To provide employment protections for, and reinstatement of, certain probationary Federal career employees, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2880 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2880

 To provide employment protections for, and reinstatement of, certain 
     probationary Federal career employees, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2025

 Mr. Olszewski (for himself, Mr. Carson, Mr. Garcia of California, Mr. 
 Hernandez, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Ivey, Mr. Liccardo, Ms. Norton, Ms. Titus, 
Mr. Tonko, Ms. Underwood, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mrs. 
    Dingell, Ms. Elfreth, Mr. Fields, Mr. Horsford, Mr. Jackson of 
 Illinois, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Mr. Huffman, 
  Mr. Khanna, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Tran, Mr. 
 Bell, Mr. McGarvey, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Stanton, and Mr. 
   Cleaver) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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 provide employment protections for, and reinstatement of, certain 
     probationary Federal career employees, 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. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS AND REINSTATEMENT OF PROBATIONARY 
              CAREER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Due Process Protections.--
            (1) In general.--Any Federal employee who is promoted to a 
        position in the competitive service, a career position in the 
        excepted service, or to a career appointee position in the 
        Senior Executive Service and, after such promotion, is serving 
        under a probationary or trial period shall be deemed to be 
        covered by, and subject to the requirements of suchapter II or 
        subchapter V (as the case may be) of chapter 75 of title 5, 
        United States Code.
            (2) VA employees.--Any Federal employee who is promoted to 
        a position at the Department of Veterans Affairs and, after 
        such promotion, is serving under a probationary or trial period 
        shall be deemed to be covered by, and subject to the 
        requirements of, section 714 of title 38, United States Code.
    (b) Reinstatement.--Any individual who was a Federal employee 
serving under a probationary or trial status after a promotion and who 
was removed from the competitive service, a career position in the 
excepted service, or a career appointee position in the Senior 
Executive Service during the period beginning on January 20, 2025, and 
ending on the date of the enactment of this Act shall, at the election 
of the individual, be reinstated to the same position or an equivalent 
position with backpay in accordance with section 5596 of title 5, 
United States Code.
    (c) Limitation.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to any individual 
promoted to a political position and subsection (b) shall not apply to 
any individual removed from a political position.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``career appointee'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 3132(a) of title 5, United States Code;
            (2) the terms ``civil service'', ``competitive service'', 
        and ``excepted service'' have the meaning given those terms in 
        section 2101, 2102, and 2103, respectively, of such title; and
            (3) the term ``political position'' means--
                    (A) a position described under sections 5312 
                through 5316 of such title 5 (relating to the Executive 
                Schedule);
                    (B) a noncareer appointee (as that term is defined 
                in such section 3132(a)); or
                    (C) a position in the executive branch of the 
                Government of a confidential or policy-determining 
                character under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of 
                title 5, Code of Federal Regulations.
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