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Saving NSF’s Workforce Act

To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Science Foundation, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jul 31, 2025

Latest action (Jul 31, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Referred to
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Policy area
Science, Technology, Communications
Issues
Labor & WagesTechnology & Privacy

Summary
  • Institutes a moratorium on reduction in force (layoff) actions at the National Science Foundation until full-year appropriations for NSF for fiscal year 2026 are enacted into law.
  • Prevents NSF from conducting layoffs under specified federal law sections during the moratorium period.
  • Does not restrict NSF's use of other adverse personnel action authorities.

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)
1 cosponsor

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 31, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. · senate
  2. Jul 31, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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 2631 — Saving NIST’s Workforce Act · Introduced Jul 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 86%
  • HR 2208 — Saving NSF’s Workforce Act · Introduced Mar 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 84%
  • S 2632 — Saving NASA’s Workforce Act · Introduced Jul 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • S 2633 — Saving NOAA’s Workforce Act · Introduced Jul 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • HR 3707 — NSF and USDA Interagency Research Act · Introduced Jun 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • S 2597 — Saving the Department of the Interior's Workforce Act · Introduced Jul 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Jul 31, 2025

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Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 31, 2025

Ms. Hirono (for herself and Mr. Van Hollen) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

A BILL

To institute a reduction in force moratorium at the National Science Foundation, 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 “Saving NSF’s Workforce Act”.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN FORCE MORATORIUM AT NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION.

(a) In General.—Until the date that full-year appropriations for the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 2026 have been enacted into law, the National Science Foundation may not conduct any reduction in force pursuant to sections 3501 through 3504 and 3595 of title 5, United States Code.

(b) Application.—For the purposes of carrying out subsection (a), such subsection shall be in addition to any other authority with respect to adverse personnel actions, including chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code. <all>

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