119-hr1989

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1989 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1989

 To allow Federal employees terminated while serving a probationary or 
 trial period to resume such period upon reinstatement, and for other 
 purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 10, 2025

Ms. Elfreth (for herself, Ms. Adams, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Baumgartner, Mr. 
Beyer, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Bynum, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. 
 Cohen, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fields, 
 Mrs. Foushee, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Hurd of 
Colorado, Mr. Ivey, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Landsman, 
 Mr. Latimer, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. 
 Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Olszewski, Mr. Peters, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. 
 Ramirez, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Salinas, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Soto, Mr. 
 Subramanyam, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tlaib, and Ms. Velazquez) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Oversight and Government Reform

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 A BILL

 To allow Federal employees terminated while serving a probationary or 
 trial period to resume such period upon reinstatement, 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 ``Protect Our Probationary Employees 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RESUMPTION OF PROBATIONARY PERIOD.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
duration of the probationary or trial period for a covered appointment 
of a covered probationary employee to become final shall be equal to 
the difference between--

    (1) the duration of such probationary or trial period that, 
 but for this Act, would apply to such covered appointment; and

    (2) the duration of the probationary or trial period that 
 such covered probationary employee served in the previous 
 Federal position of such covered probationary employee, to the 
 extent that such duration does not exceed the duration 
 described in paragraph

    (1) .

    (b) Sunset.--This Act shall terminate on January 20, 2029.
            (c) === Definitions. ===
-In this Act--

    (1) Covered appointment.--The term ``covered appointment'' 
 means an appointment of a covered probationary employee to a 
 position in the former employing agency of such covered 
 probationary employee that, to the extent practicable, is the 
 same as the previous Federal position of such covered 
 probationary employee.

    (2) Covered probationary employee.--The term ``covered 
 probationary employee'' means an individual who--
        (A) is, or was, involuntarily separated from 
 Government service during the period beginning on 
 January 20, 2025, and ending on the date specified in 
 subsection

    (b) ; and
        (B) immediately prior to such separation, held a 
 position in an Executive agency and serving a 
 probationary or trial period under an initial 
 appointment.

    (3) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
 the meaning given such term in 

section 105 of title 5, United 
 States Code.

    (4) Former employing agency.--With respect to a covered 
 probationary employee, the term ``former employing agency'' 
 means the Executive agency from which the separation of such 
 individual made such individual a covered probationary 
 employee.

    (5) Previous federal position.--The term ``previous Federal 
 position'' means the position in the Federal Government held by 
 the covered probationary employee immediately before becoming a 
 covered probationary employee.
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