Saving DOE’s Workforce Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2207 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2207

   To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Department of 
                    Energy, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2025

 Ms. Lofgren (for herself and Ms. Ross) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Department of 
                    Energy, 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 DOE's Workforce Act''.

SEC. 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.
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