119-hr977

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 977 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 977

 To permit Federal employees who are spouses of members of the armed 
 forces to engage in telework and remote work, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 5, 2025

 Mr. Vindman (for himself and Mr. Wittman) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
 Reform

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 A BILL

 To permit Federal employees who are spouses of members of the armed 
 forces to engage in telework and remote work, 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 ``Support Military Families Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMITTING TELEWORK OR REMOTE WORK FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO 
 ARE MILITARY SPOUSES.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or 
regulation, any employee in the executive branch of the Federal 
Government who is a spouse of a member of the armed forces--

    (1) shall be exempt from any requirement to return to full-
 time in-person work; and

    (2) may engage in telework or remote work.

    (b) Application.--Subsection

    (a) shall only apply to such a spouse 
who, prior to January 20, 2025, was eligible to telework or remote 
work.
            (c) GAO Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall submit a report, to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and publish such 
report on the public website of the Government Accountability Office. 
Such report shall include--

    (1) the total number of employees described in subsection

    (a) ;

    (2) the average distance (in miles) such employees would 
 commute if required to report to work in-person at their agency 
 duty station; and

    (3) the estimated economic impact of requiring such 
 employees to perform in-person work, including the estimated 
 costs of filling positions becoming vacant and lost 
 productivity costs to the Federal Government.
            (d) === Definitions. ===
-In this section, the terms ``armed forces'' and 
``civil service'' have the meaning given those terms in 

section 2101 of 
title 5, United States Code.
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