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119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 473
To restore in-person work at Federal agencies to not less than pre-pandemic
levels, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY16, 2025
Mr. C
OMER(for himself, Mr. HIGGINSof Louisiana, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. BIGGS
of Arizona, Mr. C
LOUD, Ms. FOXX, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. CRANE, Mr.
P
ALMER, Mr. MCGUIRE, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. FALLON, Mr. BURLISON,
Mr. S
ESSIONS, Mr. JACK, Mr. BURCHETT, Ms. BOEBERT, Mr. PERRY,
and Ms. G
REENEof Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To restore in-person work at Federal agencies to not less
than pre-pandemic levels, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stopping Home Office 4
Work’s Unproductive Problems Act of 2025’’ or the 5
‘‘SHOW UP Act of 2025’’. 6
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SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT OF PRE-PANDEMIC TELEWORK 1
POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EX-2
ECUTIVE AGENCIES. 3
Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 4
of this Act, each agency shall adopt and apply telework 5
policies, practices, and levels at the agency that are equiv-6
alent to, or otherwise permit no additional levels of 7
telework than, those which were in effect on December 31, 8
2019, and may not expand any such policy, practice, or 9
level until the date that an agency plan is submitted to 10
Congress with a certification by the Director of the Office 11
of Personnel Management under section 3. 12
SEC. 3. STUDY, PLAN, AND CERTIFICATION REGARDING EX-13
ECUTIVE AGENCY TELEWORK POLICIES, 14
PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EXECUTIVE 15
AGENCIES. 16
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the 17
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency, 18
in consultation with the Director, shall submit to Con-19
gress— 20
(1) a study on the impacts on the agency and 21
its mission of expanding telework by its employees 22
during the SARS–CoV–2 pandemic that commenced 23
in 2019 and maintaining such expanded telework 24
thereafter, including an analysis of— 25
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(A) any adverse impacts of that expansion 1
on the agency’s performance of its mission, in-2
cluding the performance of customer service by 3
the agency; 4
(B) any costs to the agency during that ex-5
pansion attributable to— 6
(i) owning, leasing, or maintaining un-7
derutilized real property; or 8
(ii) paying higher rates of locality pay 9
to teleworking employees as a result of in-10
correctly classifying such employees as 11
teleworkers rather than remote workers; 12
(C) any degree to which the agency failed 13
during that expansion to provide teleworking 14
employees with secure network capacity, com-15
munications tools, necessary and secure access 16
to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 17
records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 18
such employee to be fully productive; 19
(D) any degree to which that expansion fa-20
cilitated dispersal of the agency workforce 21
around the Nation; and 22
(E) any other impacts of that expansion 23
that the agency or the Director considers ap-24
propriate; 25
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(2) any agency plan to expand telework policies, 1
practices, or levels beyond those in place as a result 2
of section 2; and 3
(3) a certification by the Director that such 4
plan will— 5
(A) have a substantial positive effect on— 6
(i) the performance of the agency’s 7
mission, including the performance of cus-8
tomer service; 9
(ii) increasing the level of dispersal of 10
agency personnel throughout the Nation; 11
and 12
(iii) the reversal of any adverse im-13
pact set forth pursuant to paragraph 14
(1)(D); 15
(B) substantially lower the agency’s costs 16
of owning, leasing, or maintaining real prop-17
erty; 18
(C) substantially lower the agency’s costs 19
attributable to paying locality pay to agency 20
personnel working from locations outside the 21
pay locality of their position’s official worksite; 22
and 23
(D) ensure that teleworking employees will 24
be provided with secure network capacity, com-25
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munications tools, necessary and secure access 1
to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 2
records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 3
such employee to be fully productive, without 4
substantially increasing the agency’s overall 5
costs for secure network capacity, communica-6
tions tools, and equipment. 7
(b) L
IMITATION.— 8
(1) I
N GENERAL.—An agency may not imple-9
ment the plan submitted under subsection (a)(2) un-10
less a certification by the Director was issued under 11
subsection (a)(3). 12
(2) S
UBSEQUENT PLANS .—In the event an ini-13
tial agency plan submitted under subsection (a)(2) 14
fails to receive such certification, the agency may 15
submit to the Director subsequent plans until such 16
certification is received, and submit such plan and 17
certification to Congress. 18
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this Act— 19
(1) the term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given 20
the term ‘‘Executive agency’’ in section 105 of title 21
5, United States Code, except that such term does 22
not include the Government Accountability Office; 23
(2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 24
the Office of Personnel Management; 25
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(3) the term ‘‘locality pay’’ means locality pay 1
provided for under section 5304 or 5304a of such 2
title; and 3
(4) the terms ‘‘telework’’ and ‘‘teleworking’’ 4
have the meaning given those terms in section 6501 5
of such title, and include remote work. 6
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