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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1280 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the head of each Executive agency to relocate 30 percent of |
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| 6 | 6 | | the employees assigned to the headquarters of the Executive agency |
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| 7 | 7 | | to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, and for |
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| 8 | 8 | | other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | FEBRUARY13, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. B |
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| 12 | 12 | | EANof Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 13 | 13 | | Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To require the head of each Executive agency to relocate |
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| 16 | 16 | | 30 percent of the employees assigned to the headquarters |
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| 17 | 17 | | of the Executive agency to duty stations outside the |
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| 18 | 18 | | Washington metropolitan area, and for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Decentralizing and Re-4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | organizing Agency Infrastructure Nation-wide To Harness 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Efficient Services, Workforce Administration, and Man-6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | agement Practices Act’’ or the ‘‘DRAIN THE SWAMP 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Act’’. 8 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | In this Act: 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) B |
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| 33 | 33 | | UDGET JUSTIFICATION MATERIALS .—The 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | term ‘‘budget justification materials’’ has the mean-4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ing given that term in section 3(b)(2)(A) of the Fed-5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | eral Funding Accountability and Transparency Act 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (2) E |
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| 39 | 39 | | MPLOYEE.—The term ‘‘employee’’— 8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (A) has the meaning given that term in 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | section 2105 of title 5, United States Code; and 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (B) does not include an individual who— 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (i) in the event of a lapse in appro-12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | priations, would be an excepted employee 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | and exempt from the limitation on vol-14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | untary services under section 1342 of title 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 31, United States Code, because the duties 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | of the position in which the individual is 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | serving are performing mission-essential 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | functions of the Executive agency employ-19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ing the individual that are necessary for 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | purposes of defending the United States 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | against imminent threats; and 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (ii) is serving in a position within— 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (I) the Executive Office of the 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | President; or 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (II) a component, the mission of 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | which is related to national security, 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | of— 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (aa) the Department of De-4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | fense, including— 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (AA) the Defense Intel-6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ligence Agency; 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (BB) the National Se-8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | curity Agency; and 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (CC) the National 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Geospatial-Intelligence 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Agency; 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (bb) the Department of En-13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ergy; 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (cc) the Department of 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | Homeland Security; 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (dd) the Office of the Direc-17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | tor of National Intelligence; or 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (ee) the Central Intelligence 19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | Agency. 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (3) E |
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| 81 | 81 | | XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Executive 21 |
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| 82 | 82 | | agency’’ means an agency, as defined in section 551 22 |
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| 83 | 83 | | of title 5, United States Code, that is in the execu-23 |
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| 84 | 84 | | tive branch of the Government. 24 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (4) HEADQUARTERS EMPLOYEE OF AN EXECU -1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | TIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘headquarters employee of 2 |
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| 90 | 90 | | an Executive agency’’ means— 3 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (A) an employee of an Executive agency 4 |
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| 92 | 92 | | whose permanent duty station is at the head-5 |
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| 93 | 93 | | quarters of the Executive agency; or 6 |
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| 94 | 94 | | (B) an employee of an Executive agency— 7 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (i) who teleworks on a full-time basis; 8 |
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| 96 | 96 | | and 9 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (ii) whose rate of pay is calculated 10 |
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| 98 | 98 | | based on the Washington metropolitan 11 |
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| 99 | 99 | | area rate of pay. 12 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (5) H |
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| 101 | 101 | | EADQUARTERS OF THE EXECUTIVE AGEN -13 |
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| 102 | 102 | | CY.—The term ‘‘headquarters of the Executive agen-14 |
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| 103 | 103 | | cy’’, with respect to an Executive agency, means the 15 |
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| 104 | 104 | | building serving as the principal managerial and ad-16 |
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| 105 | 105 | | ministrative center of the Executive agency. 17 |
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| 106 | 106 | | (6) P |
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| 107 | 107 | | AY LOCALITY.—The term ‘‘pay locality’’ 18 |
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| 108 | 108 | | has the meaning given that term in section 5302 of 19 |
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| 109 | 109 | | title 5, United States Code. 20 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (7) R |
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| 111 | 111 | | URAL.—The term ‘‘rural’’ means any area 21 |
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| 112 | 112 | | that is not designated as an urban area, based on 22 |
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| 113 | 113 | | the most recent data available from the Bureau of 23 |
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| 114 | 114 | | the Census. 24 |
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| 118 | 118 | | (8) TELEWORK.—The term ‘‘telework’’ has the 1 |
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| 119 | 119 | | meaning given that term in section 6501 of title 5, 2 |
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| 120 | 120 | | United States Code. 3 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (9) T |
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| 122 | 122 | | ELEWORK ON A FULL -TIME BASIS.—The 4 |
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| 123 | 123 | | term ‘‘telework on a full-time basis’’ means that an 5 |
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| 124 | 124 | | employee is authorized to telework for 100 percent 6 |
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| 125 | 125 | | of the work days of the employee per pay period. 7 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (10) W |
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| 127 | 127 | | ASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA .—The 8 |
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| 128 | 128 | | term ‘‘Washington metropolitan area’’ means the ge-9 |
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| 129 | 129 | | ographic area to which the Washington metropolitan 10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | area rate of pay applies. 11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | (11) W |
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| 132 | 132 | | ASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA RATE 12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | OF PAY.—The term ‘‘Washington metropolitan area 13 |
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| 134 | 134 | | rate of pay’’ means the rate of pay in effect for the 14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | pay locality designated as ‘‘Washington-Baltimore- 15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | Arlington, DC–MD–VA–WV–PA’’. 16 |
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| 137 | 137 | | SEC. 3. RELOCATION OF EMPLOYEES. 17 |
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| 138 | 138 | | (a) I |
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| 139 | 139 | | NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-18 |
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| 140 | 140 | | sions of law, and not later than 1 year after the date of 19 |
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| 141 | 141 | | enactment of this Act, the head of each Executive agency 20 |
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| 142 | 142 | | shall— 21 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (1) change the permanent duty station of not 22 |
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| 144 | 144 | | less than 30 percent of the headquarters employees 23 |
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| 145 | 145 | | of the Executive agency, as of the date of enactment 24 |
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| 146 | 146 | | of this Act, to be at an office of the Executive agen-25 |
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| 150 | 150 | | cy at a location outside the Washington metropolitan 1 |
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| 151 | 151 | | area, which shall be at locations throughout the re-2 |
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| 152 | 152 | | gions of the Executive agency; and 3 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (2) for each employee of the Executive agency 4 |
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| 154 | 154 | | whose permanent duty station is changed under 5 |
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| 155 | 155 | | paragraph (1), ensure that— 6 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (A) the rate of pay of the employee is cal-7 |
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| 157 | 157 | | culated based on the pay locality for the perma-8 |
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| 158 | 158 | | nent duty station of the employee; and 9 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (B) the employee is not authorized to 10 |
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| 160 | 160 | | telework on a full-time basis. 11 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (b) D |
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| 162 | 162 | | ETERMINATION OF NEWDUTYSTATIONS.— 12 |
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| 163 | 163 | | The head of each Executive agency shall, in determining 13 |
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| 164 | 164 | | the permanent duty stations of headquarters employees of 14 |
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| 165 | 165 | | the Executive agency under subsection (a)— 15 |
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| 166 | 166 | | (1) promote geographic diversity, including con-16 |
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| 167 | 167 | | sideration of rural markets; and 17 |
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| 168 | 168 | | (2) ensure adequate staffing throughout the re-18 |
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| 169 | 169 | | gions of the Executive agency, to promote in-person 19 |
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| 170 | 170 | | customer service. 20 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (c) D |
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| 172 | 172 | | ETERMINATION OF EMPLOYEESELIGIBLE FOR 21 |
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| 173 | 173 | | ACHANGE INDUTYSTATION.— 22 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (1) I |
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| 175 | 175 | | N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-23 |
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| 176 | 176 | | graph (2), the head of each Executive agency shall 24 |
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| 177 | 177 | | include each headquarters employee of the Executive 25 |
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| 181 | 181 | | agency as eligible for a change in permanent duty 1 |
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| 182 | 182 | | station under subsection (a). 2 |
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| 183 | 183 | | (2) E |
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| 184 | 184 | | XCEPTION.—A headquarters employee of 3 |
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| 185 | 185 | | an Executive agency who is a qualified individual 4 |
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| 186 | 186 | | who receives an accommodation to telework on a 5 |
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| 187 | 187 | | full-time basis as a reasonable accommodation under 6 |
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| 188 | 188 | | title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 7 |
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| 189 | 189 | | (42 U.S.C. 12111 et seq.)— 8 |
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| 190 | 190 | | (A) shall not be determined to be eligible 9 |
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| 191 | 191 | | for a change in permanent duty station under 10 |
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| 192 | 192 | | subsection (a); and 11 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (B) shall be counted as a headquarters em-12 |
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| 194 | 194 | | ployee of the Executive agency for purposes of 13 |
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| 195 | 195 | | complying with subsection (a)(1). 14 |
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| 196 | 196 | | (3) N |
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| 197 | 197 | | OTICE OF DETERMINATION OF ELIGI -15 |
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| 198 | 198 | | BILITY.—Not later than the day before the date on 16 |
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| 199 | 199 | | which the head of an Executive agency submits the 17 |
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| 200 | 200 | | report required under subsection (d), the head of the 18 |
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| 201 | 201 | | Executive agency shall notify each headquarters em-19 |
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| 202 | 202 | | ployee of the Executive agency who the head of the 20 |
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| 203 | 203 | | Executive agency determines is eligible for a change 21 |
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| 204 | 204 | | in permanent duty station under subsection (a) of 22 |
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| 205 | 205 | | that determination. 23 |
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| 206 | 206 | | (d) R |
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| 207 | 207 | | EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 24 |
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| 208 | 208 | | of enactment of this Act, the head of each Executive agen-25 |
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| 212 | 212 | | cy shall submit to each committee of the Senate or the 1 |
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| 213 | 213 | | House of Representatives with jurisdiction of 1 or more 2 |
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| 214 | 214 | | programs, projects, or activities of the Executive agency 3 |
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| 215 | 215 | | a report that provides— 4 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (1) the number of headquarters employees of 5 |
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| 217 | 217 | | the Executive agency, as of the date of enactment of 6 |
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| 218 | 218 | | this Act; 7 |
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| 219 | 219 | | (2) the number of headquarters employees of 8 |
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| 220 | 220 | | the Executive agency identified as eligible for a 9 |
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| 221 | 221 | | change in permanent duty station, in accordance 10 |
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| 222 | 222 | | with subsection (c); 11 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (3) the number of headquarters employees of 12 |
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| 224 | 224 | | the Executive agency whose permanent duty station 13 |
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| 225 | 225 | | will be changed to be at an office of the Executive 14 |
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| 226 | 226 | | agency at a location outside the Washington metro-15 |
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| 227 | 227 | | politan area under subsection (a); 16 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (4) the number of headquarters employees of 17 |
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| 229 | 229 | | the Executive agency subject to an exception under 18 |
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| 230 | 230 | | subsection (c)(2); and 19 |
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| 231 | 231 | | (5) the plan of the head of the Executive agen-20 |
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| 232 | 232 | | cy to implement subsection (a). 21 |
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| 233 | 233 | | (e) I |
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| 234 | 234 | | MPLEMENTATION.— 22 |
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| 235 | 235 | | (1) I |
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| 236 | 236 | | N GENERAL.—Not earlier than 60 days, 23 |
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| 237 | 237 | | and not later than 90 days, after the date on which 24 |
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| 238 | 238 | | the head of an Executive agency submits the report 25 |
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| 242 | 242 | | required under subsection (d), the head of the Exec-1 |
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| 243 | 243 | | utive agency shall notify each headquarters employee 2 |
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| 244 | 244 | | of the Executive agency whose permanent duty sta-3 |
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| 245 | 245 | | tion will be changed to be at an office of the Execu-4 |
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| 246 | 246 | | tive agency located outside the Washington metro-5 |
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| 247 | 247 | | politan area under subsection (a)— 6 |
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| 248 | 248 | | (A) that, effective 90 days after the date 7 |
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| 249 | 249 | | of the notification— 8 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (i) the permanent duty station of the 9 |
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| 251 | 251 | | employee shall be changed; 10 |
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| 252 | 252 | | (ii) the rate of pay of the employee 11 |
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| 253 | 253 | | shall be calculated based on the pay local-12 |
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| 254 | 254 | | ity for such permanent duty station; and 13 |
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| 255 | 255 | | (iii) the employee shall not be author-14 |
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| 256 | 256 | | ized to telework on a full-time basis; and 15 |
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| 257 | 257 | | (B) of the location of such permanent duty 16 |
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| 258 | 258 | | station. 17 |
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| 259 | 259 | | (2) F |
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| 260 | 260 | | ULL-TIME TELEWORKERS REMAINING IN 18 |
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| 261 | 261 | | THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA .— 19 |
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| 262 | 262 | | (A) I |
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| 263 | 263 | | N GENERAL.—For any employee de-20 |
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| 264 | 264 | | scribed in subparagraph (B), effective on the 21 |
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| 265 | 265 | | date that is 180 days after the date on which 22 |
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| 266 | 266 | | the head of the Executive agency employing the 23 |
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| 267 | 267 | | employee submits the report required under 24 |
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| 271 | 271 | | subsection (d), the employee shall not be au-1 |
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| 272 | 272 | | thorized to telework on a full-time basis. 2 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (B) E |
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| 274 | 274 | | MPLOYEES COVERED .—An employee 3 |
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| 275 | 275 | | described in this subparagraph is a head-4 |
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| 276 | 276 | | quarters employee of an Executive agency— 5 |
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| 277 | 277 | | (i) who teleworks on a full-time basis, 6 |
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| 278 | 278 | | as of the date of enactment of this Act; 7 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (ii) who is not subject to an exception 8 |
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| 280 | 280 | | under subsection (c)(2); and 9 |
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| 281 | 281 | | (iii) whose permanent duty station is 10 |
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| 282 | 282 | | not changed to be an office of the Execu-11 |
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| 283 | 283 | | tive agency at a location outside the Wash-12 |
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| 284 | 284 | | ington metropolitan area under subsection 13 |
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| 285 | 285 | | (a). 14 |
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| 286 | 286 | | SEC. 4. REDUCTION IN HEADQUARTERS OFFICE SPACE. 15 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (a) I |
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| 288 | 288 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 16 |
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| 289 | 289 | | date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office 17 |
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| 290 | 290 | | of Management and Budget shall— 18 |
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| 291 | 291 | | (1) issue a memorandum directing that the 19 |
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| 292 | 292 | | amount of real property serving as the headquarters 20 |
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| 293 | 293 | | of an Executive agency that is owned or leased by 21 |
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| 294 | 294 | | the Federal Government be reduced by not less than 22 |
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| 295 | 295 | | 30 percent; and 23 |
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| 299 | 299 | | (2) in identifying property to be sold or for 1 |
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| 300 | 300 | | which a lease is to be terminated or not renewed, 2 |
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| 301 | 301 | | prioritize— 3 |
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| 302 | 302 | | (A) the disposal of buildings; and 4 |
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| 303 | 303 | | (B) co-locating the headquarters of Execu-5 |
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| 304 | 304 | | tive agencies in as few locations as practicable. 6 |
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| 305 | 305 | | (b) I |
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| 306 | 306 | | MPLEMENTATION.—If the head of an Executive 7 |
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| 307 | 307 | | agency is directed to reduce office space under the memo-8 |
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| 308 | 308 | | randum issued under subsection (a), the head of the Exec-9 |
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| 309 | 309 | | utive agency shall— 10 |
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| 310 | 310 | | (1) begin reducing office space in accordance 11 |
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| 311 | 311 | | with the memorandum not later than 180 days after 12 |
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| 312 | 312 | | the date of enactment of this Act; and 13 |
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| 313 | 313 | | (2) complete the reduction of office space in ac-14 |
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| 314 | 314 | | cordance with the memorandum not later than 2 15 |
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| 315 | 315 | | years after the date of enactment of this Act. 16 |
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| 316 | 316 | | SEC. 5. INFORMATION INCLUDED IN BUDGET JUSTIFICA-17 |
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| 317 | 317 | | TION MATERIALS PROVIDED TO CONGRESS. 18 |
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| 318 | 318 | | The head of each Executive agency shall include in 19 |
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| 319 | 319 | | the first budget justification materials of the Executive 20 |
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| 320 | 320 | | agency submitted after the date of enactment of this Act, 21 |
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| 321 | 321 | | and the budget justification materials of the Executive 22 |
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| 322 | 322 | | agency for each fiscal year thereafter— 23 |
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| 323 | 323 | | (1) the number of headquarters employees of 24 |
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| 324 | 324 | | the Executive agency; 25 |
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| 328 | 328 | | (2) the number of employees of the Executive 1 |
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| 329 | 329 | | agency assigned to a permanent duty station in— 2 |
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| 330 | 330 | | (A) a field office of the Executive agency; 3 |
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| 331 | 331 | | (B) a district office of the Executive agen-4 |
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| 332 | 332 | | cy; or 5 |
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| 333 | 333 | | (C) a regional office of the Executive agen-6 |
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| 334 | 334 | | cy; 7 |
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| 335 | 335 | | (3) the number of employees of the Executive 8 |
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| 336 | 336 | | agency who telework on a full-time basis; and 9 |
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| 337 | 337 | | (4) the number of employees of the Executive 10 |
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| 338 | 338 | | agency who are a qualified individual who receives 11 |
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| 339 | 339 | | an accommodation to telework on a full-time basis 12 |
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| 340 | 340 | | as a reasonable accommodation under title I of the 13 |
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| 341 | 341 | | Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 14 |
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| 342 | 342 | | 12111 et seq.). 15 |
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| 343 | 343 | | SEC. 6. NO RELOCATION INCENTIVES. 16 |
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| 344 | 344 | | If, pursuant to this Act, the official worksite (as de-17 |
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| 345 | 345 | | fined in section 531.605 of title 5, Code of Federal Regu-18 |
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| 346 | 346 | | lations) of an employee changes from the residence of the 19 |
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| 347 | 347 | | employee to the headquarters of the Executive agency of 20 |
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| 348 | 348 | | the employee, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 21 |
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| 349 | 349 | | no such employee shall be paid any relocation incentive. 22 |
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| 350 | 350 | | SEC. 7. SEVERABILITY. 23 |
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| 351 | 351 | | If any provision of this Act or the application of such 24 |
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| 352 | 352 | | provision to any person or circumstance is held to be un-25 |
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| 357 | 357 | | tion of the provision to any other person or circumstance 2 |
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| 358 | 358 | | shall not be affected thereby. 3 |
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| 359 | 359 | | SEC. 8. SUPERSESSION. 4 |
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| 360 | 360 | | This Act shall supersede any other provision of law 5 |
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| 361 | 361 | | and any provision of a collective bargaining agreement or 6 |
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| 362 | 362 | | master labor agreement. 7 |
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| 363 | 363 | | SEC. 9. NO PRIVATE CAUSE OF ACTION. 8 |
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| 364 | 364 | | Nothing in this Act shall be construed to establish 9 |
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| 365 | 365 | | a private cause of action, equitable or otherwise, to chal-10 |
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| 366 | 366 | | lenge any selection, change, or decision made, or action 11 |
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| 367 | 367 | | taken, under this Act. 12 |
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