Saving NSF’s Workforce Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2208 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2208

 To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Science 
                  Foundation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2025

  Ms. Lofgren (for herself and Ms. Stevens) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
                               Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
 To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Science 
                  Foundation, 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 NSF's Workforce Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN FORCE MORATORIUM AT NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION.

    (a) In General.--Until on or after the date that full-year 
appropriations for the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 2026 
have been enacted into law, the Foundation may not--
            (1) initiate or implement any reduction in force; or
            (2) conduct an involuntary separation of employee in the 
        competitive service or the excepted service, any career 
        employee in the excepted service, or any career appointee in 
        the Senior Executive Service of the Foundation 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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