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Federal Employee Flexibility Act of 1998

To expand authority for programs to encourage Federal employees to commute by means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles to include an option to pay cash for agency-provided parking spaces, and for other purposes.

Introduced Oct 9, 1998

Latest action (Oct 16, 1998) Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Civil Service and Agency Organization Subcommittee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Labor & Wages
Legislative subjects (7)
CommutingFederal employeesFringe benefitsLabor and EmploymentParking facilitiesTransportation and Public WorksTravel costs

Summary

This bill expands federal employee benefit programs to allow agencies to offer employees a taxable cash payment as an alternative to providing them with agency-paid parking spaces. The bill amends federal law to add this cash-in-lieu option to existing programs that encourage federal employees to use transportation methods other than single-occupancy vehicles for their commute. By providing this option, agencies can give employees flexibility to choose between parking benefits and cash payments based on their individual commuting needs. The cash payment option would be subject to federal income taxation.

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)
3 cosponsors

Actions (3)
  1. Oct 16, 1998 Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service. · house
  2. Oct 9, 1998 Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. · house
  3. Oct 9, 1998 Introduced in House

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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 2459 — ABLE Employment Flexibility Act · Introduced Jul 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 4644 — ABLE Employment Flexibility Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 85 — Small Business Flexibility Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • S 27 — Federal Employee Return to Work Act · Introduced Jan 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 3426 — Federal Emergency Procurement Flexibility Act of 2001 · Introduced Apr 9, 2002 · Cong. 107 64%
  • S 1158 — Working Families Flexibility Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

October 9, 1998

Ms. Norton (for herself and Mr. Nadler) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

A BILL

To expand authority for programs to encourage Federal employees to commute by means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles to include an option to pay cash for agency-provided parking spaces, 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. CASH PAYMENT TO FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FOR PARKING SPACES.

(a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “Federal Employee Flexibility Act of 1998”.

(b) In General.—Section 7905(b)(2) of title 5, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in subparagraph (B) by striking “and” after the semicolon;

(2) in subparagraph (C) by striking the period and inserting a semicolon and “and”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

“(D) taxable cash payment to an employee in lieu of an agency-provided parking space.”. <all>

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