119-hr2880

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2880 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2880

 To provide employment protections for, and reinstatement of, certain 
 probationary Federal career employees, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 10, 2025

 Mr. Olszewski (for himself, Mr. Carson, Mr. Garcia of California, Mr. 
 Hernandez, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Ivey, Mr. Liccardo, Ms. Norton, Ms. Titus, 
Mr. Tonko, Ms. Underwood, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mrs. 
 Dingell, Ms. Elfreth, Mr. Fields, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Jackson of 
 Illinois, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Huffman, 
 Mr. Khanna, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Tran, Mr. 
 Bell, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Stanton, and Mr. 
 Cleaver) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
 Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently 
 determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To provide employment protections for, and reinstatement of, certain 
 probationary Federal career employees, 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. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS AND REINSTATEMENT OF PROBATIONARY 
 CAREER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Due Process Protections.--

    (1) In general.--Any Federal employee who is promoted to a 
 position in the competitive service, a career position in the 
 excepted service, or to a career appointee position in the 
 Senior Executive Service and, after such promotion, is serving 
 under a probationary or trial period shall be deemed to be 
 covered by, and subject to the requirements of suchapter II or 
 subchapter V (as the case may be) of chapter 75 of title 5, 
 United States Code.

    (2) VA employees.--Any Federal employee who is promoted to 
 a position at the Department of Veterans Affairs and, after 
 such promotion, is serving under a probationary or trial period 
 shall be deemed to be covered by, and subject to the 
 requirements of, 

section 714 of title 38, United States Code.

    (b) Reinstatement.--Any individual who was a Federal employee 
serving under a probationary or trial status after a promotion and who 
was removed from the competitive service, a career position in the 
excepted service, or a career appointee position in the Senior 
Executive Service during the period beginning on January 20, 2025, and 
ending on the date of the enactment of this Act shall, at the election 
of the individual, be reinstated to the same position or an equivalent 
position with backpay in accordance with 

section 5596 of title 5, 
United States Code.
            (c) Limitation.--Subsection

    (a) shall not apply to any individual 
promoted to a political position and subsection

    (b) shall not apply to 
any individual removed from a political position.
            (d) === Definitions. ===
-In this section--

    (1) the term ``career appointee'' has the meaning given 
 that term in 

section 3132

    (a) of title 5, United States Code;

    (2) the terms ``civil service'', ``competitive service'', 
 and ``excepted service'' have the meaning given those terms in 
 

section 2101, 2102, and 2103, respectively, of such title; and

    (3) the term ``political position'' means--
        (A) a position described under sections 5312 
 through 5316 of such title 5 (relating to the Executive 
 Schedule);
        (B) a noncareer appointee (as that term is defined 
 in such 

section 3132

    (a) ); or
            (C) a position in the executive branch of the 
 Government of a confidential or 

=== policy ===
determining 
 character under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of 
 title 5, Code of Federal Regulations.
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