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2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 242
5	5	To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, and for other
6	6	purposes.
7	7	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8	8	JANUARY9, 2025
9	9	Mr. S
10	10	ESSIONSintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the
11	11	Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
12	12	A BILL
13	13	To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers,
14	14	and for other purposes.
15	15	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
16	16	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
17	17	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
18	18	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Manager Attitudes and 4
19	19	Notions According to Government Employee Responses 5
20	20	Act’’ or the ‘‘MANAGER Act’’. 6
21	21	SEC. 2. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE MANAGER SURVEYS. 7
22	22	(a) I
23	23	NGENERAL.—Section 1128 of the National De-8
24	24	fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 9
25	25	108–136; 5 U.S.C. 7101 note) is amended— 10
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28	28	•HR 242 IH
29	29	(1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and 1
30	30	(d) as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively; 2
31	31	(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-3
32	32	lowing: 4
33	33	‘‘(b) M
34	34	ANAGERS.— 5
35	35	‘‘(1) I
36	36	N GENERAL.—Each agency shall conduct 6
37	37	an annual survey of its managers that shall, in addi-7
38	38	tion to the topics covered by the survey under sub-8
39	39	section (a), include the following questions: 9
40	40	‘‘(A) I have confidence my agency leader-10
41	41	ship will support me if I try to discipline an em-11
42	42	ployee. 12
43	43	‘‘(B) I have confidence in the current sys-13
44	44	tem to discipline employees. 14
45	45	‘‘(C) I feel supported as a manager. 15
46	46	‘‘(D) I have adequate training regarding 16
47	47	how to discipline employees. 17
48	48	‘‘(E) I have adequate time to observe new 18
49	49	employees and attempt to correct deficiencies 19
50	50	before their probationary period expires. 20
51	51	‘‘(F) I have opted not to attempt to dis-21
52	52	cipline an employee over the past year because 22
53	53	I have no confidence in the system. 23
54	54	‘‘(G) My input is sought regarding labor 24
55	55	negotiations that will impact my work unit. 25
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59	59	‘‘(H) I would recommend that a colleague 1
60	60	in my agency become a manager if given the 2
61	61	option to do so. 3
62	62	‘‘(I) The inability to discipline poor per-4
63	63	formers or otherwise bad employees hurts the 5
64	64	morale of my work unit. 6
65	65	‘‘(J) Good employees in my work unit have 7
66	66	left because of the inability to discipline prob-8
67	67	lematic employees. 9
68	68	‘‘(2) R
69	69	ESPONSE OPTIONS.—Each survey under 10
70	70	paragraph (1) shall include an option to provide nar-11
71	71	rative responses to each question required under 12
72	72	such paragraph, in addition to any other quan-13
73	73	titative or qualitative response options.’’; 14
74	74	(3) in subsections (c) and (d), as redesignated 15
75	75	by paragraph (1) of this subsection, by striking 16
76	76	‘‘subsection (a)’’ each place it appears and inserting 17
77	77	‘‘subsection (a) or (b)’’; and 18
78	78	(4) by amending subsection (e), as so redesig-19
79	79	nated, to read as follows: 20
80	80	‘‘(e) D
81	81	EFINITIONS.—In this section— 21
82	82	‘‘(1) the term ‘agency’ means an Executive 22
83	83	agency (as that term is defined in section 105 of 23
84	84	title 5, United States Code); and 24
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88	88	‘‘(2) the term ‘Federal manager’ means a Fed-1
89	89	eral employee who— 2
90	90	‘‘(A) has obtained the grade of GS–13 of 3
91	91	the General Schedule or higher; and 4
92	92	‘‘(B) is a supervisor or management offi-5
93	93	cial (as those terms are defined in section 7103 6
94	94	of such title 5).’’. 7
95	95	(b) R
96	96	EQUIREMENTTOUPDATESURVEYS.—Not later 8
97	97	than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 9
98	98	the Office of Personnel Management shall update the reg-10
99	99	ulations required under subsection (c) of such section 11
100	100	1128, as so redesignated, in order to implement the 12
101	101	amendments made by this Act. 13
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