Bill Details
HR.977 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-05 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced Date
2025-02-05
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
Committees
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Cosponsors
11
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This bill would let certain federal workers who are married to members of the armed forces keep working from home or through telework, instead of being required to return to full-time in-person work. It applies to executive branch employees who were already allowed to telework or work remotely before January 20, 2025. The bill is meant to help military families by making it easier for spouses to keep their jobs while their family moves or faces other military-related changes. It also asks the Government Accountability Office to study how many workers would be affected and what it would cost the government if they had to work in person.
- It would exempt covered military spouses from any rule that forces them back to full-time in-person work.
- It only applies to federal executive branch employees who were already eligible for telework or remote work before January 20, 2025.
- The Government Accountability Office would have to send Congress a report within 180 days after the law takes effect.
- The report would include how many employees are covered, how far they would have to commute, and the expected costs of requiring in-person work, including vacancy and lost productivity costs.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 977 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 977
To permit Federal employees who are spouses of members of the armed
forces to engage in telework and remote work, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 5, 2025
Mr. Vindman (for himself and Mr. Wittman) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform
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A BILL
To permit Federal employees who are spouses of members of the armed
forces to engage in telework and remote work, 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 ``Support Military Families Act''.
SEC. 2. PERMITTING TELEWORK OR REMOTE WORK FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO
ARE MILITARY SPOUSES.
(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or
regulation, any employee in the executive branch of the Federal
Government who is a spouse of a member of the armed forces--
(1) shall be exempt from any requirement to return to full-
time in-person work; and
(2) may engage in telework or remote work.
(b) Application.--Subsection (a) shall only apply to such a spouse
who, prior to January 20, 2025, was eligible to telework or remote
work.
(c) GAO Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this section, the Comptroller General of the United States
shall submit a report, to the Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and publish such
report on the public website of the Government Accountability Office.
Such report shall include--
(1) the total number of employees described in subsection
(a);
(2) the average distance (in miles) such employees would
commute if required to report to work in-person at their agency
duty station; and
(3) the estimated economic impact of requiring such
employees to perform in-person work, including the estimated
costs of filling positions becoming vacant and lost
productivity costs to the Federal Government.
(d) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``armed forces'' and
``civil service'' have the meaning given those terms in section 2101 of
title 5, United States Code.
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