Question 1

What does HR492 do?

Accepted Answer

The Saving the Civil Service Act represents a legislative effort to preserve the traditional structure of federal civil service employment by prohibiting the creation of Schedule F within the excepted service and imposing strict limitations on the transfer of positions between the competitive and excepted services. The bill responds to concerns about potential politicization of the federal workforce by preventing wholesale reclassification of career civil servants into categories that would strip them of merit system protections. The legislation aims to maintain the integrity of the competitive service system by freezing the excepted service schedules as they existed on September 30, 2020, and establishing stringent procedural requirements for any transfers between service categories. By requiring employee consent for transfers and capping the number of positions that can be moved from competitive to excepted service, the bill seeks to protect career federal employees from arbitrary reclassification while preserving agency flexibility within defined limits.

Question 2

Who sponsored HR492?

Accepted Answer

Gerald Connolly, Brian Fitzpatrick, Kweisi Mfume, Don Bacon, Don Beyer, Eugene Vindman, Eleanor Norton, Eric Sorensen, Sarah Elfreth, Julia Brownley, Jamie Raskin, Diana DeGette, Mary Gay Scanlon, Shontel Brown, Jennifer McClellan, Suhas Subramanyam, Jim Costa, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, John Larson, Stephen Lynch, Emanuel Cleaver, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Steny Hoyer, Suzan DelBene, Ed Case, Nikki Budzinski, Ted Lieu, Janice Schakowsky, Joe Courtney, Glenn Ivey, Rashida Tlaib, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Joseph Morelle, Seth Moulton, Nikema Williams, Lucy McBath, Mark Pocan, Suzanne Bonamici, Sylvester Turner, James McGovern, Betty McCollum, Andre Carson, Johnny Olszewski, Mike Quigley, Donald Norcross, Daniel Goldman, Paul Tonko, Deborah Ross, Teresa Fernandez, Val Hoyle, Mike Levin, Frank Mrvan, Donald Davis, Brendan Boyle, Maxine Dexter, Maxine Waters, April McClain-Delaney, Dina Titus, Alma Adams, Robert Garcia, Emilia Sykes, Nanette Barragan, Andrea Salinas, Terri Sewell, Robin Kelly, Shri Thanedar, Robert Menendez, Seth Magaziner, Maggie Goodlander, Melanie Stansbury, Yassamin Ansari, William Keating, Shomari Figures, Laura Friedman, Ilhan Omar, Angela Craig, Rick Larsen, John Mannion, Dwight Evans, Michael Lawler, Emily Randall, Janelle Bynum, Sarah McBride, Wesley Bell, Frank Pallone, John Garamendi, Salud Carbajal, Mike Thompson, Lloyd Doggett, Kevin Mullin, Judy Chu, Haley Stevens, Sean Casten, Becca Balint, Al Green, Chellie Pingree, Elizabeth Fletcher, Greg Landsman, Derrick Van Orden, David Scott, Juan Vargas, Bradley Schneider, Darren Soto, Thomas Suozzi, Brittany Pettersen, Gwen Moore, Greg Casar, Julie Johnson, Mark DeSaulnier, Pramila Jayapal, Josh Harder, Analilia Mejia

Question 3

What is the status of HR492?

Accepted Answer

Introduced as of January 16, 2025.

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