Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to hire qualified candidates directly into competitive service jobs at federal prison facilities, skipping certain standard federal hiring rules, until 96 percent of those jobs are filled.

Official title: BOP Direct-Hire Authority Act

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote

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House

Introduced 13-MAY-2025

Referred 13-MAY-2025

Approved by committee 16-SEP-2026

Key points

Lets the Bureau of Prisons Director appoint qualified candidates to competitive service positions at Bureau of Prisons facilities without regard to subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, except sections 3303 and 3328.
Ends this hiring authority on the date 96 percent of the competitive service positions at those facilities, counted as of enactment, are occupied.
Short title: the BOP Direct-Hire Authority Act.

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Policy area

Crime and Law Enforcement

Sponsor Glenn Grothman (R-WI) Cosponsors · 9

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9 Republicans

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