Bill Details
HR.2207 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-18 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced Date
2025-03-18
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
Committees
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Sponsors
Cosponsors
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- Rep. Ross, Deborah K. [D-North Carolina-2]
- Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-Oregon-1]
- Rep. Stevens, Haley M. [D-Michigan-11]
- Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-Oregon-6]
- Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-North Carolina-4]
- Rep. Amo, Gabe [D-Rhode Island-1]
- Rep. Subramanyam, Suhas [D-Virginia-10]
- Rep. Rivas, Luz M. [D-California-29]
- Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-Delaware]
- Rep. Whitesides, George [D-California-27]
- Rep. Friedman, Laura [D-California-30]
- Rep. McClain Delaney, April [D-Maryland-6]
- Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-New York-20]
- Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-District of Columbia]
- Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-California-2]
- Rep. McClellan, Jennifer L. [D-Virginia-4]
- Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-Texas-7]
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AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would temporarily block the Department of Energy from carrying out layoffs or other forced job cuts until Congress passes full-year funding for the department for fiscal year 2026. The goal is to protect the department’s workforce during the budget process. It would also prevent the department from forcing out certain career employees unless they are removed for misconduct, poor performance, or similar cause.
- The hiring and job protections would stay in place until full-year Department of Energy funding for fiscal year 2026 becomes law.
- The department could not start or carry out a reduction in force, which is a formal process for laying off workers.
- The limit applies to employees in the competitive service, career employees in the excepted service, and career members of the Senior Executive Service.
- The bill still allows other disciplinary actions already permitted under federal law, including actions for misconduct, delinquency, or inefficiency.
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Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2207 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2207
To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Department of
Energy, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 18, 2025
Ms. Lofgren (for herself and Ms. Ross) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Department of
Energy, 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 ``Saving DOE's Workforce Act''.
SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN FORCE MORATORIUM AT DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.
(a) In General.--Until on or after the date that full-year
appropriations for the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2026 have
been enacted into law, the Department may not--
(1) initiate or implement any reduction in force; or
(2) conduct an involuntary separation of any employee in
the competitive service, any career employee in the excepted
service, or any career appointee in the Senior Executive
Service of the Department except for cause on charges of
misconduct, delinquency, or inefficiency.
(b) Application.--For the purposes of carrying out subsection (a)--
(1) the terms ``competitive service'', ``excepted
service'', and ``career appointee'' have the meanings given
those terms in sections 2102, 2103, and 3132(a), respectively,
of title 5, United States Code; and
(2) such subsection shall be in addition to any other
authority with respect to adverse personnel actions, including
chapter 75 of such title 5.
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