Bill Details
HR.1145 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-07 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-02-07
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
Committees
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Cosponsors
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- Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-Maryland-8]
- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-Michigan-12]
- Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-Michigan-3]
- Rep. Cisneros, Gilbert Ray [D-California-31]
- Rep. Brown, Shontel M. [D-Ohio-11]
- Rep. Jackson, Jonathan L. [D-Illinois-1]
- Rep. Titus, Dina [D-Nevada-1]
- Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank" [D-Georgia-4]
- Rep. Carson, André [D-Indiana-7]
- Rep. Landsman, Greg [D-Ohio-1]
- Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-Pennsylvania-12]
- Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-Arizona-3]
- Rep. Balint, Becca [D-Vermont]
- Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-New Jersey-12]
- Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-Arizona-7]
- Rep. Torres, Norma J. [D-California-35]
- Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-California-43]
- Rep. Velázquez, Nydia M. [D-New York-7]
- Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-Illinois-4]
- Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-District of Columbia]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would make the special government employee who is in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency responsible for claims tied to the department’s actions. In plain terms, if the department’s work leads to certain legal problems, the person managing it—not the federal government—could be held liable. The bill says this would apply even if other laws would normally protect the government from being sued. It is aimed at claims connected to the department’s activities, including possible violations of labor rules, privacy laws, security-related laws, spending laws, or other federal laws.
- It shifts responsibility for certain claims away from the federal government and onto the person running the department.
- The rule would apply to claims related to the department’s work inside the Executive Office of the President or any successor office.
- Examples listed in the bill include claims involving labor law, data privacy, national or domestic security, and federal appropriations rules.
- The bill gives the measure a short name and says it applies despite any other law that might normally say otherwise.
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Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1145 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1145
To provide that the special Government employee managing the Department
of Government Efficiency shall be liable for any claims against the
Federal Government related to Department activities, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 7, 2025
Ms. Stansbury (for herself and Mr. Raskin) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To provide that the special Government employee managing the Department
of Government Efficiency shall be liable for any claims against the
Federal Government related to Department activities, 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 ``Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act''.
SEC. 2. PAYMENT OF CLAIMS AGAINST FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RELATED TO
DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY ACTIVITIES.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the special Government
employee (as that term is defined in section 202(a) of title 18, United
States Code) managing or otherwise in charge of the Department of
Government Efficiency (or any successor thereof) within the Executive
Office of the President shall be liable for any claim against the
Federal Government relating to activities of the Department, including
claims brought as a result of violation of Federal labor laws, data
privacy laws, threats to national or domestic security, Federal
appropriations laws, or any other statutes.
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