MANAGER Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 242 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 242

 To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2025

 Mr. Sessions introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, 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 ``Manager Attitudes and Notions 
According to Government Employee Responses Act'' or the ``MANAGER 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE MANAGER SURVEYS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1128 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108-136; 5 U.S.C. 7101 note) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as 
        subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Managers.--
            ``(1) In general.--Each agency shall conduct an annual 
        survey of its managers that shall, in addition to the topics 
        covered by the survey under subsection (a), include the 
        following questions:
                    ``(A) I have confidence my agency leadership will 
                support me if I try to discipline an employee.
                    ``(B) I have confidence in the current system to 
                discipline employees.
                    ``(C) I feel supported as a manager.
                    ``(D) I have adequate training regarding how to 
                discipline employees.
                    ``(E) I have adequate time to observe new employees 
                and attempt to correct deficiencies before their 
                probationary period expires.
                    ``(F) I have opted not to attempt to discipline an 
                employee over the past year because I have no 
                confidence in the system.
                    ``(G) My input is sought regarding labor 
                negotiations that will impact my work unit.
                    ``(H) I would recommend that a colleague in my 
                agency become a manager if given the option to do so.
                    ``(I) The inability to discipline poor performers 
                or otherwise bad employees hurts the morale of my work 
                unit.
                    ``(J) Good employees in my work unit have left 
                because of the inability to discipline problematic 
                employees.
            ``(2) Response options.--Each survey under paragraph (1) 
        shall include an option to provide narrative responses to each 
        question required under such paragraph, in addition to any 
        other quantitative or qualitative response options.'';
            (3) in subsections (c) and (d), as redesignated by 
        paragraph (1) of this subsection, by striking ``subsection 
        (a)'' each place it appears and inserting ``subsection (a) or 
        (b)''; and
            (4) by amending subsection (e), as so redesignated, to read 
        as follows:
    ``(e) Definitions.--In this section--
            ``(1) the term `agency' means an Executive agency (as that 
        term is defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code); 
        and
            ``(2) the term `Federal manager' means a Federal employee 
        who--
                    ``(A) has obtained the grade of GS-13 of the 
                General Schedule or higher; and
                    ``(B) is a supervisor or management official (as 
                those terms are defined in section 7103 of such title 
                5).''.
    (b) Requirement To Update Surveys.--Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Office of Personnel 
Management shall update the regulations required under subsection (c) 
of such section 1128, as so redesignated, in order to implement the 
amendments made by this Act.
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