§3330f Government Policy and Supporting Position Data

Summary

Create and maintain a public website that lists every high-level policy job in the federal government, who holds each job (or if it is vacant), and key facts about those jobs. Agency means the listed federal offices and White House components. Appointee means a person serving in one of those policy jobs, including acting officials. Covered website means the website OPM’s Director creates. Director means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. Policy and supporting position means the types of senior or confidential jobs that appear in the “Plum Book,” such as Senior Executive, Senior Foreign Service, Schedule C, Executive Schedule, or jobs at GS–14 pay or higher that are excepted from competitive hiring. The site must be set up no later than 1 year after the PLUM Act of 2022 is enacted. It must show every policy job (including vacancies), the current and past appointees for the President in office, limits and totals for certain job categories, and for each job include agency and component, job title, occupant name (if any), location, pay system and level, term or appointment length, expiration date if time-limited, a unique ID, vacancy status, and the name of any acting or duties-performing official. The data must show when each agency last updated it, be free online in a searchable, sortable, downloadable, machine-readable format, and meet open data rules. The Director must issue agency instructions within 1 year, require agencies to upload updated data within 90 days after the site is created and at least once each year, run a help desk with no more than 1 full-time employee, confirm accuracy within 90 days of site launch and publish that certification, allow public feedback, identify noncompliant agencies, and archive prior administrations’ data after the transitional inauguration day for free public access in the same formats.