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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.
Summary
This bill eliminates "official time" for federal employees, which currently allows certain employees to spend portions of their work hours on labor union activities while being paid by the government. Under the bill, any activities performed by federal employees relating to labor organization business must be conducted during non-duty time, meaning employees would need to perform union-related work on their own time rather than during paid work hours. The bill amends section 7131 of federal law to implement this change. This would affect federal employees who serve in union representative roles and previously had official time allocated for union business.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] (R-UT)
1 cosponsor
- Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN] (R-TN)
Actions (2)
- Apr 7, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
- Apr 7, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 7, 2025
Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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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