees with under three years’ service to accrue leave under section 6303(a)(2) when appropriate for recruitment or retention; they must define key employees and decision factors. (h) Regulations may establish an executive exchange with private organizations. They must address assignment duration and termination, reimbursement, and participant status, benefits, and duties; cap Office employees assigned outside at 15 and private employees assigned to the Office at 30; bar private employees from their employer’s trade secrets and commercially valuable nonpublic information; require a cost-effective, best-interest determination before an Office assignment; and bar assignments beginning after five years from enactment. (i) A private employee assigned to the Office is treated as an Office employee for the listed ethics, criminal, tort, tax, and procurement provisions. (j) Salary-and-expense appropriations may pay meals and other reasonable recruitment expenses. (k) At the Comptroller General’s reasonable discretion, Office work may be performed by reimbursable, partly reimbursable, or nonreimbursable personnel details from other federal offices.
The Comptroller General may appoint, pay, assign, and remove officers (except the Deputy Comptroller General) and employees the Comptroller General decides are necessary to carry out the duties and powers of the Government Accountability Office.
The Comptroller General may establish for appropriate officers and employees a merit pay system consistent with section 5401 of title 5, as in effect on October 31, 1993.
The annual rate of basic pay of the General Counsel of the Government Accountability Office is equal to the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule.
Repealed. Pub. L. 110–323, § 9(a)(1), Sept. 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 3548.]
The Comptroller General may procure the services of experts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5 at rates not in excess of the daily rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule, except that the services of not more than 20 experts and consultants may be procured for terms of not more than 3 years, but which shall be renewable.
The Comptroller General shall prescribe regulations under which officers and employees of the Office may, in appropriate circumstances, be reimbursed for any relocation expenses under subchapter II of chapter 57 of title 5 for which they would not otherwise be eligible, but only if the Comptroller General determines that the transfer giving rise to such relocation is of sufficient benefit or value to the Office to justify such reimbursement.
The Comptroller General shall prescribe regulations under which key officers and employees of the Office who have less than 3 years of service may accrue leave in accordance with section 6303(a)(2) of title 5, in those circumstances in which the Comptroller General has determined such increased annual leave is appropriate for the recruitment or retention of such officers and employees. Such regulations shall define key officers and employees and set forth the factors in determining which officers and employees should be allowed to accrue leave in accordance with this subsection.
The Comptroller General may by regulation establish an executive exchange program under which officers and employees of the Office may be assigned to private sector organizations, and employees of private sector organizations may be assigned to the Office, to further the institutional interests of the Office or Congress, including for the purpose of providing training to officers and employees of the Office. Regulations to carry out any such program—
shall include provisions (consistent with sections 3702 through 3704 of title 5) as to matters concerning—
the duration and termination of assignments;
reimbursements; and
status, entitlements, benefits, and obligations of program participants;
shall limit—
the number of officers and employees who are assigned to private sector organizations at any one time to not more than 15; and
the number of employees from private sector organizations who are assigned to the Office at any one time to not more than 30;
shall require that an employee of a private sector organization assigned to the Office may not have access to any trade secrets or to any other nonpublic information which is of commercial value to the private sector organization from which such employee is assigned;
shall require that, before approving the assignment of an officer or employee to a private sector organization, the Comptroller General shall determine that the assignment is an effective use of the Office’s funds, taking into account the best interests of the Office and the costs and benefits of alternative methods of achieving the same results and objectives; and
shall not allow any assignment under this subsection to commence after the end of the 5-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this subsection.
An employee of a private sector organization assigned to the Office under the executive exchange program shall be considered to be an employee of the Office for purposes of—
chapter 73 of title 5;
sections 201, 203, 205, 207, 208, 209, 603, 606, 607, 643, 654, 1905, and 1913 of title 18;
sections 1343, 1344, and 1349(b) of this title;
chapter 171 of title 28 (commonly referred to as the “Federal Tort Claims Act”) and any other Federal tort liability statute;
chapter 131 of title 5;
section 1043 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and
chapter 21 of title 41.
Funds appropriated to the Government Accountability Office for salaries and expenses are available for meals and other related reasonable expenses incurred in connection with recruitment.
The activities of the Government Accountability Office may, in the reasonable discretion of the Comptroller General, be carried out by receiving details of personnel from other offices of the Federal Government on a reimbursable, partially-reimbursable, or nonreimbursable basis.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 896; Pub. L. 98–326, § 1(a), June 22, 1984, 98 Stat. 269; Pub. L. 98–615, title II, § 204(b), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3216; Pub. L. 103–89, § 3(b)(4), Sept. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 983; Pub. L. 106–303, § 5, Oct. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 1069; Pub. L. 108–271, §§ 5–7, 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 813, 814; Pub. L. 110–323, § 9(a), Sept. 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 3548; Pub. L. 111–350, § 5(h)(2), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3849; Pub. L. 114–113, div. I, title I, § 1301(a), Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2671; Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(c)(35), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4358.)
- 1982Enacted · Pub. L. 97-258 · 96 Stat. 896
- 1984Amended · Pub. L. 98-326 · 98 Stat. 269
- 1984Amended · Pub. L. 98-615 · 98 Stat. 3216
- 1993Amended · Pub. L. 103-89 · 107 Stat. 983
- 2000Amended · Pub. L. 106-303 · 114 Stat. 1069
- 2004Amended · Pub. L. 108-271 · 118 Stat. 813, 814
- 2008Amended · Pub. L. 110-323 · 122 Stat. 3548
- 2011Amended · Pub. L. 111-350 · 124 Stat. 3849
- 2015Amended · Pub. L. 114-113 · 129 Stat. 2671
- 2022Amended · Pub. L. 117-286 · 136 Stat. 4358
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 97-258 on 1982-09-13.
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