Saving NOAA’s Workforce Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2211 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2211

 To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Oceanic 
        and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2025

 Ms. Lofgren (for herself and Mr. Amo) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Oceanic 
        and Atmospheric Administration, 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 NOAA's Workforce Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN FORCE MORATORIUM AT NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 
              ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) In General.--Until on or after the date that full-year 
appropriations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
for fiscal year 2026 have been enacted into law, the Administration 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 Administration 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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