Federal Workforce Civics Competency and Accountability Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7102 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7102

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to require Federal civilian 
     career employees to pass a citizenship test as a condition of 
                  employment, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2026

    Mr. Hamadeh of Arizona 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 Federal civilian 
     career employees to pass a citizenship test as a condition of 
                  employment, 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 ``Federal Workforce Civics Competency 
and Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING FEDERAL CIVILIAN CAREER EMPLOYEES TO PASS CITIZENSHIP 
              TEST AS CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT.

    Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section (and conforming 
the table of contents at the beginning of such chapter accordingly):
``Sec. 3330g. Career employees; citizenship test requirement
    ``(a) Appointment.--An individual who fails to pass the citizenship 
test shall be ineligible for appointment--
            ``(1) to a position in the competitive service; or
            ``(2) as a career appointee.
    ``(b) Current Employees.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
the enactment of the Federal Workforce Civics Competency and 
Accountability Act, as a condition of continued employment, each 
individual who is a career employee on such date of enactment shall 
take the citizenship test.
    ``(c) Annual Testing.--
            ``(1) In general.--As a condition of continued employment, 
        each career employee shall take the citizenship test annually.
            ``(2) Re-test.--If a career employees receives a failing 
        grade on any annual test under paragraph (1), such career 
        employee shall take a citizenship test consisting of all 
        questions on such test.
            ``(3) Discipline.--A career employee may be subject to 
        disciplinary action, up to and including removal, for failing 
        to pass the full citizenship test under paragraph (2).
    ``(d) Format.--The citizenship test administered pursuant to--
            ``(1) subsection (a), (b), or (c)(2) shall consist of all 
        questions on such test; and
            ``(2) subsection (c)(1) shall consist of 20 questions, 
        randomly selected, from the full citizenship test.
    ``(e) Passing Grade.--An individual shall be deemed to have passed 
the citizenship test administered pursuant to--
            ``(1) subsection (a), (b), or (c)(2) if such individual 
        answers at least 90 percent of the questions on the test 
        correctly; and
            ``(2) subsection (c)(1) if such employee answers 15 out of 
        20 questions on such test correctly.
    ``(f) Administration.--
            ``(1) OPM.--The Office of Personnel Management, in 
        consultation with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
        Services, shall administer the citizenship test under this 
        section, in such form as the Office considers appropriate.
            ``(2) System.--The Office shall establish and maintain a 
        website and other necessary electronic systems to maintain 
        records and other necessary information regarding the 
        citizenship test.
            ``(3) Study materials.--The Office, in consultation with 
        the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, shall provide 
        career employees and applicants for employment access to 
        official study materials and online training resources for 
        purposes of taking the citizenship test under this section.
            ``(4) Report.--The Office shall submit an annual report to 
        Congress detailing agency compliance rates, test results, and 
        any disciplinary actions taken under this section.
    ``(g) Definitions.--In this section--
            ``(1) the term `career appointee' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 3132(a) of this title;
            ``(2) the term `career employee'--
                    ``(A) means--
                            ``(i) an employee occupying a position in 
                        the competitive service; and
                            ``(ii) any career appointee; and
                    ``(B) does not include any civil service position 
                that is excepted from the competitive service because 
                of its confidential or policy-making character; and
            ``(3) the term `citizenship test' means the test 
        administered for purposes of determining eligibility for 
        naturalization of an alien in accordance with section 312(a)(2) 
        of the Immigration and Nationality Act.''.
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