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Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendment Act of 2025

To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to certain employees of the United States Postal Service.

Introduced Feb 25, 2025

Latest action (Nov 20, 2025) ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Walkinshaw asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1559, a bill originally introduced by Representative Connolly, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Labor & Wages
Legislative subjects (6)
Administrative remediesGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel managementLabor-management relationsMerit Systems Protection BoardPostal serviceU.S. Postal Service

Summary

This bill amends federal law to extend appeal rights to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) for certain United States Postal Service employees. The change clarifies that non-union Postal Service employees in supervisory, professional, technical, clerical, administrative, or managerial positions covered by the Executive and Administrative Schedule have the right to appeal employment decisions to the MSPB. The amendment modifies the definition of eligible Postal Service employees by specifying that they must not be represented by a bargaining representative recognized under Postal Service labor law. This appears to provide administrative appeal protections for management and professional staff at the Postal Service who are not covered by collective bargaining agreements.

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Sponsor (1)
21 cosponsors

Actions (3)
  1. Nov 20, 2025 ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Walkinshaw asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1559, a bill originally introduced by Representative Connolly, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection. · house
  2. Feb 25, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  3. Feb 25, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 7006 — Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 6 subjects)
  • HR 5166 — Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 1560 — Postal Supervisors and Managers Fairness Act of 2025 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 4465 — To amend chapters 4, 10, and 131 of title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep those chapters current and to correct related technical errors. (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • SRES 337 — A resolution recognizing the 250th anniversary of the postal service of the United States. (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 5304 — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • S 1597 — Paycheck Protection Act (shares 3 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 1560 — Postal Supervisors and Managers Fairness Act of 2025 · Introduced Nov 20, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 2103 — Protect Postal Performance Act · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 687 — MERIT Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 1249 — INFORM Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 12, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 1551 — Protect and Serve Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%
  • HR 2807 — Postal Service Transparency and Review Act · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 25, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 25, 2025

Mr. Connolly (for himself and Mr. Garbarino) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To extend the right of appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board to certain employees of the United States Postal Service.

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 “Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendment Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. RIGHT OF APPEAL TO MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD.

Section 1005(a)(4)(A)(ii)(I) of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

“(I) is an officer or employee of the Postal Service who— “(aa) is not represented by a bargaining representative recognized under section 1203; and “(bb) is in a supervisory, professional, technical, clerical, administrative, or managerial position covered by the Executive and Administrative Schedule; and”. <all>

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