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No Union Time on the Taxpayer’s Dime Act

To amend title 5, United States Code, to eliminate the use of official time by Federal employees.

Introduced Apr 7, 2025

Latest action (Apr 8, 2025) Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1467-1468)

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Economy & TaxesLabor & Wages

Summary

The bill amends federal employee law to eliminate the use of "official time" by federal employees. Currently, federal employees who are union representatives can use paid work time for union-related activities; the bill would require all activities relating to labor organization business to be performed during non-duty status (the employee's own time, not paid work time). The bill makes a conforming amendment to update the federal employee law section headings.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
5 cosponsors

Actions (3)
  1. Apr 8, 2025 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1467-1468)
  2. Apr 7, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  3. Apr 7, 2025 Introduced in House

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.

  • S 1313 — No Union Time on the Taxpayer's Dime Act · Introduced Apr 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 88%
  • HR 2297 — Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Transparency Act · Introduced Mar 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 4963 — To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow Federal employees to take time off from work, without loss of time or pay, for the purpose of donating blood. · Introduced Aug 16, 2004 · Cong. 108 70%
  • S 1170 — Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Transparency Act · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 2174 — Paycheck Protection Act · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 3653 — ON TIME Act · Introduced May 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Apr 7, 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

April 7, 2025

Mr. Cline introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To amend title 5, United States Code, to eliminate the use of official time by Federal employees.

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 “No Union Time on the Taxpayer’s Dime Act”.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF OFFICIAL TIME.

(a) In General.—Section 7131 of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 7131. Elimination of official time “Any activities performed by an employee relating to the business of a labor organization shall be performed during the time the employee is in a non-duty status.”.

(b) Clerical Amendment.—The table of sections for subchapter IV of chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 7131 and inserting the following:

“7131. Elimination of official time.”. <all>

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