SERVICE Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2906 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2906

    To limit workforce reduction at Federal agencies, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2025

Ms. Williams of Georgia (for herself, Mr. Raskin, Mrs. McClain Delaney, 
  Ms. McClellan, Ms. Norton, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Ms. 
 Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Ivey, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Pettersen, Ms. Titus, 
    Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Tlaib, and Mrs. McIver) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
    To limit workforce reduction at Federal agencies, 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 ``Stopping to Efficiently Review 
Varying Impacts of Cuts to Employment Act'' or the ``SERVICE Act''.

SEC. 2. GAO REVIEW OF FEDERAL WORKFORCE REDUCTIONS.

    (a) In General.--An agency (as that term is described in paragraph 
(1) or (2) of section 901(b) of title 31, United States Code) may not 
remove or otherwise reduce the total number of employees at such agency 
in an amount greater than 5 percent of the total amount of employees at 
such agency as of the first day of the fiscal year during which such 
action would take place until the date that is 210 days after the date 
that the agency submits, to the Comptroller General and to the 
Congress, a report containing a thorough analysis of the expected 
effects of such action. Each such report shall include the following 
analysis:
            (1) Anticipated financial impacts of the action, including 
        an estimate of the net increase or decrease in costs associated 
        with the action. Such estimate shall include--
                    (A) pay and benefits of the employees identified 
                for possible termination;
                    (B) administrative costs to implement the action; 
                and
                    (C) if applicable, contracting costs to replace 
                functions performed by employees to be removed.
            (2) Anticipated mission-related impacts of the action, to 
        include--
                    (A) a description of agency job functions, offices, 
                and services that would be impacted by the action, 
                including detailed information about any office whose 
                number of employees would be reduced by more than 5 
                percent;
                    (B) current performance information on the agency 
                job functions, offices, and services that would be 
                impacted by the action; and
                    (C) an analysis of how the action would affect the 
                performance of the agency job functions and 
                availability of government services, including effects 
                on timeliness and customer experience.
            (3) The methodological or analytical basis for the agency's 
        conclusions about the effects of the action.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the receiving an agency 
report under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall submit a 
report, to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate, and the appropriate committees of 
jurisdiction over the applicable agency, on whether the agency report 
contains all of the required elements, including whether the plan 
includes information to support the requirement in subsection (a)(3), 
and the extent to which the estimated financial and mission-related 
impacts in the report are supported, in the judgment of the Comptroller 
General, by reasonably complete and credible information. The 
Comptroller General shall publish the report submitted to such 
committees on the Government Accountability Office's public website.
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