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Calendar No. 21
119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION S. 298
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to relocate
30 percent of the employees assigned to headquarters to duty stations
outside the Washington metropolitan area, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY29, 2025
Ms. E
RNST(for herself, Mrs. BLACKBURN, and Mr. SCOTTof South Carolina)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
M
ARCH4, 2025
Reported by Ms. E
RNST, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Adminis-
tration to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned
to headquarters to duty stations outside the Washington
metropolitan area, 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
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SECTION1.SHORTTITLE. 1
ThisActmaybecitedasthe‘‘ReturningSBAto 2
MainStreetAct’’. 3
SEC.2.DEFINITIONS. 4
InthisAct: 5
(1)ADMINISTRATION;ADMINISTRATOR.—The 6
terms‘‘Administration’’and‘‘Administrator’’mean 7
theSmallBusinessAdministrationandtheAdminis-8
tratorthereof,respectively. 9
(2)BUDGETJUSTIFICATIONMATERIALS.—The 10
term‘‘budgetjustificationmaterials’’hasthemean-11
inggiventhatterminsection3(b)(2)(A)oftheFed-12
eralFundingAccountabilityandTransparencyAct 13
of2006(31U.S.C.6101note). 14
(3)EMPLOYEE.—Theterm‘‘employee’’hasthe 15
meaninggiventhatterminsection2105oftitle5, 16
UnitedStatesCode. 17
(4)HEADQUARTERS EMPLOYEEOFTHEADMIN-18
ISTRATION.—Theterm‘‘headquartersemployeeof 19
theAdministration’’means— 20
(A)anemployeeoftheAdministration 21
whosepermanentdutystationisatthehead-22
quartersoftheAdministration;or 23
(B)anemployeeoftheAdministration— 24
(i)whoteleworksonafull-timebasis; 25
and 26
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(ii)whoserateofpayiscalculated 1
basedontheWashingtonmetropolitan 2
arearateofpay. 3
(5)HEADQUARTERS OFTHEADMINISTRA-4
TION.—Theterm‘‘headquartersoftheAdministra-5
tion’’meansthebuildingservingastheprincipal 6
managerialandadministrativecenteroftheAdmin-7
istration,inaccordancewithsection4(a)ofthe 8
SmallBusinessAct(15U.S.C.633(a)). 9
(6)PAYLOCALITY.—Theterm‘‘paylocality’’ 10
hasthemeaninggiventhatterminsection5302of 11
title5,UnitedStatesCode. 12
(7)RURAL.—Theterm‘‘rural’’meansanyarea 13
thatisnotdesignatedasanurbanarea,basedon 14
themostrecentdataavailablefromtheBureauof 15
theCensus. 16
(8)TELEWORK.—Theterm‘‘telework’’hasthe 17
meaninggiventhatterminsection6501oftitle5, 18
UnitedStatesCode. 19
(9)TELEWORK ONAFULL-TIMEBASIS.—The 20
term‘‘teleworkonafull-timebasis’’meansthatan 21
employeeisauthorizedtoteleworkfor100percent 22
oftheworkdaysoftheemployeeperpayperiod. 23
(10)WASHINGTONMETROPOLITAN AREA.—The 24
term‘‘Washingtonmetropolitanarea’’meansthege-25
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ographicareatowhichtheWashingtonmetropolitan 1
arearateofpayapplies. 2
(11)WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREARATE 3
OFPAY.—Theterm‘‘Washingtonmetropolitanarea 4
rateofpay’’meanstherateofpayineffectforthe 5
paylocalitydesignatedas‘‘Washington-Baltimore- 6
Arlington,DC-MD-VA-WV-PA’’. 7
SEC.3.RELOCATION OFEMPLOYEES. 8
(a)INGENERAL.—Notwithstandinganyotherprovi-9
sionsoflaw,andnotlaterthan1yearafterthedateof 10
enactmentofthisAct,theAdministratorshall— 11
(1)changethepermanentdutystationofnot 12
lessthan30percentoftheheadquartersemployees 13
oftheAdministration,asofthedateofenactment 14
ofthisAct,tobeatanofficeoftheAdministration 15
atalocationoutsidetheWashingtonmetropolitan 16
area,whichshallbeatlocationsthroughoutthere-17
gionsoftheAdministration;and 18
(2)foreachemployeeoftheAdministration 19
whosepermanentdutystationischangedunder 20
paragraph(1),ensurethat— 21
(A)therateofpayoftheemployeeiscal-22
culatedbasedonthepaylocalityfortheperma-23
nentdutystationoftheemployee;and 24
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(B)theemployeeisnotauthorizedto 1
teleworkonafull-timebasis. 2
(b)DETERMINATION OFNEWDUTYSTATIONS.—In 3
determiningthepermanentdutystationsofheadquarters 4
employeesoftheAdministrationundersubsection(a),the 5
Administratorshall— 6
(1)promotegeographicdiversity,includingcon-7
siderationofruralmarkets;and 8
(2)ensureadequatestaffingthroughoutthere-9
gionsoftheAdministration,topromotein-person 10
customerservice. 11
(c)DETERMINATION OFEMPLOYEESELIGIBLEFOR 12
ACHANGEINDUTYSTATION.— 13
(1)INGENERAL.—Exceptasprovidedinpara-14
graph(2),theAdministratorshallincludeeach 15
headquartersemployeeoftheAdministrationaseli-16
gibleforachangeinpermanentdutystationunder 17
subsection(a). 18
(2)EXCEPTION.—Aheadquartersemployeeof 19
theAdministrationwhoisaqualifiedindividualwho 20
receivesanaccommodationtoteleworkonafull-time 21
basisasareasonableaccommodationundertitleIof 22
theAmericanswithDisabilitiesActof1990(42 23
U.S.C.12111etseq.)— 24
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(A)shallnotbedeterminedtobeeligible 1
forachangeinpermanentdutystationunder 2
subsection(a);and 3
(B)shallbecountedasaheadquartersem-4
ployeeoftheAdministrationforpurposesof 5
complyingwithsubsection(a)(1). 6
(3)NOTICEOFDETERMINATION OFELIGI-7
BILITY.—Notlaterthanthedaybeforethedateon 8
whichtheAdministratorsubmitsthereportrequired 9
undersubsection(d),theAdministratorshallnotify 10
eachheadquartersemployeeoftheAdministration 11
whotheAdministratordeterminesiseligiblefora 12
changeinpermanentdutystationundersubsection 13
(a)ofthatdetermination. 14
(d)REPORT.—Notlaterthan180daysafterthedate 15
ofenactmentofthisAct,theAdministratorshallsubmit 16
totheCommitteeonSmallBusinessandEntrepreneur-17
shipoftheSenateandtheCommitteeonSmallBusiness 18
oftheHouseofRepresentativesareportthatprovides— 19
(1)thenumberofheadquartersemployeesof 20
theAdministration,asofthedateofenactmentof 21
thisAct; 22
(2)thenumberofheadquartersemployeesof 23
theAdministrationidentifiedaseligibleforachange 24
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inpermanentdutystation,inaccordancewithsub-1
section(c); 2
(3)thenumberofheadquartersemployeesof 3
theAdministrationwhosepermanentdutystation 4
willbechangedtobeatanofficeoftheAdministra-5
tionatalocationoutsidetheWashingtonmetropoli-6
tanareaundersubsection(a); 7
(4)thenumberofheadquartersemployeesof 8
theAdministrationsubjecttoanexceptionunder 9
subsection(c)(2);and 10
(5)theplanoftheAdministratortoimplement 11
subsection(a). 12
(e)IMPLEMENTATION.— 13
(1)INGENERAL.—Notearlierthan60days, 14
andnotlaterthan90days,afterthedateonwhich 15
theAdministratorsubmitsthereportrequiredunder 16
subsection(d),theAdministratorshallnotifyeach 17
headquartersemployeeoftheAdministrationwhose 18
permanentdutystationwillbechangedtobeatan 19
officeoftheAdministrationlocatedoutsidethe 20
Washingtonmetropolitanareaundersubsection 21
(a)— 22
(A)that,effective90daysafterthedate 23
ofthenotification— 24
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(i)thepermanentdutystationofthe 1
employeeshallbechanged; 2
(ii)therateofpayoftheemployee 3
shallbecalculatedbasedonthepaylocal-4
ityforsuchpermanentdutystation;and 5
(iii)theemployeeshallnotbeauthor-6
izedtoteleworkonafull-timebasis;and 7
(B)ofthelocationofsuchpermanentduty 8
station. 9
(2)FULL-TIMETELEWORKERS REMAINING IN 10
THEWASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA.— 11
(A)INGENERAL.—Foranyemployeede-12
scribedinsubparagraph(B),effectiveonthe 13
datethatis180daysafterthedateonwhich 14
theAdministratorsubmitsthereportrequired 15
undersubsection(d),theemployeeshallnotbe 16
authorizedtoteleworkonafull-timebasis. 17
(B)EMPLOYEES COVERED.—Anemployee 18
describedinthissubparagraphisahead-19
quartersemployeeoftheAdministration— 20
(i)whoteleworksonafull-timebasis, 21
asofthedateofenactmentofthisAct; 22
(ii)whoisnotsubjecttoanexception 23
undersubsection(c)(2);and 24
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(iii)whosepermanentdutystationis 1
notchangedtobeanofficeoftheAdminis-2
trationatalocationoutsidetheWash-3
ingtonmetropolitanareaundersubsection 4
(a). 5
(3)NORELOCATIONINCENTIVES.—If,pursuant 6
tothisAct,theofficialworksite(asdefinedinsec-7
tion531.605oftitle5,CodeofFederalRegulations, 8
oranysuccessorregulation)ofanemployeechanges 9
fromtheresidenceoftheemployeetothehead-10
quartersoftheAdministration,notwithstandingany 11
otherprovisionoflaw,theemployeeshallnotbe 12
paidanyrelocationincentive. 13
SEC.4.REDUCTION INHEADQUARTERS OFFICESPACE. 14
(a)INGENERAL.—TheAdministratorshallreduce 15
theamountofofficespacefortheheadquartersoftheAd-16
ministrationbynotlessthan30percent. 17
(b)IMPLEMENTATION.—TheAdministratorshall— 18
(1)beginreducingofficespaceundersubsection 19
(a)notlaterthan180daysafterthedateofenact-20
mentofthisAct;and 21
(2)completethereductionofofficespacere-22
quiredundersubsection(a)notlaterthan2years 23
afterthedateofenactmentofthisAct. 24
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SEC.5.INFORMATION INCLUDED INBUDGET JUSTIFICA-1
TIONMATERIALS PROVIDED TOCONGRESS. 2
TheAdministratorshallincludeinthefirstbudget 3
justificationmaterialsoftheAdministrationsubmitted 4
afterthedateofenactmentofthisAct,andthebudget 5
justificationmaterialsoftheAdministrationforeachfiscal 6
yearthereafter— 7
(1)thenumberofheadquartersemployeesof 8
theAdministration; 9
(2)thenumberofemployeesoftheAdministra-10
tionassignedtoapermanentdutystationin— 11
(A)afieldofficeoftheAdministration; 12
(B)adistrictofficeoftheAdministration; 13
or 14
(C)aregionalofficeoftheAdministration; 15
(3)thenumberofemployeesoftheAdministra-16
tionwhoteleworkonafull-timebasis;and 17
(4)thenumberofemployeesoftheAdministra-18
tionwhoareaqualifiedindividualwhoreceivesan 19
accommodationtoteleworkonafull-timebasisasa 20
reasonableaccommodationundertitleIoftheAmer-21
icanswithDisabilitiesActof1990(42U.S.C. 22
12111etseq.). 23
SEC.6.SEVERABILITY. 24
IfanyprovisionofthisActortheapplicationofsuch 25
provisiontoanypersonorcircumstanceisheldtobeun-26
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constitutional,theremainderofthisActandtheapplica-1
tionoftheprovisiontoanyotherpersonorcircumstance 2
shallnotbeaffectedthereby. 3
SEC.7.SUPERSESSION. 4
ThisActshallsupersedeanyotherprovisionoflaw 5
andanyprovisionofacollectivebargainingagreementor 6
masterlaboragreement. 7
SEC.8.NOPRIVATECAUSEOFACTION. 8
NothinginthisActshallbeconstruedtoestablish 9
aprivatecauseofaction,equitableorotherwise,tochal-10
lengeanyselection,change,ordecisionmade,oraction 11
taken,underthisAct. 12
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 13
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Returning SBA to Main 14
Street Act’’. 15
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 16
In this Act: 17
(1) A
DMINISTRATION; ADMINISTRATOR.—The 18
terms ‘‘Administration’’ and ‘‘Administrator’’ mean 19
the Small Business Administration and the Adminis-20
trator thereof, respectively. 21
(2) B
UDGET JUSTIFICATION MATERIALS .—The 22
term ‘‘budget justification materials’’ has the meaning 23
given that term in section 3(b)(2)(A) of the Federal 24
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Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 1
2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 2
(3) E
MPLOYEE.—The term ‘‘employee’’ has the 3
meaning given that term in section 2105 of title 5, 4
United States Code. 5
(4) H
EADQUARTERS EMPLOYEE OF THE ADMIN -6
ISTRATION.—The term ‘‘headquarters employee of the 7
Administration’’ means— 8
(A) an employee of the Administration 9
whose permanent duty station is at the head-10
quarters of the Administration; or 11
(B) an employee of the Administration— 12
(i) who teleworks on a full-time basis; 13
and 14
(ii) whose rate of pay is calculated 15
based on the Washington metropolitan area 16
rate of pay. 17
(5) H
EADQUARTERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION .— 18
The term ‘‘headquarters of the Administration’’ 19
means the building serving as the principal manage-20
rial and administrative center of the Administration, 21
in accordance with section 4(a) of the Small Business 22
Act (15 U.S.C. 633(a)). 23
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(6) PAY LOCALITY.—The term ‘‘pay locality’’ has 1
the meaning given that term in section 5302 of title 2
5, United States Code. 3
(7) R
URAL.—The term ‘‘rural’’ means any area 4
that is not designated as an urban area, based on the 5
most recent data available from the Bureau of the 6
Census. 7
(8) T
ELEWORK.—The term ‘‘telework’’ has the 8
meaning given that term in section 6501 of title 5, 9
United States Code. 10
(9) T
ELEWORK ON A FULL -TIME BASIS.—The 11
term ‘‘telework on a full-time basis’’ means that an 12
employee is authorized to telework for 100 percent of 13
the work days of the employee per pay period. 14
(10) W
ASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA .—The 15
term ‘‘Washington metropolitan area’’ means the geo-16
graphic area to which the Washington metropolitan 17
area rate of pay applies. 18
(11) W
ASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA RATE 19
OF PAY.—The term ‘‘Washington metropolitan area 20
rate of pay’’ means the rate of pay in effect for the 21
pay locality designated as ‘‘Washington-Baltimore- 22
Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA’’. 23
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SEC. 3. RELOCATION OF EMPLOYEES. 1
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-2
sions of law, and not later than 1 year after the date of 3
enactment of this Act, if the Administrator determines that 4
implementing the requirements under paragraphs (1) and 5
(2) of this subsection will reduce the cost to the Federal Gov-6
ernment (which determination the Administrator shall ex-7
plain in detail in the report required under subsection (d) 8
of this section), the Administrator shall— 9
(1) change the permanent duty station of not less 10
than 30 percent of the headquarters employees of the 11
Administration, as of the date of enactment of this 12
Act, to be at an office of the Administration at a loca-13
tion outside the Washington metropolitan area, which 14
shall be at locations throughout the regions of the Ad-15
ministration; and 16
(2) for each employee of the Administration 17
whose permanent duty station is changed under para-18
graph (1), ensure that— 19
(A) the rate of pay of the employee is cal-20
culated based on the pay locality for the perma-21
nent duty station of the employee; and 22
(B) the employee is not authorized to 23
telework on a full-time basis. 24
(b) D
ETERMINATION OFNEWDUTYSTATIONS.—In de-25
termining the permanent duty stations of headquarters em-26
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ployees of the Administration under subsection (a)(1), the 1
Administrator shall— 2
(1) promote geographic diversity, including con-3
sideration of rural markets; and 4
(2) ensure adequate staffing throughout the re-5
gions of the Administration, to promote in-person 6
customer service. 7
(c) D
ETERMINATION OFEMPLOYEESELIGIBLE FOR A 8
C
HANGE INDUTYSTATION.— 9
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-10
graph (2), the Administrator shall include each head-11
quarters employee of the Administration as eligible 12
for a change in permanent duty station under sub-13
section (a). 14
(2) E
XCEPTION.—A headquarters employee of the 15
Administration who is a qualified individual who re-16
ceives an accommodation to telework on a full-time 17
basis as a reasonable accommodation under title I of 18
the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 19
U.S.C. 12111 et seq.)— 20
(A) shall not be determined to be eligible for 21
a change in permanent duty station under sub-22
section (a); and 23
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(B) shall be counted as a headquarters em-1
ployee of the Administration for purposes of 2
complying with subsection (a)(1). 3
(3) N
OTICE OF DETERMINATION OF ELIGI -4
BILITY.—Not later than the day before the date on 5
which the Administrator submits the report required 6
under subsection (d), the Administrator shall notify 7
each headquarters employee of the Administration 8
who the Administrator determines is eligible for a 9
change in permanent duty station under subsection 10
(a) of that determination. 11
(d) R
EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 12
of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit 13
to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship 14
of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the 15
House of Representatives a report that provides— 16
(1) the number of headquarters employees of the 17
Administration, as of the date of enactment of this 18
Act; 19
(2) the number of headquarters employees of the 20
Administration identified as eligible for a change in 21
permanent duty station, in accordance with sub-22
section (c); 23
(3) the number of headquarters employees of the 24
Administration whose permanent duty station will be 25
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changed to be at an office of the Administration at 1
a location outside the Washington metropolitan area 2
under subsection (a); 3
(4) the number of headquarters employees of the 4
Administration subject to an exception under sub-5
section (c)(2); and 6
(5) the plan of the Administrator to implement 7
subsection (a). 8
(e) I
MPLEMENTATION.— 9
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not earlier than 60 days, and 10
not later than 90 days, after the date on which the 11
Administrator submits the report required under sub-12
section (d), the Administrator shall notify each head-13
quarters employee of the Administration whose per-14
manent duty station will be changed to be at an office 15
of the Administration located outside the Washington 16
metropolitan area under subsection (a)— 17
(A) that, effective 90 days after the date of 18
the notification— 19
(i) the permanent duty station of the 20
employee shall be changed; 21
(ii) the rate of pay of the employee 22
shall be calculated based on the pay locality 23
for such permanent duty station; and 24
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(iii) the employee shall not be author-1
ized to telework on a full-time basis; and 2
(B) of the location of such permanent duty 3
station. 4
(2) F
ULL-TIME TELEWORKERS REMAINING IN 5
THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA .— 6
(A) I
N GENERAL.—For any employee de-7
scribed in subparagraph (B), effective on the 8
date that is 180 days after the date on which the 9
Administrator submits the report required under 10
subsection (d), the employee shall not be author-11
ized to telework on a full-time basis. 12
(B) E
MPLOYEES COVERED .—An employee 13
described in this subparagraph is a headquarters 14
employee of the Administration— 15
(i) who teleworks on a full-time basis, 16
as of the date of enactment of this Act; 17
(ii) who is not subject to an exception 18
under subsection (c)(2); and 19
(iii) whose permanent duty station is 20
not changed to be an office of the Adminis-21
tration at a location outside the Washington 22
metropolitan area under subsection (a). 23
(3) N
O RELOCATION INCENTIVES .—If, pursuant 24
to this Act, the official worksite (as defined in section 25
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531.602 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, or 1
any successor regulation) of an employee changes 2
from the residence of the employee to the headquarters 3
of the Administration, notwithstanding any other 4
provision of law, the employee shall not be paid any 5
relocation incentive. 6
SEC. 4. REDUCTION IN HEADQUARTERS OFFICE SPACE. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Administrator shall reduce the 8
amount of office space for the headquarters of the Adminis-9
tration by not less than 30 percent. 10
(b) I
MPLEMENTATION.—The Administrator shall— 11
(1) begin reducing office space under subsection 12
(a) not later than 180 days after the date of enact-13
ment of this Act; and 14
(2) complete the reduction of office space re-15
quired under subsection (a) not later than 2 years 16
after the date of enactment of this Act. 17
SEC. 5. INFORMATION INCLUDED IN BUDGET JUSTIFICA-18
TION MATERIALS PROVIDED TO CONGRESS. 19
The Administrator shall include in the first budget jus-20
tification materials of the Administration submitted after 21
the date of enactment of this Act, and the budget justifica-22
tion materials of the Administration for each fiscal year 23
thereafter— 24
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(1) the number of headquarters employees of the 1
Administration; 2
(2) the number of employees of the Administra-3
tion assigned to a permanent duty station in— 4
(A) a field office of the Administration; 5
(B) a district office of the Administration; 6
or 7
(C) a regional office of the Administration; 8
(3) the number of employees of the Administra-9
tion who telework on a full-time basis; and 10
(4) the number of employees of the Administra-11
tion who are a qualified individual who receives an 12
accommodation to telework on a full-time basis as a 13
reasonable accommodation under title I of the Ameri-14
cans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12111 15
et seq.). 16
SEC. 6. SEVERABILITY. 17
If any provision of this Act or the application of such 18
provision to any person or circumstance is held to be uncon-19
stitutional, the remainder of this Act and the application 20
of the provision to any other person or circumstance shall 21
not be affected thereby. 22
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SEC. 7. SUPERSESSION. 1
This Act shall supersede any other provision of law 2
and any provision of a collective bargaining agreement or 3
master labor agreement. 4
SEC. 8. NO PRIVATE CAUSE OF ACTION. 5
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to establish a 6
private cause of action, equitable or otherwise, to challenge 7
any selection, change, or decision made, or action taken, 8
under this Act. 9
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CONGRESS
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S
ESSION
S. 298 A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Small Business
Administration to relocate 30 percent of the em-
ployees assigned to headquarters to duty stations
outside the Washington metropolitan area, and
for other purposes.
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4, 2025
Reported with an amendment
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