119th Congress Endorsed Bills
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees: Oversight and Government Reform
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Nikema Williams (GA-05)
Bill Summary: The Ensuring Agency Service Quality Act requires Federal agencies to maintain minimum staffing numbers to comply with Congressional appropriations and requires an agency to justify their inability or refusal to comply with the requirement.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees: Oversight and Government Reform
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Nikema Williams (GA-05)
Bill Summary: The SERVICE Act prevents an agency from reducing its workforce by 5% or greater in a given fiscal year without itself conducting a full impact analysis of those cuts on the agency's ability to carry out its mission, and GAO evaluating the accuracy of that evaluation.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees: Oversight and Government Reform
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Gerald Connolly (VA-11)
Bill Summary: The Saving the Civil Service Act would prevent any position in the federal competitive service from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress; installs a cap on the number of conversions to the frozen excepted service schedule; and requires that any employee who is converted provide consent for that conversion.
Bill Status: Introduced | Date Last Action Taken:
Committees: Oversight and Government Reform
Labor Caucus Lead: Rep. Jared Golden (ME-02)
Bill Summary: The Protect America’s Workforce Act reverses Trump EO stripping collective bargaining rights from federal employees across multiple Federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense, State, Veterans Affairs, Justice, and Energy, as well as certain employees in the Departments of Homeland Security, Treasury, Health and Human Services, Interior, and Agriculture.