Legislative Bill Tracker

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Below is a list of key legislation affecting federal and DC Government workers that has been introduced in the 119th Congress:

Title	AFGE Position	House	Senate	Status
Saving the Civil Service Act What it would do: Prevent the politicization of the non-partisan civil service by limiting the conversion of federal jobs from the competitive service to the excepted service without congressional approval.	SUPPORT	0HR 492	Z S 134	Introduced
Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act What it would do: Help narrow the nearly 25% pay gap between federal and non-federal workers by providing a 4.3% pay raise in January 2026 that would be divided between a 3.3% across-the-board increase and a 1% locality increase that would vary geographically.	SUPPORT	0HR 493	S 126	Introduced
The Equal COLA Act What it would do: End the disparity in annual cost-of-living adjustments for employees under the older Civil Service Retirement System and the newer Federal Employees Retirement System.	SUPPORT	0HR 491	NA	Introduced
Rights for the TSA Workforce Act What it would do: Enshrine into law that Transportation Security Officers receive the same basic rights afforded to all other federal workers, such as collective bargaining rights, and ensure that TSOs can advocate for workplace improvements without fear of retaliation. Send a letter to Congress to protect TSO pay and rights.	SUPPORT	HR 2086	S 997	Introduced
Probationary Employee Bill What it would do: If enacted would allow hardworking civil servants to return to the important work of serving the American people.	SUPPORT	HR 1989	NA	Introduced
Protect America's Workforce Act What it would do: Rescind President Trump’s Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs Executive Order (EO) issued on March 27, 2025, and restore collective bargaining rights to 1.5 million federal employees targeted by the EO. Send a letter to Congress about the Protect America's Workforce Act.	SUPPORT	HR 2550	NA	Introduced
Model Employee Reinstatement for Ill-advised Termination (MERIT) Act What it would do: Rep. LaMonica McIver (NJ-10) introduced the in the House to reinstate federal employees who were unjustly fired by Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative that targeted federal workers. In addition to rehiring these workers, the MERIT Act gives them the back pay they deserve.	SUPPORT	HR 1835	N/A	Introduced
Federal Firefighter's Families First Act What it would do: Include mandatory overtime hours worked into the calculation of retirement benefits to ensure federal firefighters are eligible for the same full and fair retirement benefits as their state and local counterparts.	SUPPORT	HR 0759	N/A	Introduced
Protect Veterans Jobs Act What it would do: Reinstate veterans who were fired from their jobs a during the Trump Administration and DOGE purge of federal employees.	SUPPORT	HR 1637	S 914	Introduced
COST of Relocations Act What it would do: Require a cost-benefit analysis to be submitted to Congress to ensure that any attempt to move federal agencies is appropriately analyzed to guarantee it is in the best interest of the taxpayer and the agency’s mission.	SUPPORT	HR 2470	N/A	Introduced
SERVICE Act What it would do: Prevent an agency from reducing its workforce by 5% or greater in a given fiscal year without itself conducting a full impact analysis of those cuts on the agency's ability to carry out its mission, and GAO evaluating the accuracy of that evaluation.	SUPPORT	HR 2906	N/A	Introduced
Ensuring Agency Service Quality Act What it would do: Amend 5 USC 3101 ("Each Executive agency, military department, and the government of the District of Columbia may employ such number of employees of the various classes recognized by chapter 51 of this title as Congress may appropriate for from year to year."), the general authority provision that allows the government to employ, from a 'may employ' to a 'shall employ', and requires an agency to justify their inability or refusal to comply with the requirement.	SUPPORT	HR 2905	N/A	Introduced
No Tax Breaks for Union Busting Act What it would do: Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to end the tax subsidy for employer efforts to influence their workers' exercise of their rights around labor organizations and engaging in collective action.	SUPPORT	HR 2692	N/A	Introduced