Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture
§ 2279j. Conversion authority
Statutory text
The Secretary may, notwithstanding subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, governing appointments in the competitive or excepted service, noncompetitively convert to an appointment in the competitive service, in an agency or office within the Department of Agriculture, a recent graduate or student who is a United States citizen and has been awarded and successfully completed a scholarship program granted to the individual by the Department through the 1890 National Scholars Program or the 1994 Tribal Scholars Program carried out by the Department, provided the individual meets the requirements for such conversion and meets Office of Personnel Management qualification standards, as determined by the Secretary. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall be construed as requiring the Secretary to convert an individual under the authority under such sentence.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
Pub. L. 115–334 title XII § 12519 · 132 Stat. 4490
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2279j
(Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12519, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 5001.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 115–334, title XII, § 12519, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 5001.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 12519. CONVERSION AUTHORITY. The Secretary may, notwithstanding subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive or excepted service, noncompetitively convert to an appointment in the competitive service, in an agency or office within the Department of Agriculture, a recent graduate or student who is a United States citizen and has been awarded and successfully completed a scholarship program granted to the individual by the Department through the 1890 National Scholars Program or the 1994 Tribal Scholars Program carried out by the Department, provided the individual meets the requirements for such conversion and meets Office of Personnel Management qualification standards, as determined by the Secretary. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall be construed as requiring the Secretary to convert an individual under the authority under such sentence.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Definition of “Secretary”
“Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture, see section 2 of Pub. L. 115–334, set out as a note under section 9001 of this title.