Legislative Bill Tracker

Below is a list of key legislation affecting federal and DC Government workers that has been introduced in the 118th Congress:

Title	AFGE Position	House	Senate	Status
Chance to Compete Act What it would do: Reestablish competitive hiring as the preferred method for staffing the civil service by ensuring that vacancies are open to the public and to other qualified federal workers, establishing panels of subject-matter experts to assist with screening applicants, and allow applicants deemed qualified for certain kinds of work to be considered for multiple jobs across the government without having to reapply for each one.	SUPPORT	HR 159	NA	Passed House
Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems Act (SHOW UP Act) What it would do: Repeal telework policies implemented at federal agencies since 2020 and require agencies to get administration approval over future telework policies.	OPPOSE	HR 139	S 1569	Passed House
Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act (FAIR Act) What it would do: Provide federal employees with an 8.7% average pay raise in 2024 Take Action: Contact Your Lawmakers NOW and Ask them to Cosponsor the FAIR Act.	SUPPORT	HR 536	S 124	Introduced
SAFE CARS Act What it would do: Prohibit the federal government from selling vehicles with an open and actionable recall to the public and require federal agencies that lease or own vehicles with an available recall to remedy the defect	SUPPORT	HR 799	NA	Introduced
Comprehensive Paid Family Leave Act What it would do: Provide federal employees with 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave	SUPPORT	HR 856	S 274	Introduced
Equal COLA Act What it would do: Revise the formula used to calculate cost-of-living adjustments for annuities paid under the Federal Employees Retirement System to achieve parity with COLAs paid under the Civil Service Retirement System  Take Action: Write to your elected officials and urge them to support the Equal COLA Act.	SUPPORT	HR 866	NA	Introduced
Honoring our Fallen TSA Officers Act What it would do: Amend federal law so the survivors of Transportation Security Officers can receive public safety officers’ death benefits like those offered to the families of fallen firefighters, police officers, FBI agents, and state troopers	SUPPORT	HR 871	NA	Introduced
Saving the Civil Service Act What it would do: Protect the federal workforce from politicization by preventing federal employees from being reclassified outside the merit-based competitive service without prior authorization from Congress and limiting employee conversions from the competitive to excepted service	SUPPORT	HR 1002	S 399	Introduced
Conducting Oversight to Secure Transparency (COST) of Relocations Act What it would do: Require any federal agency preparing to relocate to conduct and release to the public a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of the proposed move before it is carried out	SUPPORT	HR 1106	S 487	Introduced
Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act What it would do: Improve safety and oversight of federal meat inspections by ending self-inspections by meat producers, increasing the number of federal food inspectors, ending high-speed slaughter lines, and screening animals for dangerous drugs	SUPPORT	HR 805	S 272	Introduced
Firefighter Pay Equity Act What it would do: Ensure that all hours worked by federal fighters are counted toward retirement, including mandatory overtime	SUPPORT	HR 1235	NA	Introduced
Law Enforcement Officers Equity/Parity Act What it would do: Expand the definition of law enforcement officer under Title 5 of the U.S. Code to include all federal employees who are authorized to carry a firearm and whose duties involve the investigation or apprehension of suspected or convicted individuals Take Action: Contact your lawmakers and ask them to cosponsor the Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act (House) and the Law Enforcement Officers Parity Act (Senate)	SUPPORT	HR 1322	S 1658	Introduced
Protecting the Right to Organize Act What it would do: Protect the right of all U.S. employees to form a union and bargain for higher wages, better benefits, and safer workplaces	SUPPORT	HR 20	NA	Introduced
Eric’s Law What it would do: Allow prosecutors to impanel a second jury if a jury in a federal death penalty case fails to reach a unanimous decision on a sentence, thereby potentially avoiding situations where those convicted of violent crimes escape further punishment because they are already serving a life sentence	SUPPORT	HR 3449	NA	Introduced
Federal Prison Oversight Act What it would do: Require the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General to inspect all 122 Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities and assign risk scores to each, with high-risk facilities subjected to additional inspections and recommendations.	SUPPORT	NA	S 1401	Introduced

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