Bill Details
HR.1571 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-25 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced Date
2025-02-25
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
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This bill would cut federal jobs in the executive branch that are considered nonessential during a government shutdown. In simple terms, it would abolish certain civil service positions that are not marked as protected from furlough. Jobs that are already empty would end right away, while jobs that are filled would end later, after the person leaves the position. The bill also says the government could not spend money on the salary or expenses for those jobs once they are ended, and it would limit the creation of new protected positions in the future.
- Any unfilled nonessential civil service job in the executive branch would be abolished as soon as the bill takes effect.
- If a nonessential job is currently filled, it would stay in place until it becomes vacant, then it would be eliminated.
- The government could not use federal funds for the salary or expenses of these abolished positions after the required date.
- The bill would also stop new positions from being labeled as protected from furlough unless they were already treated that way before.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1571 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1571
To eliminate nonessential civil service positions in the executive
branch of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 25, 2025
Mr. Kelly of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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A BILL
To eliminate nonessential civil service positions in the executive
branch of the Federal Government, 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 ``Bureaucratic Labor Adjustment and
Downsizing Effort Act''.
SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF NONESSENTIAL CIVIL SERVICE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
POSITIONS.
(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
(1) on the date provided under subsection (c), any Federal
position described in subsection (b) is abolished; and
(2) no Federal funds may be obligated or expended for the
salary or expenses of any such position on or after such date.
(b) Positions.--A position described in this subsection is any
position in the civil service (as that term is defined in section 2101
of title 5, United States Code) in the executive branch of the Federal
Government that is designated as not excepted from furlough with
respect to any lapse in appropriations occurring before, on, or after
the date of enactment of this Act.
(c) Application.--
(1) Unoccupied and nonessential.--Positions under
subsection (b) that are unoccupied on the date of the enactment
of this Act shall be abolished on such date.
(2) Occupied and nonessential.--Positions under subsection
(b) that are occupied on the date of the enactment of this Act
shall be abolished on the first day after such date when such
position becomes vacant (including a vacancy resulting from
retirement, voluntary separation, or disciplinary action).
(d) Limitation.--On and after the date of the enactment of this
Act, no Federal position--
(1) may be designated as excepted from furlough that was
not designated as excepted from furlough during a lapse in
appropriations occurring before such date; and
(2) established after the date of enactment of this Act may
be designated as excepted from furlough.
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