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To direct executive branch agencies to conduct a review of redundant positions, to limit civil service hiring, to require agency plans for reductions in force or reorganization, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill requires each executive branch agency to review its positions within 30 days and report to Congress on which positions are redundant and unnecessary. Agencies are limited to hiring one new employee for every four employees who leave, retire, or transfer until the agency's workforce reaches 80 percent of its current size, creating a mandatory net reduction in federal employment. Each agency must also establish a plan to eliminate or consolidate agency components through either reduction in force or reorganization. The bill exempts positions and components critical to national security, public safety, law enforcement, or immigration enforcement from these requirements, as determined by agency heads.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Beth Van Duyne’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $51,100
- INSPERITY $14,800
- AMERICAN AIRLINES $14,473
- BANK OF THE WEST $14,200
- CHARTER BROKERAGE LLC $13,862
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Actions (2)
- Feb 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
- Feb 21, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 21, 2025
Ms. Van Duyne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To direct executive branch agencies to conduct a review of redundant positions, to limit civil service hiring, to require agency plans for reductions in force or reorganization, 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 “Reducing Expensive Departments & Unnecessary Civil Employees Act” or the “REDUCE Act”.
SEC. 2. REVIEW OF REDUNDANT AGENCY ACTIVITIES AND POSITIONS; LIMITATION ON HIRING; AGENCY PLANS FOR RIF OR REORGANIZATION.
(a) In General.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of each agency of the executive branch of the Federal Government shall review each position within such agency and submit a report to Congress on which such positions are redundant and unnecessary.
(b) Hiring Limitation.—
(1) In general.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the head of each such agency may appoint no more than 1 employee for every 4 employees of the agency retiring, transferring, or otherwise separating from the agency after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(2) Application.—The limitation in paragraph (1) shall apply until the date that the total number of employees at an executive branch agency is equal to or less than 80 percent of the total number of such employees at such agency on the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) RIF or Reorganization Plan.—The head of each such agency shall determine which agency components should be eliminated or combined with another component, and establish a plan to so eliminate or combine (as the case may be) such components under a reduction in force or through a reorganization.
(d) Exception.—This section shall not apply to any position or agency component that is critical to national security, public safety, law enforcement, or immigration enforcement, as determined by the head of each executive branch agency. <all>
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