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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 200 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To impose restrictions on Federal agencies with respect to appointments, |
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| 6 | 6 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY3, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. T |
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| 10 | 10 | | ENNEYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To impose restrictions on Federal agencies with respect to |
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| 14 | 14 | | appointments, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Freeze Act’’. 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SEC. 2. FREEZE ON FEDERAL HIRING AND SALARIES. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | (a) D |
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| 21 | 21 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) A |
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| 23 | 23 | | GENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | meaning given the term in section 551 of title 5, 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | United States Code. 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (2) BASELINE NUMBER .—The term ‘‘baseline 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | number’’ means, with respect to an agency, the 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | number of employees employed by the agency (in-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | cluding individuals occupying full-time equivalent po-4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | sitions in the agency), as of the date of enactment 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | of this Act. 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (3) E |
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| 36 | 36 | | MPLOYEE.—The term ‘‘employee’’ means 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | an employee of an agency. 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (b) G |
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| 39 | 39 | | ENERALPROHIBITIONS.—Notwithstanding any 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | other provision of law or regulation, during the 1-year pe-10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | riod beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, the 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | following shall apply: 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (1)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the head of an agency may not increase the number 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | of employees employed by the agency beyond the 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | baseline number. 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (B) During the 1-year period beginning on the 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | date of enactment of this Act, the head of an agency 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | may appoint an individual to a position within the 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | agency, even if appointing that individual would in-20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | crease the number of employees employed by the 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | agency beyond the baseline number, if the agency 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | head determines that making that appointment 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | serves the interest of law enforcement, public safety, 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | or the national security of the United States. 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (2) The annual rate of basic pay of an em-1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ployee, as in effect on the date of enactment of this 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | Act, may not be increased. 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (c) R |
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| 63 | 63 | | EDUCTION INFORCE.—The head of each agency 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | shall take such measures, without regard to any other pro-5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | vision of law or regulation, to ensure that— 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (1) as of the date that is 2 years after the date 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | of enactment of this Act, the number of employees 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | employed by the agency is 2 percent less than the 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | baseline number; and 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (2) as of the date that is 3 years after the date 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | of enactment of this Act, the number of employees 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | employed by the agency is 5 percent less than the 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | baseline number. 14 |
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