[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3005 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3005

To require Executive agencies to submit reports to Congress and to the 
 Office of Personnel Management regarding employees who are furloughed 
during any period during which there is a lapse in appropriations, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 14, 2025

   Ms. Ernst introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require Executive agencies to submit reports to Congress and to the 
 Office of Personnel Management regarding employees who are furloughed 
during any period during which there is a lapse in appropriations, 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 ``Non-Essential Workers Transparency 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means, with respect to 
        an Executive agency--
                    (A) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
                    (B) the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                Reform of the House of Representatives; and
                    (C) any other committee of Congress with 
                jurisdiction with respect to the Executive agency.
            (2) Covered employee.--The term ``covered employee'' means 
        an employee of an Executive agency who is subject to furlough 
        during a covered period with respect to that Executive agency.
            (3) Covered period.--The term ``covered period'' means a 
        period during which there is a lapse in appropriations with 
        respect to an Executive agency.
            (4) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of 
        the Office of Personnel Management.
            (5) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given the term in section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
    (b) Requirements.--Not later than 30 days after the date on which a 
covered period with respect to an Executive agency ends, the Under 
Secretary (or the equivalent) of that Executive agency shall 
electronically submit to the appropriate congressional committees with 
respect to that Executive agency, and to the Director, a report that 
contains--
            (1) the total number of employees (including contract 
        employees) employed by the Executive agency, as of the day 
        before the day on which that covered period began;
            (2) the total amount expended by the Executive agency on 
        salaries of employees during the fiscal year preceding the 
        fiscal year in which that covered period began;
            (3) the total number of employees of the Executive agency 
        who were covered employees during that covered period;
            (4) the sum obtained by adding the annual rate of basic pay 
        of each employee described in paragraph (3);
            (5) the total number of employees of the Executive agency 
        who were not covered employees during that covered period; and
            (6) the sum obtained by adding the annual rate of basic pay 
        of each employee described in paragraph (5).
    (c) Procedures.--
            (1) Classification.--Each Executive agency submitting a 
        report under subsection (b), or an update to such a report, 
        shall submit that report or update in unclassified form, but 
        that report or update may include a classified annex.
            (2) Publication.--Not later than 30 days after the date on 
        which an appropriate congressional committee receives a report 
        submitted under subsection (b), that appropriate congressional 
        committee shall publish the report on the website of the 
        appropriate congressional committee.
            (3) OPM requirements.--Not later than 60 days after the 
        date on which a covered period with respect to 1 or more 
        Executive agencies ends, the Director shall--
                    (A) consolidate all reports submitted to the 
                Director under subsection (b) with respect to that 
                covered period into a single report; and
                    (B) publish the consolidated report created under 
                subparagraph (A) on the website of the Office of 
                Personnel Management.
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