Non-Essential Workers Transparency Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5908 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5908

 To require Executive agencies to submit reports to Congress regarding 
employees who are furloughed during any period during which there is a 
            lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 4, 2025

Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida (for himself, Mr. Webster of Florida, Ms. 
   Stefanik, Mr. Cline, Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. Fallon) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require Executive agencies to submit reports to Congress regarding 
employees who are furloughed during any period during which there is a 
            lapse in appropriations, 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 ``Non-Essential Workers Transparency 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means, with respect to 
        an Executive agency--
                    (A) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
                    (B) the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                Reform of the House of Representatives; and
                    (C) any other committee of Congress with 
                jurisdiction with respect to the Executive agency.
            (2) Covered employee.--The term ``covered employee'' means 
        an employee of an Executive agency who is furloughed (as 
        defined in section 7511(a) of title 5, United States Code) 
        during a covered period with respect to that Executive agency.
            (3) Covered period.--The term ``covered period'' means, 
        with respect to an Executive agency, a period beginning on the 
        date which a lapse in appropriations with respect to such 
        Executive agency begins and ending on the date on which such 
        lapse in appropriation ends.
            (4) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given the term in section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
    (b) Requirements.--Not later than 30 days after the date on which a 
covered period with respect to an Executive agency ends, the Under 
Secretary (or the equivalent) of that Executive agency shall 
electronically submit to the appropriate congressional committees with 
respect to that Executive agency a report that contains--
            (1) the total number of employees (including contract 
        employees) employed by the Executive agency, as of the day 
        before the day on which that covered period began;
            (2) the total amount expended by the Executive agency on 
        salaries of employees during the fiscal year preceding the 
        fiscal year in which that covered period began;
            (3) the total number of employees of the Executive agency 
        who were covered employees during that covered period;
            (4) the sum obtained by adding the annual rate of basic pay 
        of each employee described in paragraph (3);
            (5) the total number of employees of the Executive agency 
        who were not covered employees during that covered period; and
            (6) the sum obtained by adding the annual rate of basic pay 
        of each employee described in paragraph (5).
    (c) Procedures.--
            (1) Classification.--Each Executive agency submitting a 
        report under subsection (b), or an update to such a report, 
        shall submit that report or update in unclassified form, but 
        that report or update may include a classified annex.
            (2) Publication.--Not later than 30 days after the date on 
        which an appropriate congressional committee receives a report 
        submitted under subsection (b), that appropriate congressional 
        committee shall publish the report on the website of the 
        appropriate congressional committee.
    (d) Economic Effect Report.--Not later than 30 days after the date 
on which a covered period ends, the Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office shall submit to Congress and make publicly available on a 
website of the Congressional Budget Office a report on the effects on 
the economy of the United States of the lapse in appropriations 
occurring during such covered period.
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