Bill Details
S.583 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-13 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-02-13
Policy Area
Government Operations and Politics
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This bill would renew and expand the President’s power to reorganize parts of the federal government. It would update old rules for moving, changing, or cutting government offices and programs so the executive branch can be made smaller and run more efficiently. The bill also gives the President clearer authority to reduce federal jobs, remove rules that are seen as too costly or hard to follow, and eliminate government operations that are not seen as serving the public interest.
- It changes the law so the reorganization authority can be used through December 31, 2026, instead of ending under the older date.
- It broadens the kinds of changes that can be proposed, including cutting unnecessary operations, reducing the number of federal workers, and easing or removing burdensome rules.
- It removes a current limit that says a reorganization plan cannot abolish an enforcement function or a statutory program.
- It also updates the law’s wording throughout, replacing many references to “agencies” with “executive departments” and making related technical changes.
Official Summaries
Reorganizing Government Act of 2025
This bill revives expedited congressional consideration of certain Presidential plans to reorganize the executive branch, expands permissible plan purposes, and changes the prohibitions on plan content.
The bill reauthorizes through 2026 a currently expired authority that requires expedited congressional consideration of certain executive branch reorganization plans submitted by the President.
The bill also expands the purposes for which such reorganization plans may be undertaken, to include
- reducing the number of federal employees;
- eliminating unnecessary and burdensome rules, regulations, and other requirements; and
- eliminating government operations that do not serve the public interest.
The bill removes the following prohibitions on the contents of such plans:
- creating new executive departments or renaming existing executive departments;
- abolishing or transferring executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions; and
- consolidating executive departments or independent regulatory agencies or all of their functions.
The bill also adds a new prohibition on content, specifying that any such plan may not create a net increase in federal workers or expenditures.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 583 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 583
To amend chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, to reauthorize the
executive reorganization authority of the President and to ensure
efficient executive reorganization, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 13, 2025
Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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A BILL
To amend chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, to reauthorize the
executive reorganization authority of the President and to ensure
efficient executive reorganization, 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 ``Reorganizing Government Act of
2025''.
SEC. 2. EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION AMENDMENTS.
Chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in section 901--
(A) in subsection (a)--
(i) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``,
including the elimination of operations
determined to be unnecessary for the execution
of constitutional duties'' before the
semicolon;
(ii) in paragraph (5)--
(I) by striking ``agencies'' in
each place the term appears and
inserting ``executive departments'';
and
(II) by striking ``and'' at the
end;
(iii) in paragraph (6), by striking the
period and inserting ``; and''; and
(iv) by adding at the end the following:
``(7) to reduce the number of federal employees;
``(8) to amend rules, regulations, and other requirements
for the purpose of decreasing the cost and difficulty of
compliance thereof, and to eliminate unnecessary and burdensome
rules, regulations, and other requirements; and
``(9) to eliminate government operations that do not serve
the public interest.''; and
(B) in subsection (d), by striking ``agencies'' and
inserting ``executive departments'';
(2) in section 902, by striking paragraph (1) and inserting
the following:
``(1) `executive department'--
``(A) means--
``(i) any executive department, agency, or
independent establishment of the United States
or any corporation wholly owned by the United
States; and
``(ii) an office or officer of the
executive branch; and
``(B) does not include the Government
Accountability Office or the Comptroller General of the
United States.'';
(3) in section 903(a)--
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
striking ``agencies'' and inserting ``executive
departments'';
(B) by striking ``agency'' in each place the term
appears and inserting ``executive department''; and
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``, except that
no enforcement function or statutory program shall be
abolished by the plan'';
(4) in section 904, by striking ``agency'' in each place
the term appears and inserting ``executive department'';
(5) in section 905--
(A) in subsection (a)--
(i) by striking paragraph (1);
(ii) by redesignating paragraphs (2)
through (7) as paragraphs (1) through (6),
respectively;
(iii) in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), as
so redesignated, by striking ``agency'' in each
place the term appears and inserting
``executive department'';
(iv) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated,
by striking ``new agency'' and inserting ``new
executive department'';
(v) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated,
by striking ``or'';
(vi) in paragraph (6), as so redesignated,
by striking the period and inserting ``; or'';
and
(vii) by adding at the end the following:
``(7) creating a net increase in the number of federal
workers or a net increase in expenditures.''; and
(B) in subsection (b), by striking ``December 31,
1984'' and inserting ``December 31, 2026'';
(6) in section 907, by striking ``agency'' in each place
the term appears and inserting ``executive department'';
(7) in section 908, by striking ``December 31, 1984'' and
inserting ``December 31, 2026''; and
(8) in section 909, by striking ``19 .'' and inserting ``20
.''.
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