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Paycheck Protection Act

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that agencies may not deduct labor organization dues from the pay of Federal employees, and for other purposes.

Introduced May 5, 2025

Latest action (May 5, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Referred to
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Labor & Wages
Legislative subjects (3)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel managementLabor-management relationsU.S. Postal Service

Summary

This bill amends federal law to prohibit Federal agencies and the Postal Service from deducting labor organization dues, fees, or political contributions from employee paychecks. The bill modifies existing law that currently allows agencies to make such deductions from federal employee pay. Under this bill, Federal agencies and the Postal Service would no longer be permitted to automatically deduct union dues or related fees from employee compensation.

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 (2)
  1. May 5, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
  2. May 5, 2025 Introduced in Senate

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HR 7006 — Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 1560 — Postal Supervisors and Managers Fairness Act of 2025 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 1559 — Postal Employee Appeal Rights Amendment Act of 2025 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 5166 — Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 2174 — Paycheck Protection Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 6843 — Establishing the Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration Act of 2025 (shares 2 subjects)
  • HR 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 2 subjects)
  • S 1071 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (shares 2 subjects)

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.

  • HR 2174 — Paycheck Protection Act · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 91%
  • S 1115 — Paycheck Fairness Act · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • S 511 — Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallets Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • S 135 — Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 16, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • HR 4551 — Employee Paycheck and Small Business Protection Act · Introduced Jul 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 7894 — Paycheck Protection Program Small Business Enhancement Act · Introduced Jul 31, 2020 · Cong. 116 69%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 5, 2025

Mr. Sheehy (for himself, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Tuberville) 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 provide that agencies may not deduct labor organization dues from the pay of 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 “Paycheck Protection Act”.

SEC. 2. LABOR ORGANIZATION DUES NOT DEDUCTIBLE FROM PAY.

(a) Federal Agencies.—

(1) In general.—Section 7115 of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 7115. Labor organization dues not deductible from pay “An agency may not deduct any amount from the pay of an employee for labor organization dues, fees, or political contributions.”.

(2) Clerical amendment.—The table of sections for subchapter II of chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 7115 and inserting the following:

“7115. Labor organization dues not deductible from pay.”.

(b) Postal Service.—

(1) In general.—Section 1205 of title 39, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 1205. Labor organization dues not deductible from pay “The Postal Service may not deduct any amount from the pay of an employee for labor organization dues, fees, or political contributions.”.

(2) Clerical amendment.—The table of sections for chapter 12 of title 39, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 1205 and inserting the following:

“1205. Labor organization dues not deductible from pay.”. <all>

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