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Protecting Federal Employee Rights to Personnel Files Act of 2025

To amend title 5, United States Code, to require agencies to provide official personnel record files to Federal employees and former Federal employees, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jul 16, 2025

Latest action (Jul 16, 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
  • It requires federal agencies to provide copies of official personnel record files to current employees upon request within 7 days, in both electronic and physical form.
  • It requires federal agencies to automatically provide copies of personnel record files to employees separating from the agency within 7 days of separation, in both electronic and physical form.
  • It requires the Office of Personnel Management to provide copies of personnel record files to individuals who separated before the law's enactment within 21 days of their request, in both electronic and physical form.

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)
17 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • Employer not reported $9,600
  • HAAS AUTOMATION $9,100
  • SPARAGNA & SPARAGNA $6,600
  • HACKMAN CAPITAL $6,600
  • UNITED STAFFING ASSOCIATES $6,600

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

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 16, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  2. Jul 16, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jul 16, 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

July 16, 2025

Ms. Brownley (for herself, Mr. Landsman, Ms. Norton, Ms. Elfreth, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Carson, Ms. Simon, Ms. Budzinski, Ms. Jayapal, Mrs. Sykes, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Chu, Mr. Thanedar, and Mrs. McIver) 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 require agencies to provide official personnel record files to Federal employees and former Federal employees, 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 “Protecting Federal Employee Rights to Personnel Files Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE OFFICIAL PERSONNEL RECORD FILES TO EMPLOYEES AND FORMER EMPLOYEES.

(a) In General.—Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 3330f the following: “Sec. 3330g. Requirement to provide official personnel record files to employees and former employees

“(a) Current Employees.—Not later than seven days after the date an employee of an agency requests a copy of the employee’s official personnel record file, the head of such agency shall provide to such employee, in electronic and physical form, a copy of such file.

“(b) Former Employees.—

“(1) In general.—With respect to any employee separating from an agency on or after the date of the enactment of this section, not later than seven days after the date of such separation, the head of such agency shall provide to such employee, in electronic and physical form, a copy of the employee’s official personnel record file.

“(2) Previously separated employees.—With respect to any individual who separated from an agency before the date of the enactment of this section, not later than 21 days after the date such an individual requests a copy of the employee’s official personnel record file from the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Director shall provide, in electronic and physical form, a copy of such file to the individual.

“(c) Agency Defined.—In this section, the term ‘agency’ has the meaning given that term in section 551.”.

(b) Clerical Amendment.—The table of sections for such subchapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3330f the following:

“3330g. Requirement to provide official personnel record files to employees and former employees.”. <all>

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