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REHIRE Act

To provide hiring preference to certain career Federal employees involuntarily removed from the civil service, and for other purposes.

Introduced Apr 30, 2025

Latest action (Apr 30, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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

Summary
  • Provides hiring preference to career federal employees who were involuntarily removed from the civil service between January 1, 2025 and January 1, 2027.
  • Grants affected employees 5 additional points above their earned rating when applying for competitive civil service positions.
  • Excludes from this preference employees removed from political positions, those removed for misconduct or delinquency, and those whose most recent performance review was unacceptable or less than fully successful.
  • Expires 5 years after the bill's enactment.

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)
24 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Donald S. Beyer’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $11,950
  • AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP $8,500
  • BURKE & HERBERT BANK $6,600
  • WESTON FAMILY FOUNDATION $6,600
  • IRSFELD & ASSOCIATES LLC $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Donald S. Beyer → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Apr 30, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  2. Apr 30, 2025 Introduced in House

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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 1633 — Workforce Reentry Act · Introduced Feb 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 5599 — To prohibit the removal of Federal employees during any lapse in discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes. · Introduced Sep 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%
  • HR 236 — Federal Employee Return to Work Act · Introduced Jan 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%
  • HR 492 — Saving the Civil Service Act · Introduced Sep 16, 2025 · Cong. 119 62%
  • HR 2906 — SERVICE Act · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 59%
  • S 27 — Federal Employee Return to Work Act · Introduced Jan 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 59%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Apr 30, 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 30, 2025

Mr. Beyer (for himself, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Subramanyam, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Elfreth, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Norton, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, and Ms. Pingree) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To provide hiring preference to certain career Federal employees involuntarily removed from the civil service, 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 “Restoring Employment and Hiring Incentives for Removed Employees Act” or the “REHIRE Act”.

SEC. 2. HIRING PREFERENCE FOR CERTAIN CAREER FEDERAL EMPLOYEES INVOLUNTARILY REMOVED.

(a) In General.—Any Federal employee involuntarily removed from the civil service during the period beginning on January 1, 2025, and ending on January 1, 2027, shall—

(1) be deemed to be a preference eligible for purposes of appointments to positions in the competitive service; and

(2) shall be entitled to 5 additional points above their earned rating for purposes of section 3309 of title 5, United States Code.

(b) Application.—The authority under subsection (a) shall—

(1) not apply to—

(A) any individual removed from a political position;

(B) any individual involuntarily separated on clearly documented charges of misconduct or delinquency; or

(C) any individual involuntarily separated and whose most recent performance review prior to such separation was unacceptable or less than fully successful, provided that such review is clearly documented; and

(2) expire on the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this section.

(c) Definitions.—In this section—

(1) the term “civil service” has the meaning given that term in section 2101 of title 5, United States Code;

(2) the term “competitive service” has the meaning given that term in section 2102 of such title;

(3) the term “political position” means—

(A) a position described under sections 5312 through 5316 of such title (relating to the Executive Schedule);

(B) a noncareer appointee (as that term is defined in section 3132(a) of such title); or

(C) a position in the executive branch of the Government of a confidential or policy-determining character under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations; and

(4) the term “preference eligible” has the meaning given that term in section 2108(3) of title 5, United States Code. <all>

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