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2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 473
5	5	To restore in-person work at Federal agencies to not less than pre-pandemic
6	6	levels, and for other purposes.
7	7	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
8	8	JANUARY16, 2025
9	9	Mr. C
10	10	OMER(for himself, Mr. HIGGINSof Louisiana, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. BIGGS
11	11	of Arizona, Mr. C
12	12	LOUD, Ms. FOXX, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. CRANE, Mr.
13	13	P
14	14	ALMER, Mr. MCGUIRE, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. FALLON, Mr. BURLISON,
15	15	Mr. S
16	16	ESSIONS, Mr. JACK, Mr. BURCHETT, Ms. BOEBERT, Mr. PERRY,
17	17	and Ms. G
18	18	REENEof Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was re-
19	19	ferred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
20	20	A BILL
21	21	To restore in-person work at Federal agencies to not less
22	22	than pre-pandemic levels, and for other purposes.
23	23	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
24	24	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
25	25	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
26	26	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stopping Home Office 4
27	27	Work’s Unproductive Problems Act of 2025’’ or the 5
28	28	‘‘SHOW UP Act of 2025’’. 6
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32	32	SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT OF PRE-PANDEMIC TELEWORK 1
33	33	POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EX-2
34	34	ECUTIVE AGENCIES. 3
35	35	Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 4
36	36	of this Act, each agency shall adopt and apply telework 5
37	37	policies, practices, and levels at the agency that are equiv-6
38	38	alent to, or otherwise permit no additional levels of 7
39	39	telework than, those which were in effect on December 31, 8
40	40	2019, and may not expand any such policy, practice, or 9
41	41	level until the date that an agency plan is submitted to 10
42	42	Congress with a certification by the Director of the Office 11
43	43	of Personnel Management under section 3. 12
44	44	SEC. 3. STUDY, PLAN, AND CERTIFICATION REGARDING EX-13
45	45	ECUTIVE AGENCY TELEWORK POLICIES, 14
46	46	PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EXECUTIVE 15
47	47	AGENCIES. 16
48	48	(a) I
49	49	NGENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the 17
50	50	date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency, 18
51	51	in consultation with the Director, shall submit to Con-19
52	52	gress— 20
53	53	(1) a study on the impacts on the agency and 21
54	54	its mission of expanding telework by its employees 22
55	55	during the SARS–CoV–2 pandemic that commenced 23
56	56	in 2019 and maintaining such expanded telework 24
57	57	thereafter, including an analysis of— 25
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61	61	(A) any adverse impacts of that expansion 1
62	62	on the agency’s performance of its mission, in-2
63	63	cluding the performance of customer service by 3
64	64	the agency; 4
65	65	(B) any costs to the agency during that ex-5
66	66	pansion attributable to— 6
67	67	(i) owning, leasing, or maintaining un-7
68	68	derutilized real property; or 8
69	69	(ii) paying higher rates of locality pay 9
70	70	to teleworking employees as a result of in-10
71	71	correctly classifying such employees as 11
72	72	teleworkers rather than remote workers; 12
73	73	(C) any degree to which the agency failed 13
74	74	during that expansion to provide teleworking 14
75	75	employees with secure network capacity, com-15
76	76	munications tools, necessary and secure access 16
77	77	to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 17
78	78	records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 18
79	79	such employee to be fully productive; 19
80	80	(D) any degree to which that expansion fa-20
81	81	cilitated dispersal of the agency workforce 21
82	82	around the Nation; and 22
83	83	(E) any other impacts of that expansion 23
84	84	that the agency or the Director considers ap-24
85	85	propriate; 25
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89	89	(2) any agency plan to expand telework policies, 1
90	90	practices, or levels beyond those in place as a result 2
91	91	of section 2; and 3
92	92	(3) a certification by the Director that such 4
93	93	plan will— 5
94	94	(A) have a substantial positive effect on— 6
95	95	(i) the performance of the agency’s 7
96	96	mission, including the performance of cus-8
97	97	tomer service; 9
98	98	(ii) increasing the level of dispersal of 10
99	99	agency personnel throughout the Nation; 11
100	100	and 12
101	101	(iii) the reversal of any adverse im-13
102	102	pact set forth pursuant to paragraph 14
103	103	(1)(D); 15
104	104	(B) substantially lower the agency’s costs 16
105	105	of owning, leasing, or maintaining real prop-17
106	106	erty; 18
107	107	(C) substantially lower the agency’s costs 19
108	108	attributable to paying locality pay to agency 20
109	109	personnel working from locations outside the 21
110	110	pay locality of their position’s official worksite; 22
111	111	and 23
112	112	(D) ensure that teleworking employees will 24
113	113	be provided with secure network capacity, com-25
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117	117	munications tools, necessary and secure access 1
118	118	to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 2
119	119	records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 3
120	120	such employee to be fully productive, without 4
121	121	substantially increasing the agency’s overall 5
122	122	costs for secure network capacity, communica-6
123	123	tions tools, and equipment. 7
124	124	(b) L
125	125	IMITATION.— 8
126	126	(1) I
127	127	N GENERAL.—An agency may not imple-9
128	128	ment the plan submitted under subsection (a)(2) un-10
129	129	less a certification by the Director was issued under 11
130	130	subsection (a)(3). 12
131	131	(2) S
132	132	UBSEQUENT PLANS .—In the event an ini-13
133	133	tial agency plan submitted under subsection (a)(2) 14
134	134	fails to receive such certification, the agency may 15
135	135	submit to the Director subsequent plans until such 16
136	136	certification is received, and submit such plan and 17
137	137	certification to Congress. 18
138	138	(c) D
139	139	EFINITIONS.—In this Act— 19
140	140	(1) the term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given 20
141	141	the term ‘‘Executive agency’’ in section 105 of title 21
142	142	5, United States Code, except that such term does 22
143	143	not include the Government Accountability Office; 23
144	144	(2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 24
145	145	the Office of Personnel Management; 25
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149	149	(3) the term ‘‘locality pay’’ means locality pay 1
150	150	provided for under section 5304 or 5304a of such 2
151	151	title; and 3
152	152	(4) the terms ‘‘telework’’ and ‘‘teleworking’’ 4
153	153	have the meaning given those terms in section 6501 5
154	154	of such title, and include remote work. 6
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