119-s918

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 918 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 918

 To allow Federal employees who are involuntarily separated from 
 Government service while serving a probationary or trial period to 
 resume that period upon reinstatement, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 10, 2025

 Mr. Van Hollen (for himself and Mr. Warner) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland 
 Security and Governmental Affairs

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 A BILL

 To allow Federal employees who are involuntarily separated from 
 Government service while serving a probationary or trial period to 
 resume that period upon reinstatement, 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 ``Protect Our Probationary Employees 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RESUMPTION OF PROBATIONARY PERIOD.

    (a) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Covered appointment.--The term ``covered appointment'' 
 means an appointment of a covered probationary employee to a 
 position in the former employing agency of that covered 
 probationary employee that, to the extent practicable, is the 
 same as the previous Federal position occupied by that covered 
 probationary employee.

    (2) Covered probationary employee.--The term ``covered 
 probationary employee'' means an individual who--
        (A) is, or was, involuntarily separated from 
 Government service during the period beginning on 
 January 20, 2025, and ending on the date described in 
 subsection
            (c) ; and
        (B) immediately before the involuntary separation 
 described in subparagraph
        (A) , occupied a position in 
 an Executive agency under which the individual served a 
 probationary or trial period under an initial 
 appointment.

    (3) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
 the meaning given the term in 

section 105 of title 5, United 
 States Code.

    (4) Former employing agency.--With respect to a covered 
 probationary employee, the term ``former employing agency'' 
 means the Executive agency from which the involuntary 
 separation of that individual made that individual a covered 
 probationary employee.

    (5) Previous federal position.--The term ``previous Federal 
 position'' means, with respect to a covered probationary 
 employee, the position in an Executive agency occupied by the 
 covered probationary employee immediately before becoming a 
 covered probationary employee.

    (b) Resumption of Probationary Period.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the duration of the probationary or trial period for 
a covered appointment of a covered probationary employee to become 
final shall be equal to the difference between--

    (1) the duration of that probationary or trial period that, 
 but for this Act, would apply to that covered appointment; and

    (2) the duration of the probationary or trial period that 
 the covered probationary employee served in the previous 
 Federal position of that covered probationary employee, to the 
 extent that such duration does not exceed the duration 
 described in paragraph

    (1) .
            (c) Sunset.--This Act shall terminate on January 20, 2029.
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