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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4623 

To require each Executive agency to reduce the workforce of the agency 

after the enactment of a law that requires the consolidation or elimination of a program or project within the agency, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 12, 2017 

Mr. ROKITA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Oversight and Government Reform 

A BILL 

To require each Executive agency to reduce the workforce 

of the agency after the enactment of a law that requires 

the consolidation or elimination of a program or project 

within the agency, 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 ‘‘Cutting Useless and 

5 Redundant Bureaucrats (CURB) Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF EXECUTIVE AGENCY STAFF DUE TO 

2 MANDATED CONSOLIDATION OR ELIMI3 NATION OF PROGRAMS. 

4 In any case in which a law is enacted that requires 

5 the consolidation or elimination of a program or project 

6 within an Executive agency (as defined in section 105 of 

7 title 5, United States Code), the head of such agency 

8 shall— 

9 (1) not later than 60 days after the date of en10 actment of such law, identify the number of agency 

11 full-time equivalent employees who worked on or ad12 ministered each program or project of the agency 

13 authorized under Federal law, as such program or 

14 project was in effect on the day before such date, 

15 and publish such information on the agency’s 

16 website; 

17 (2) not later than 60 days after such date, 

18 identify the number of full-time equivalent employees 

19 who worked on or administered each such program 

20 or project, as such program or project was in effect 

21 on the day before such date, that has been elimi22 nated or consolidated since such date; 

23 (3) not later than 1 year after such date, re24 duce the workforce of the agency by the number of 

25 full-time equivalent employees the agency identified 

26 under paragraph (2); and 


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1 (4) not later than 1 year after such date, report 

2 to the Congress on— 

3 (A) the number of full-time equivalent em4 ployees associated with each program or project 

5 authorized under Federal law and administered 

6 by the agency; 

7 (B) the number of full-time equivalent em8 ployees who were determined to be associated 

9 with eliminated or consolidated programs or 

10 projects described in paragraph (2); 

11 (C) how the head of the agency has re12 duced the number of full-time equivalent em13 ployees as described in paragraph (3); 

14 (D) the average salary of the full-time 

15 equivalent employees described in subparagraph 

16 (B) whose positions were eliminated; and 

17 (E) the average salary of the full-time 

18 equivalent employees who work on or admin19 ister a program or project authorized under 

20 Federal law, disaggregated by employee func21 tion within each such program or project. 

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