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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 10053 

To require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to develop 

and implement mandatory training for covered Federal employees regarding compliance with directives from the President, Vice President, and 

other political appointees, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 25, 2024 

Mr. PFLUGER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Oversight and Accountability 

A BILL 

To require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to develop and implement mandatory training for 

covered Federal employees regarding compliance with directives from the President, Vice President, and other 

political appointees, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Resistance Activi5 ties by Federal Employees Act’’ or the ‘‘STRAFE Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. COMPLIANCE TRAINING FOR FEDERAL EMPLOY2 EES. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

4 date of the enactment of this Act, the Office of Personnel 

5 Management shall develop and implement a training pro6 gram for covered Federal employees on the limitations 

7 with respect to opposing, obstructing, or impeding lawful 

8 directives from the President, Vice President, or any other 

9 political appointee, including Executive orders, National 

10 Security Presidential Memoranda, Presidential Decision 

11 Directives, Agency Directives. 

12 (b) TRAINING CONTENTS.—The training program re13 quired under subsection (a) shall include— 

14 (1) an explanation of the violations and pen15 alties associated with obstructing the exercise of the 

16 authority or the performance of the responsibilities 

17 of the President or a political appointee; and 

18 (2) instructions on— 

19 (A) identifying the activities described in 

20 paragraph (1) and subsection (a) which Federal 

21 employees are prohibited from engaging in; and 

22 (B) how to report Federal employees en23 gaging in such prohibited activities to appro24 priate political appointees in the Senior Execu25 tive Service. 

26 (c) TRAINING SCHEDULE.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—The head of each Federal 

2 agency shall require each covered Federal employee 

3 of such agency to— 

4 (A) complete the training program imple5 mented under subsection (a)— 

6 (i) not later than 30 days after the 

7 appointment of such covered Federal em8 ployee to a position in such agency; and 

9 (ii) not less than once every 12 

10 months; and 

11 (B) each time such covered Federal em12 ployee completes such training program, sign a 

13 written statement acknowledging that such cov14 ered Federal employee has received such train15 ing and that such covered Federal employee will 

16 act in accordance with such training. 

17 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Paragraph (1) shall 

18 take effect on the date that is 30 days after the date 

19 on which the Office of Personnel Management imple20 ments the training program required under sub21 section (a). 

22 SEC. 3. REPORTING. 

23 (a) REPORTING PROCESS.—Not later than 180 days 

24 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of 

25 each Federal agency shall established a process for covered 


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1 Federal employees to report Federal employees for engag2 ing in activities described in subsections (a) and (b)(1) 

3 which Federal employees are prohibited from engaging in 

4 to appropriate political appointees in the Senior Executive 

5 Service. 

6 (b) REPORT TO PRESIDENT.—Not later than 180 

7 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 

8 six months thereafter, the head of each Federal agency 

9 shall submit to the Executive Office of the President a 

10 report containing— 

11 (1) the number of reports submitted during the 

12 period covered by the report with respect to Federal 

13 employees of such Federal agency engaging in activi14 ties described in subsections (a) and (b)(1) in viola15 tion of law, regulation, or policy; and 

16 (2) the number of investigations into such ac17 tivities that were initiated, ongoing, or completed 

18 during the period covered by the report. 

19 SEC. 4. PENALTIES FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH LAWFUL 

20 DIRECTIVES. 

21 In addition to any other penalties imposed by law, 

22 a covered employee who unlawfully opposes, obstructs, or 

23 impedes a lawful directive described in section 2(a) shall 

24 be subject to— 


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1 (1) disciplinary action up to and including re2 moval, reduction in grade, debarment from Federal 

3 employment for a period not to exceed 5 years, sus4 pension, or reprimand; 

5 (2) an assessment of a civil penalty not to ex6 ceed $1,000; or 

7 (3) any combination of the penalties described 

8 in paragraph (1) or (2). 

9 SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 

10 In this Act: 

11 (1) COVERED FEDERAL EMPLOYEE.—The term 

12 ‘‘covered Federal employee’’ means an individual 

13 holding a position in the civil service in the executive 

14 branch that is classified at or above GS–15 of the 

15 General Schedule (or equivalent) or in the Senior 

16 Executive Service (or equivalent) and either— 

17 (A) is in an element of the intelligence 

18 community (as such term is defined in section 

19 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 

20 U.S.C. 3003(4))); 

21 (B) is in the Department of Defense; 

22 (C) the duties of which are primarily— 

23 (i) performing law enforcement activi24 ties, including— 


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1 (I) the investigation, apprehen2 sion, or detention of individuals sus3 pected or convicted of offenses against 

4 the criminal laws of the United 

5 States; and 

6 (II) the enforcement of immigra7 tion laws (as such term is defined in 

8 section 101 of the Immigration and 

9 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)); 

10 (ii) the prosecution of such individuals 

11 for such offenses; 

12 (iii) the protection of officials of the 

13 United States against threats to personal 

14 safety; 

15 (iv) performing diplomatic activities 

16 with foreign entities on behalf of the 

17 United States; or 

18 (v) the development, implementation, 

19 or enforcement of regulations issued by 

20 Federal agencies, other than regulations 

21 pertaining only to the Federal Govern22 ment; or 

23 (D) is a supervisor (at any level) of a posi24 tion in the executive branch the duties of which 

25 are described in subparagraph (B). 


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1 (2) POLITICAL APPOINTEE DEFINED.—The 

2 term ‘‘political appointee’’ means an individual hold3 ing— 

4 (A) a position which has been excepted 

5 from the competitive service by reason of its 

6 confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, 

7 or policy-advocating character; or 

8 (B) a position in the Senior Executive 

9 Service as a noncareer appointee (as such term 

10 is defined in section 3132(a) of title 5, United 

11 States Code). 

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