1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Senior Executive Service Accountability Act . 2. Actions against senior executives for performance or conduct (a) Repeal of pay retention for career appointees removed from the Senior Executive Service Section 3594(c)(1)(B) of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: (B) (i) any career appointee placed under subsection (a) or (b)(2) of this section shall be entitled to receive basic pay at the highest of— (I) the rate of basic pay in effect for the position in which placed; (II) the rate of basic pay in effect at the time of the placement for the position the career appointee held in the civil service immediately before being appointed to the Senior Executive Service; or (III) the rate of basic pay in effect for the career appointee immediately before being placed under subsection (a) or (b) of this section; and (ii) any career appointee placed under subsection (b)(1) of this section shall be entitled to receive basic pay at the rate of basic pay in effect for the position in which placed; and . (b) Appraisal system requirements Section 4314(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end before the semicolon the following: or, as warranted, from the civil service ; and (2) in paragraph (4), by adding at the end before the semicolon the following: or, as warranted, from the civil service . (c) Suspension for 14 days or less Paragraph (1) of section 7501 of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: (1) employee means— (A) an individual in the competitive service who is not serving a probationary period or, except as provided in section 1599e of title 10, trial period under an initial appointment or who has completed 1 year of current continuous employment in the same or similar positions under other than a temporary appointment limited to 1 year or less; or (B) a career appointee in the Senior Executive Service who— (i) has completed the probationary period prescribed under section 3393(d)