Saving NIST’s Workforce Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2209 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2209

To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Institute 
          of Standards and Technology, 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 Institute 
          of Standards and Technology, 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 NIST's Workforce Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN FORCE MORATORIUM AT NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
              STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY.

    (a) In General.--Until on or after the date that full-year 
appropriations for the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
for fiscal year 2026 have been enacted into law, the Institute may 
not--
            (1) initiate or implement any reduction in force; or
            (2) conduct an involuntary separation of any 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 Institute 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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