119-HR2207

Saving DOE’s Workforce Act

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119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2207

1. Short title
2. Reduction in force moratorium at Department of Energy

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the "Saving DOE’s Workforce Act".


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.