119-hr2209

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2209 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2209

To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Institute 
 of Standards and Technology, and for other purposes.

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 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

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 A BILL

To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Institute 
 of Standards and Technology, 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 ``Saving NIST's Workforce Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN FORCE MORATORIUM AT NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
 STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY.

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

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

    (2) conduct an involuntary separation of any 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 Institute 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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