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To prohibit the removal of Federal employees during any lapse in discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.

To prohibit the removal of Federal employees during any lapse in discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.

Introduced Sep 26, 2025

Latest action (Sep 26, 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
Economy & TaxesLabor & Wages

Summary

This bill prohibits the removal of federal employees from the civil service during a government shutdown caused by a lapse in discretionary appropriations. If an employee is removed in violation of this prohibition, the employee may elect to be reinstated with back pay once the lapse in appropriations ends. The provision applies to all federal agencies affected by the shutdown.

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)
73 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • CHESAPEAKE REALTY PARTNERS $13,200
  • VENABLE LLP $10,400
  • HIMMELRICH ASSOCIATES, INC. $9,900
  • MILEONE $9,900
  • TRADEPOINT ATLANTIC $9,300

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

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 26, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  2. Sep 26, 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 5676 — Stop Stealing Our Jobs Act · Introduced Oct 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • S 3141 — SAFE Act · Introduced Nov 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 5708 — Federal Employees Civil Relief Act · Introduced Oct 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 5801 — Shutdown Fairness Act · Introduced Oct 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 2532 — To prohibit certain removals of employees of the Department of Health and Human Services and sub-agencies and operating divisions thereof, and for other purposes. · Introduced Apr 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • S 3039 — True Shutdown Fairness Act · Introduced Oct 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 26, 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

September 26, 2025

Mr. Olszewski (for himself, Ms. Pettersen, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Carson, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. Craig, Ms. Elfreth, Ms. Friedman, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Lee of Nevada, Mr. Mfume, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Norton, Ms. Randall, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Walkinshaw, Mr. Whitesides, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Goldman of New York, Mr. Horsford, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. Lieu, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. McIver, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Ruiz, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tlaib, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Kennedy of New York, Ms. Dexter, Ms. Scholten, and Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To prohibit the removal of Federal employees during any lapse in discretionary appropriations, 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. LIMITATION ON REMOVING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law—

(1) during a Government shutdown due to a lapse in discretionary appropriations with respect to a Federal agency, no employee of such agency may be removed from the civil service; and

(2) if any employee is so removed in violation of paragraph

(1), on the date on which such lapse ends such employee may elect to be reinstated with back pay in accordance with section 5596 of title 5, United States Code. <all>

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