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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 354
To require Executive agencies to submit to Congress a study of the impacts
of expanded telework and remote work by agency employees during
the COVID–19 pandemic and a plan for the agency’s future use of
telework and remote work, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY3, 2025
Mrs. B
LACKBURN(for herself, Mr. CRAPO, Ms. ERNST, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr.
T
ILLIS, Mr. RICKETTS, and Mr. GRASSLEY) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity and Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To require Executive agencies to submit to Congress a study
of the impacts of expanded telework and remote work
by agency employees during the COVID–19 pandemic
and a plan for the agency’s future use of telework and
remote work, 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. DEFINITIONS. 1
In this Act: 2
(1) A
GENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 3
meaning given the term ‘‘Executive agency’’ in sec-4
tion 105 of title 5, United States Code. 5
(2) D
IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 6
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. 7
(3) L
OCALITY PAY.—The term ‘‘locality pay’’ 8
means locality pay provided for under section 5304 9
or 5304a of title 5, United States Code. 10
(4) T
ELEWORK; TELEWORKING.—The terms 11
‘‘telework’’ and ‘‘teleworking’’— 12
(A) have the meaning given those terms in 13
section 6501 of title 5, United States Code; and 14
(B) include remote work. 15
SEC. 3. REINSTATEMENT OF PRE-PANDEMIC TELEWORK 16
POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EX-17
ECUTIVE AGENCIES. 18
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 19
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency 20
shall reinstate and apply the telework policies, practices, 21
and levels of the agency that were in effect on December 22
31, 2019. 23
(b) P
ROHIBITION.—The head of an agency may not 24
expand any policy, practice, or level described in sub-25
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section (a) until the date on which the head of the agency 1
submits to Congress— 2
(1) an agency plan under section 4(a)(2); and 3
(2) a certification under section 4(a)(3). 4
SEC. 4. STUDY, PLAN, AND CERTIFICATION REGARDING EX-5
ECUTIVE AGENCY TELEWORK POLICIES, 6
PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EXECUTIVE 7
AGENCIES. 8
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 9
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency, 10
in consultation with the Director, shall submit to Con-11
gress— 12
(1) a study on the impacts on the agency and 13
the mission of the agency of expanding telework for 14
employees as a result of the public health emergency 15
relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID– 16
19) pandemic declared under section 319 of the 17
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on Jan-18
uary 31, 2020, including an analysis of— 19
(A) any adverse impacts of that expansion 20
on the performance by the agency of the mis-21
sion of the agency, including the performance of 22
customer service by the agency; 23
(B) any costs to the agency during that ex-24
pansion attributable to— 25
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(i) owning, leasing, or maintaining un-1
derutilized real property; or 2
(ii) paying higher rates of locality pay 3
to teleworking employees as a result of in-4
correctly classifying those employees as 5
teleworkers rather than remote workers; 6
(C) any degree to which the agency failed 7
during that expansion to provide teleworking 8
employees with secure network capacity, com-9
munications tools, necessary and secure access 10
to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 11
records, and equipment sufficient to enable tele-12
working employee to be fully productive; 13
(D) any degree to which that expansion fa-14
cilitated dispersal of the agency workforce 15
around the United States; and 16
(E) any other impacts of that expansion 17
that the head of the agency or the Director con-18
siders appropriate; 19
(2) any agency plan to expand telework policies, 20
practices, or levels beyond the telework policies, 21
practices, and levels of the agency that were in effect 22
on December 31, 2019; and 23
(3) a certification by the Director that the 24
agency plan described in paragraph (2) will— 25
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(A) have a substantial positive effect on— 1
(i) the performance of the mission of 2
the agency, including the performance of 3
customer service; 4
(ii) increasing the level of dispersal of 5
agency personnel throughout the United 6
States; and 7
(iii) the reversal of any adverse im-8
pacts described in paragraph (1)(A); 9
(B) substantially lower the costs of the 10
agency relating to owning, leasing, or maintain-11
ing real property; 12
(C) substantially lower the costs of the 13
agency attributable to paying locality pay to 14
agency personnel working from locations out-15
side the pay locality of their position’s official 16
worksite; and 17
(D) ensure that teleworking employees will 18
be provided with secure network capacity, com-19
munications tools, necessary and secure access 20
to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 21
records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 22
teleworking employee to be fully productive, 23
without substantially increasing the agency’s 24
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overall costs for secure network capacity, com-1
munications tools, and equipment. 2
(b) L
IMITATION.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The head of an agency may 4
not implement an agency plan described in sub-5
section (a)(2) for which the Director does not issue 6
a certification described in subsection (a)(3). 7
(2) S
UBSEQUENT PLANS .—If the head of an 8
agency unsuccessfully submits an agency plan de-9
scribed in subsection (a)(2) to the Director for the 10
certification described in subsection (a)(3), the head 11
of the agency may— 12
(A) submit to the Director subsequent 13
agency plans until the head of the agency re-14
ceives the certification; and 15
(B) submit a subsequent agency plan de-16
scribed in subparagraph (A) that is certified by 17
the Director to Congress. 18
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