119-hr242

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 242 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 242

 To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, and for other 
 purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 9, 2025

 Mr. Sessions introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

_______________________________________________________________________

 A BILL

 To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, 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 ``Manager Attitudes and Notions 
According to Government Employee Responses Act'' or the ``MANAGER 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE MANAGER SURVEYS.

    (a) In General.--

Section 1128 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108-136; 5 U.S.C. 7101 note) is 
amended--

    (1) by redesignating subsections

    (b) ,
            (c) , and
            (d) as 
 subsections
            (c) ,
            (d) , and

    (e) , respectively;

    (2) by inserting after subsection

    (a) the following:
 ``

    (b) Managers.--
 ``

    (1) In general.--Each agency shall conduct an annual 
 survey of its managers that shall, in addition to the topics 
 covered by the survey under subsection

    (a) , include the 
 following questions:
 ``
        (A) I have confidence my agency leadership will 
 support me if I try to discipline an employee.
 ``
        (B) I have confidence in the current system to 
 discipline employees.
 ``
            (C) I feel supported as a manager.
 ``
            (D) I have adequate training regarding how to 
 discipline employees.
 ``
        (E) I have adequate time to observe new employees 
 and attempt to correct deficiencies before their 
 probationary period expires.
 ``
        (F) I have opted not to attempt to discipline an 
 employee over the past year because I have no 
 confidence in the system.
 ``
        (G) My input is sought regarding labor 
 negotiations that will impact my work unit.
 ``
        (H) I would recommend that a colleague in my 
 agency become a manager if given the option to do so.
 ``
            (I) The inability to discipline poor performers 
 or otherwise bad employees hurts the morale of my work 
 unit.
 ``
        (J) Good employees in my work unit have left 
 because of the inability to discipline problematic 
 employees.
 ``

    (2) Response options.--Each survey under paragraph

    (1) shall include an option to provide narrative responses to each 
 question required under such paragraph, in addition to any 
 other quantitative or qualitative response options.'';

    (3) in subsections
            (c) and
            (d) , as redesignated by 
 paragraph

    (1) of this subsection, by striking ``subsection

    (a) '' each place it appears and inserting ``subsection

    (a) or

    (b) ''; and

    (4) by amending subsection

    (e) , as so redesignated, to read 
 as follows:
 ``

    (e) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section--
 ``

    (1) the term `agency' means an Executive agency (as that 
 term is defined in 

section 105 of title 5, United States Code); 
 and
 ``

    (2) the term `Federal manager' means a Federal employee 
 who--
 ``
        (A) has obtained the grade of GS-13 of the 
 General Schedule or higher; and
 ``
        (B) is a supervisor or management official (as 
 those terms are defined in 

section 7103 of such title 
 5).''.

    (b) Requirement To Update Surveys.--Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Office of Personnel 
Management shall update the regulations required under subsection
            (c) of such 

section 1128, as so redesignated, in order to implement the 
amendments made by this Act.
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