Protect our Public Health Workforce Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3136 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3136

To require the reinstatement of recently terminated Centers for Disease 
       Control and Prevention employees, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2025

   Ms. Barragan (for herself, Ms. Matsui, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Norton, Ms. 
 Adams, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, and Mr. Evans of 
Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the reinstatement of recently terminated Centers for Disease 
       Control and Prevention employees, 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 ``Protect our Public Health Workforce 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT AND PAYMENT OF AFFECTED EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--Any Federal employee who was involuntarily removed 
or otherwise dismissed without cause from the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (in this Act referred to as the ``CDC'') during 
the period beginning on January 20, 2025, and ending on the date of the 
enactment of this Act shall, at the election of the individual, be 
reinstated to the same position or an equivalent position with backpay 
in accordance with section 5596 of title 5, United States Code.

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and every three months thereafter, the Director 
of the CDC shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
report on employees of CDC who were removed or otherwise dismissed from 
the agency.
    (b) Contents.--Any report submitted under subsection (a) shall 
include the following:
            (1) The total number of CDC employees removed or otherwise 
        dismissed from the agency during the period covered by the 
        report.
            (2) The title and job description for each such removal or 
        dismissal.
            (3) The reason for each such removal or dismissal.
    (c) Sunset.--The requirement to submit reports under this 
subsection shall terminate on January 20, 2029.
    (d) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
congressional committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and 
        the Committee on Energy and Commerce and of the House of 
        Representatives; and
            (2) the Committee on Homeland Security and Government 
        Affairs and the Committee on Health, Education, and Labor and 
        Pensions of the Senate.
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