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Saving NSF’s Workforce Act

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Introduced:
Mar 18, 2025
Policy Area:
Science, Technology, Communications

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Mar 18, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

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Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Type: IntroReferral | Source: House floor actions | Code: H11100
Mar 18, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: Intro-H
Mar 18, 2025
Introduced in House
Type: IntroReferral | Source: Library of Congress | Code: 1000
Mar 18, 2025

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Science, Technology, Communications (Policy Area)

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Introduced in House

Mar 18, 2025

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Length: 2,042 characters Version: Introduced in House Version Date: Mar 18, 2025 Last Updated: Nov 14, 2025 6:25 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2208 Introduced in House

(IH) ]

<DOC>

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2208

To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Science
Foundation, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 18, 2025

Ms. Lofgren (for herself and Ms. Stevens) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Science
Foundation, 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.

This Act may be cited as the ``Saving NSF's Workforce Act''.
SEC. 2.

(a) In General.--Until on or after the date that full-year
appropriations for the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 2026
have been enacted into law, the Foundation may not--

(1) initiate or implement any reduction in force; or

(2) conduct an involuntary separation of employee in the
competitive service or the excepted service, any career
employee in the excepted service, or any career appointee in
the Senior Executive Service of the Foundation except for cause
on charges of misconduct, delinquency, or inefficiency.

(b) Application.--For the purposes of carrying out subsection

(a) --

(1) the terms ``competitive service'', ``excepted
service'', and ``career appointee'' have the meanings given
those terms in sections 2102, 2103, and 3132

(a) , respectively,
of title 5, United States Code; and

(2) such subsection shall be in addition to any other
authority with respect to adverse personnel actions, including
chapter 75 of such title 5.
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