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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 697 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To establish Schedule Policy/Career (commonly referred to as ‘‘Schedule F’’) |
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| 6 | 6 | | in the excepted service, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY23, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. O |
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| 10 | 10 | | GLESintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 11 | 11 | | on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To establish Schedule Policy/Career (commonly referred to |
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| 14 | 14 | | as ‘‘Schedule F’’) in the excepted service, and for other |
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| 15 | 15 | | purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Enabling Necessary 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Discipline with the Defense of Executives’ Endeavors to 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Properly Staff Their Agencies with Trustworthy Employ-6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ees Act’’ or the ‘‘End the Deep State Act’’. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | It is the sense of Congress that— 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) accountability is essential for all Federal 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | employees; 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (2) any power these Federal employees have is 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | delegated by the President, and they must be ac-4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | countable to the President, who is the only member 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | of the executive branch, other than the Vice Presi-6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | dent, elected and directly accountable to the Amer-7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ican people; and 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (3) the President and his appointees must be 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | able to rely on men and women in the Federal serv-10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ice employed in positions of a confidential, policy-de-11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | termining, policy-making, or policy-advocating char-12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | acter. 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | SEC. 3. DEFINITION. 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | In this Act, the phrase ‘‘normally subject to change 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | as a result of a Presidential transition’’ refers to positions 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | whose occupants are, as a matter of practice, expected to 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | resign upon a Presidential transition and includes all posi-18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | tions whose appointment requires the assent of the White 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | House Office of Presidential Personnel. 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | SEC. 4. EXCEPTED SERVICE. 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Appointments of individuals to positions of a con-22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | fidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-ad-23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | vocating character that are not normally subject to change 24 |
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| 52 | 52 | | as a result of a Presidential transition shall be made under 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | Schedule Policy/Career of the excepted service, as estab-1 |
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| 57 | 57 | | lished by section 5 of this Act. 2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | SEC. 5. SCHEDULE POLICY/CAREER OF THE EXCEPTED 3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | SERVICE. 4 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (a) I |
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| 61 | 61 | | NGENERAL.—The Office of Personnel Manage-5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | ment (in this Act referred to as ‘‘OPM’’) shall list posi-6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | tions that it excepts from the competitive service in Sched-7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ules A, B, C, D, E, and Policy/Career, as follows: 8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (1) S |
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| 66 | 66 | | CHEDULE A.—Positions other than those 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | of a confidential or policy-determining character for 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | which it is not practicable to examine shall be listed 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | in Schedule A. 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (2) S |
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| 71 | 71 | | CHEDULE B.—Positions other than those 13 |
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| 72 | 72 | | of a confidential or policy-determining character for 14 |
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| 73 | 73 | | which it is not practicable to hold a competitive ex-15 |
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| 74 | 74 | | amination shall be listed in Schedule B. Appoint-16 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ments to these positions shall be subject to such 17 |
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| 76 | 76 | | noncompetitive examination as may be prescribed by 18 |
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| 77 | 77 | | OPM. 19 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (3) S |
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| 79 | 79 | | CHEDULE C.—Positions of a confidential 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | or policy-determining character normally subject to 21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | change as a result of a Presidential transition shall 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | be listed in Schedule C. 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | (4) S |
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| 84 | 84 | | CHEDULE D.—Positions other than those 24 |
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| 85 | 85 | | of a confidential or policy-determining character for 25 |
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| 89 | 89 | | which the competitive service requirements make im-1 |
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| 90 | 90 | | practicable the adequate recruitment of sufficient 2 |
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| 91 | 91 | | numbers of students attending qualifying edu-3 |
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| 92 | 92 | | cational institutions or individuals who have recently 4 |
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| 93 | 93 | | completed qualifying educational programs. These 5 |
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| 94 | 94 | | positions, which are temporarily placed in the ex-6 |
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| 95 | 95 | | cepted service to enable more effective recruitment 7 |
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| 96 | 96 | | from all segments of society by using means of re-8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | cruiting and assessing candidates that diverge from 9 |
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| 98 | 98 | | the rules generally applicable to the competitive serv-10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | ice, shall be listed in Schedule D. 11 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (5) S |
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| 101 | 101 | | CHEDULE E.—Position of administrative 12 |
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| 102 | 102 | | law judge appointed under section 3105 of title 5, 13 |
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| 103 | 103 | | United States Code. Conditions of good administra-14 |
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| 104 | 104 | | tion warrant that the position of administrative law 15 |
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| 105 | 105 | | judge be placed in the excepted service and that ap-16 |
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| 106 | 106 | | pointment to this position not be subject to the re-17 |
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| 107 | 107 | | quirements of part 302 of title 5, Code of Federal 18 |
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| 108 | 108 | | Regulations, including examination and rating re-19 |
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| 109 | 109 | | quirements, though each agency shall follow the 20 |
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| 110 | 110 | | principle of veteran preference as far as administra-21 |
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| 111 | 111 | | tively feasible. 22 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (6) S |
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| 113 | 113 | | CHEDULE POLICY/CAREER.—Career posi-23 |
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| 114 | 114 | | tions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy- 24 |
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| 115 | 115 | | making, or policy-advocating character not normally 25 |
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| 119 | 119 | | subject to change as a result of a Presidential tran-1 |
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| 120 | 120 | | sition shall be listed in Schedule Policy/Career. In 2 |
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| 121 | 121 | | appointing an individual to a position in Schedule 3 |
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| 122 | 122 | | Policy/Career, each agency shall follow the principle 4 |
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| 123 | 123 | | of veteran preference as far as administratively fea-5 |
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| 124 | 124 | | sible. 6 |
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| 125 | 125 | | (b) E |
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| 126 | 126 | | XCEPTION.—Except as required by statute, the 7 |
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| 127 | 127 | | Civil Service Rules and Regulations shall not apply to re-8 |
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| 128 | 128 | | movals from positions listed in Schedules A, C, D, E, or 9 |
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| 129 | 129 | | Policy/Career, or from positions excepted from the com-10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | petitive service by statute. The Civil Service Rules and 11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | Regulations shall apply to removals from positions listed 12 |
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| 132 | 132 | | in Schedule B of persons who have competitive status. 13 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (c) OPM.—The Director of the Office of Personnel 14 |
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| 134 | 134 | | Management (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Director’’) 15 |
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| 135 | 135 | | shall, not later than January 19, 2029— 16 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (1) adopt such regulations as the Director de-17 |
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| 137 | 137 | | termines may be necessary to implement this Act in-18 |
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| 138 | 138 | | cluding, as appropriate, providing for the application 19 |
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| 139 | 139 | | of Civil Service Rule 6.3(a) (as amended on the date 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | of the enactment of this Act) to Schedule Policy/Ca-21 |
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| 141 | 141 | | reer positions and amendments to or rescissions of 22 |
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| 142 | 142 | | regulations that are inconsistent with, or that would 23 |
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| 143 | 143 | | impede the implementation of, this Act, giving par-24 |
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| 144 | 144 | | ticular attention to subpart D of part 212, subparts 25 |
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| 148 | 148 | | A and C of part 213, and section 302.101 of title 1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | 5, Code of Federal Regulations; and 2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (2) provide guidance on conducting a swift, or-3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | derly transition from existing appointment processes 4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | to the Schedule Policy/Career process established by 5 |
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| 153 | 153 | | this Act. 6 |
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| 154 | 154 | | SEC. 6. AGENCY ACTIONS. 7 |
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| 155 | 155 | | (a) I |
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| 156 | 156 | | NGENERAL.—Each head of an executive agency 8 |
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| 157 | 157 | | (as that term is defined in section 105 of title 5, United 9 |
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| 158 | 158 | | States Code, but excluding the Government Accountability 10 |
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| 159 | 159 | | Office) shall conduct, by April 20, 2025, a preliminary re-11 |
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| 160 | 160 | | view of agency positions covered by subchapter II of chap-12 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ter 75 of such title 5, and shall conduct a complete review 13 |
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| 162 | 162 | | of such positions by August 18, 2025. Thereafter, each 14 |
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| 163 | 163 | | agency head shall conduct a review of agency positions 15 |
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| 164 | 164 | | covered by such subchapter II on at least an annual basis. 16 |
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| 165 | 165 | | Following such reviews each agency head shall— 17 |
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| 166 | 166 | | (1) for positions not excepted from the competi-18 |
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| 167 | 167 | | tive service by statute, petition the Director to rec-19 |
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| 168 | 168 | | ommend that the President place in Schedule Policy/ 20 |
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| 169 | 169 | | Career any such competitive service, Schedule A, 21 |
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| 170 | 170 | | Schedule B, or Schedule D positions within the 22 |
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| 171 | 171 | | agency that the agency head determines to be of a 23 |
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| 172 | 172 | | confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or 24 |
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| 173 | 173 | | policy-advocating character and that are not nor-25 |
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| 178 | 178 | | transition. Any such petition shall include a written 2 |
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| 179 | 179 | | explanation documenting the basis for the agency 3 |
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| 180 | 180 | | head’s determination that such position should be 4 |
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| 181 | 181 | | placed in Schedule Policy/Career; and 5 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (2) for positions excepted from the competitive 6 |
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| 183 | 183 | | service by statute, determine which such positions 7 |
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| 184 | 184 | | are of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-mak-8 |
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| 185 | 185 | | ing, or policy-advocating character and are not nor-9 |
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| 186 | 186 | | mally subject to change as a result of a Presidential 10 |
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| 187 | 187 | | transition. 11 |
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| 188 | 188 | | (b) P |
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| 189 | 189 | | UBLICATION.—The determination under sub-12 |
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| 190 | 190 | | section (a)(2) shall be published by the applicable agency 13 |
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| 191 | 191 | | head in the Federal Register. Such positions shall be con-14 |
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| 192 | 192 | | sidered Schedule Policy/Career positions for the purposes 15 |
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| 193 | 193 | | of agency actions under sections 6(e) and 7 of this Act. 16 |
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| 194 | 194 | | (c) A |
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| 195 | 195 | | PPLICATION.—The requirements of subsection 17 |
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| 196 | 196 | | (a) shall apply to currently existing positions and newly 18 |
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| 197 | 197 | | created positions. 19 |
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| 198 | 198 | | (d) R |
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| 199 | 199 | | EQUIREMENTS.—When conducting the review 20 |
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| 200 | 200 | | required by subsection (a), each agency head should give 21 |
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| 201 | 201 | | particular consideration to the appropriateness of either 22 |
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| 202 | 202 | | petitioning the Director to place in Schedule Policy/Career 23 |
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| 203 | 203 | | or including in the determination published in the Federal 24 |
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| 207 | 207 | | Register, as applicable, positions whose duties include the 1 |
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| 208 | 208 | | following: 2 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (1) Substantive participation in the advocacy 3 |
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| 210 | 210 | | for or development or formulation of policy, espe-4 |
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| 211 | 211 | | cially— 5 |
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| 212 | 212 | | (A) substantive participation in the devel-6 |
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| 213 | 213 | | opment or drafting of regulations and guidance; 7 |
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| 214 | 214 | | or 8 |
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| 215 | 215 | | (B) substantive policy-related work in an 9 |
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| 216 | 216 | | agency or agency component that primarily fo-10 |
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| 217 | 217 | | cuses on policy. 11 |
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| 218 | 218 | | (2) The supervision of attorneys. 12 |
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| 219 | 219 | | (3) Substantial discretion to determine the 13 |
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| 220 | 220 | | manner in which the agency exercises functions com-14 |
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| 221 | 221 | | mitted to the agency by law. 15 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (4) Viewing, circulating, or otherwise working 16 |
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| 223 | 223 | | with proposed regulations, guidance, Executive or-17 |
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| 224 | 224 | | ders, or other non-public policy proposals or delib-18 |
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| 225 | 225 | | erations generally covered by deliberative process 19 |
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| 226 | 226 | | privilege and either— 20 |
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| 227 | 227 | | (A) directly reporting to or regularly work-21 |
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| 228 | 228 | | ing with an individual appointed by either the 22 |
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| 229 | 229 | | President or an agency head who is paid at a 23 |
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| 230 | 230 | | rate not less than that earned by employees at 24 |
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| 231 | 231 | | Grade 13 of the General Schedule; or 25 |
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| 235 | 235 | | (B) working in the agency or agency com-1 |
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| 236 | 236 | | ponent executive secretariat (or equivalent). 2 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (5) Conducting, on the agency’s behalf, collec-3 |
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| 238 | 238 | | tive bargaining negotiations under chapter 71 of title 4 |
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| 239 | 239 | | 5, United States Code. 5 |
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| 240 | 240 | | (6) Directly or indirectly supervising employees 6 |
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| 241 | 241 | | in Schedule Policy/Career positions. 7 |
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| 242 | 242 | | (7) Duties that the Director otherwise indicates 8 |
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| 243 | 243 | | may be appropriate for inclusion in Schedule Policy/ 9 |
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| 244 | 244 | | Career. 10 |
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| 245 | 245 | | (e) R |
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| 246 | 246 | | ECOMMENDATION .—The Director shall prompt-11 |
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| 247 | 247 | | ly recommend to the President which positions should be 12 |
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| 248 | 248 | | placed in Schedule Policy/Career. 13 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (f) C |
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| 250 | 250 | | OLLECTIVEBARGAINING.—Each agency head 14 |
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| 251 | 251 | | shall, as necessary and appropriate, expeditiously petition 15 |
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| 252 | 252 | | the Federal Labor Relations Authority to determine 16 |
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| 253 | 253 | | whether any Schedule Policy/Career position must be ex-17 |
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| 254 | 254 | | cluded from a collective bargaining unit under section 18 |
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| 255 | 255 | | 7112(b) of title 5, United States Code, paying particular 19 |
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| 256 | 256 | | attention to the question of whether incumbents in such 20 |
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| 257 | 257 | | positions are required or authorized to formulate, deter-21 |
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| 258 | 258 | | mine, or influence the policies of the agency. 22 |
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| 259 | 259 | | SEC. 7. PROHIBITED PERSONNEL PRACTICES PROHIBITED. 23 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (a) I |
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| 261 | 261 | | NGENERAL.—Agencies shall establish rules to 24 |
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| 262 | 262 | | prohibit the personnel practices prohibited by section 25 |
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| 266 | 266 | | 2302(b) of title 5, United States Code, with respect to 1 |
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| 267 | 267 | | any employee or applicant for employment in Schedule 2 |
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| 268 | 268 | | Policy/Career of the excepted service. 3 |
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| 269 | 269 | | (b) R |
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| 270 | 270 | | EQUIREMENTS.—Employees in or applicants for 4 |
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| 271 | 271 | | Schedule Policy/Career positions are not required to per-5 |
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| 272 | 272 | | sonally or politically support the current President or the 6 |
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| 273 | 273 | | policies of the current administration. They are required 7 |
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| 274 | 274 | | to faithfully implement administration policies to the best 8 |
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| 275 | 275 | | of their ability, consistent with their constitutional oath 9 |
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| 276 | 276 | | and the vesting of executive authority solely in the Presi-10 |
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| 277 | 277 | | dent. Failure to do so is grounds for dismissal. 11 |
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| 278 | 278 | | SEC. 8. CONFORMING REGULATORY CHANGES. 12 |
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| 279 | 279 | | The Director shall promptly amend the Civil Service 13 |
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| 280 | 280 | | Regulations to rescind all changes made by the final rule 14 |
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| 281 | 281 | | of April 9, 2024, ‘‘Upholding Civil Service Protections and 15 |
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| 282 | 282 | | Merit System Principles,’’ 89 Fed. Reg. 24982, that im-16 |
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| 283 | 283 | | pede the purposes of or would otherwise affect the imple-17 |
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| 284 | 284 | | mentation of Executive Order 13957. Until such rescis-18 |
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| 285 | 285 | | sions are effectuated (including the resolution of any judi-19 |
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| 286 | 286 | | cial review), subpart F of part 302, section 210.102(b)(3), 20 |
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| 287 | 287 | | and section 210.102(b)(4) of title 5, Code of Federal Reg-21 |
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| 288 | 288 | | ulations, shall be held inoperative and without effect. 22 |
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| 289 | 289 | | SEC. 9. ADDITIONAL POSITIONS FOR CONSIDERATION. 23 |
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| 290 | 290 | | Not later than 30 days after the date of the enact-24 |
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| 291 | 291 | | ment of this Act, the Director shall, after consultation 25 |
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| 295 | 295 | | with the Executive Office of the President, issue guidance 1 |
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| 296 | 296 | | about additional categories of positions that executive de-2 |
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| 297 | 297 | | partments and agencies should consider recommending for 3 |
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| 298 | 298 | | Schedule Policy/Career. 4 |
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| 299 | 299 | | SEC. 10. REVOCATION. 5 |
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| 300 | 300 | | Executive Order 14003 of January 22, 2021 (Pro-6 |
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| 301 | 301 | | tecting the Federal Workforce), shall have no force or ef-7 |
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| 302 | 302 | | fect, and any rules, regulations, guidance, or other agency 8 |
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| 303 | 303 | | policies effectuated under Executive Order 14003 shall not 9 |
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| 304 | 304 | | be enforced. The heads of each executive department and 10 |
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| 305 | 305 | | agency shall review and identify existing agency actions 11 |
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| 306 | 306 | | relating to or arising under section 3(e)(v) and 3(f) of Ex-12 |
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| 307 | 307 | | ecutive Order 14003 (relating to suspending, revising, or 13 |
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| 308 | 308 | | rescinding revisions to discipline and unacceptable per-14 |
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| 309 | 309 | | formance policies) and, as soon as practicable, suspend, 15 |
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| 310 | 310 | | revise, or rescind such actions identified in the review. 16 |
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| 311 | 311 | | SEC. 11. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 17 |
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| 312 | 312 | | (a) S |
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| 313 | 313 | | EVERABILITY.—If any provision of this Act, or 18 |
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| 314 | 314 | | the application of any provision to any person or cir-19 |
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| 315 | 315 | | cumstances, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this 20 |
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| 316 | 316 | | Act and the application of any of its other provisions to 21 |
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| 317 | 317 | | any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected 22 |
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| 318 | 318 | | thereby. 23 |
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| 322 | 322 | | (b) APPLICATION.—Nothing in this Act shall be con-1 |
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| 323 | 323 | | strued to limit or narrow the positions that are or may 2 |
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| 324 | 324 | | be listed in Schedule C. 3 |
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