Saving the Department of Energy's Workforce Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2595 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2595

   To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Department of 
                    Energy, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 31, 2025

 Mr. Heinrich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the Department of 
                    Energy, 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 ``Saving the Department of Energy's 
Workforce Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN FORCE MORATORIUM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

    (a) In General.--Until on or after the date that full-year 
appropriations for the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2026 have 
been enacted into law, the Secretary of Energy may not--
            (1) initiate or implement any reduction in force at the 
        Department of Energy; or
            (2) conduct an involuntary separation of any employee in 
        the competitive service, any career employee in the excepted 
        service, or any career appointee in the Senior Executive 
        Service of the Department of Energy except for cause on charges 
        of misconduct, delinquency, or performance.
    (b) Application.--For the purposes of carrying out subsection (a)--
            (1) the terms ``competitive service'', ``excepted 
        service'', and ``career appointee'' have the meanings given 
        those terms in sections 2102, 2103, and 3132(a), respectively, 
        of title 5, United States Code; and
            (2) such subsection shall be in addition to any other 
        authority with respect to adverse personnel actions, including 
        chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code.
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