Protecting Federal Employee Rights to Personnel Files Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4440 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4440

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to require agencies to provide 
official personnel record files to Federal employees and former Federal 
                   employees, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2025

Ms. Brownley (for herself, Mr. Landsman, Ms. Norton, Ms. Elfreth, Mrs. 
 Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Carson, Ms. Simon, 
    Ms. Budzinski, Ms. Jayapal, Mrs. Sykes, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Chu, Mr. 
  Thanedar, 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 amend title 5, United States Code, to require agencies to provide 
official personnel record files to Federal employees and former Federal 
                   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 ``Protecting Federal Employee Rights 
to Personnel Files Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE OFFICIAL PERSONNEL RECORD FILES TO 
              EMPLOYEES AND FORMER EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 3330f the following:
``Sec. 3330g. Requirement to provide official personnel record files to 
              employees and former employees
    ``(a) Current Employees.--Not later than seven days after the date 
an employee of an agency requests a copy of the employee's official 
personnel record file, the head of such agency shall provide to such 
employee, in electronic and physical form, a copy of such file.
    ``(b) Former Employees.--
            ``(1) In general.--With respect to any employee separating 
        from an agency on or after the date of the enactment of this 
        section, not later than seven days after the date of such 
        separation, the head of such agency shall provide to such 
        employee, in electronic and physical form, a copy of the 
        employee's official personnel record file.
            ``(2) Previously separated employees.--With respect to any 
        individual who separated from an agency before the date of the 
        enactment of this section, not later than 21 days after the 
        date such an individual requests a copy of the employee's 
        official personnel record file from the Director of the Office 
        of Personnel Management, the Director shall provide, in 
        electronic and physical form, a copy of such file to the 
        individual.
    ``(c) Agency Defined.--In this section, the term `agency' has the 
meaning given that term in section 551.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for such subchapter 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3330f the 
following:

``3330g. Requirement to provide official personnel record files to 
                            employees and former employees.''.
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