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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 1989 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1989

 To allow Federal employees terminated while serving a probationary or 
 trial period to resume such period upon reinstatement, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2025

Ms. Elfreth (for herself, Ms. Adams, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Baumgartner, Mr. 
Beyer, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Bynum, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. 
  Cohen, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fields, 
   Mrs. Foushee, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Hurd of 
Colorado, Mr. Ivey, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Landsman, 
   Mr. Latimer, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. 
 Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Olszewski, Mr. Peters, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. 
    Ramirez, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Salinas, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Soto, Mr. 
  Subramanyam, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tlaib, and Ms. Velazquez) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                    Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow Federal employees terminated while serving a probationary or 
 trial period to resume such 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) In General.--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 such probationary or trial period that, 
        but for this Act, would apply to such covered appointment; and
            (2) the duration of the probationary or trial period that 
        such covered probationary employee served in the previous 
        Federal position of such covered probationary employee, to the 
        extent that such duration does not exceed the duration 
        described in paragraph (1).
    (b) Sunset.--This Act shall terminate on January 20, 2029.
    (c) Definitions.--In this Act--
            (1) Covered appointment.--The term ``covered appointment'' 
        means an appointment of a covered probationary employee to a 
        position in the former employing agency of such covered 
        probationary employee that, to the extent practicable, is the 
        same as the previous Federal position of such 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 specified in 
                subsection (b); and
                    (B) immediately prior to such separation, held a 
                position in an Executive agency and serving a 
                probationary or trial period under an initial 
                appointment.
            (3) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given such 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 separation of such 
        individual made such individual a covered probationary 
        employee.
            (5) Previous federal position.--The term ``previous Federal 
        position'' means the position in the Federal Government held by 
        the covered probationary employee immediately before becoming a 
        covered probationary employee.
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