Bill Details
HR.1559 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-11-20 - ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Walkinshaw asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1559, a bill originally introduced by Representative Connolly, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
Introduced Date
2025-02-25
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
Committees
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Cosponsors
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- Rep. Garbarino, Andrew R. [R-New York-2]
- Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-Illinois-2]
- Rep. McClain Delaney, April [D-Maryland-6]
- Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-New York-17]
- Rep. Stansbury, Melanie A. [D-New Mexico-1]
- Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-Washington-1]
- Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-Tennessee-9]
- Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-Maine-2]
- Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-New York-3]
- Rep. Crockett, Jasmine [D-Texas-30]
- Rep. Moskowitz, Jared [D-Florida-23]
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-Virginia-7]
- Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-Pennsylvania-5]
- Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-Massachusetts-8]
- Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-Minnesota-5]
- Rep. Mrvan, Frank J. [D-Indiana-1]
- Rep. Magaziner, Seth [D-Rhode Island-2]
- Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-Oregon-4]
- Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-Pennsylvania-3]
- Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-Maine-1]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would give certain U.S. Postal Service employees a new way to challenge some job-related decisions by appealing to the Merit Systems Protection Board, which is a federal agency that hears certain workplace disputes. The change would apply to postal workers who do not have a union representative and who work in supervisory, professional, technical, clerical, administrative, or managerial roles under the Executive and Administrative Schedule. In simple terms, it would expand appeal rights for some postal employees who currently may not have access to this kind of review.
- The bill applies only to certain Postal Service employees, not to all postal workers.
- To qualify, an employee must not be represented by a recognized bargaining representative.
- The covered jobs include supervisory, professional, technical, clerical, administrative, and managerial positions in the Executive and Administrative Schedule.
- The goal is to let these employees bring appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board when they need a formal review of a personnel action.
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Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1559 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1559
To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to
certain employees of the United States Postal Service.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 25, 2025
Mr. Connolly (for himself and Mr. Garbarino) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to
certain employees of the United States Postal Service.
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 ``Postal Employee Appeal Rights
Amendment Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. RIGHT OF APPEAL TO MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD.
Section 1005(a)(4)(A)(ii)(I) of title 39, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:
``(I) is an officer or employee of
the Postal Service who--
``(aa) is not represented
by a bargaining representative
recognized under section 1203;
and
``(bb) is in a supervisory,
professional, technical,
clerical, administrative, or
managerial position covered by
the Executive and
Administrative Schedule; and''.
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