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Jul 31, 2025
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Jul 31, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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Jul 31, 2025
Introduced in Senate
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Jul 31, 2025
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Version: Introduced in Senate
Version Date: Jul 31, 2025
Last Updated: Nov 15, 2025 2:18 AM
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2596 Introduced in Senate
(IS) ]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2596
To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Forest Service, and
for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 31, 2025
Mr. Heinrich (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Forest Service, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2596 Introduced in Senate
(IS) ]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2596
To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Forest Service, and
for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 31, 2025
Mr. Heinrich (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Forest Service, 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 the Forest Service's
Workforce Act''.
SEC. 2.
(a) In General.--Until on or after the date that full-year
appropriations for the Forest Service for fiscal year 2026 have been
enacted into law, the Secretary of Agriculture (acting through the
Chief of the Forest Service) may not--
(1) initiate or implement any reduction in force at the
Forest Service; or
(2) conduct an involuntary separation of any employee in
the competitive service, any career employee in the excepted
service, or any career appointee in the Senior Executive
Service of the Forest Service except for cause on charges of
misconduct, delinquency, or performance.
(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 title 5, United States Code.
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