119-hr1511

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1511 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1511

 To direct executive branch agencies to conduct a review of redundant 
 positions, to limit civil service hiring, to require agency plans for 
 reductions in force or reorganization, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 21, 2025

Ms. Van Duyne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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 A BILL

 To direct executive branch agencies to conduct a review of redundant 
 positions, to limit civil service hiring, to require agency plans for 
 reductions in force or reorganization, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Reducing Expensive Departments & 
Unnecessary Civil Employees Act'' or the ``REDUCE Act''.

SEC. 2. REVIEW OF REDUNDANT AGENCY ACTIVITIES AND POSITIONS; LIMITATION 
 ON HIRING; AGENCY PLANS FOR RIF OR REORGANIZATION.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the head of each agency of the executive branch 
of the Federal Government shall review each position within such agency 
and submit a report to Congress on which such positions are redundant 
and unnecessary.

    (b) Hiring Limitation.--

    (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
 law, the head of each such agency may appoint no more than 1 
 employee for every 4 employees of the agency retiring, 
 transferring, or otherwise separating from the agency after the 
 date of the enactment of this Act.

    (2) Application.--The limitation in paragraph

    (1) shall 
 apply until the date that the total number of employees at an 
 executive branch agency is equal to or less than 80 percent of 
 the total number of such employees at such agency on the date 
 of the enactment of this Act.
            (c) RIF or Reorganization Plan.--The head of each such agency shall 
determine which agency components should be eliminated or combined with 
another component, and establish a plan to so eliminate or combine (as 
the case may be) such components under a reduction in force or through 
a reorganization.
            (d) Exception.--This section shall not apply to any position or 
agency component that is critical to national security, public safety, 
law enforcement, or immigration enforcement, as determined by the head 
of each executive branch agency.
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