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119TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 242 

To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 9, 2025 

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

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

A BILL 

To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, 

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 ‘‘Manager Attitudes and 

5 Notions According to Government Employee Responses 

6 Act’’ or the ‘‘MANAGER Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE MANAGER SURVEYS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1128 of the National De9 fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 

10 108–136; 5 U.S.C. 7101 note) is amended— 


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1 (1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and 

2 (d) as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively; 

3 (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol4 lowing: 

5 ‘‘(b) MANAGERS.— 

6 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each agency shall conduct 

7 an annual survey of its managers that shall, in addi8 tion to the topics covered by the survey under sub9 section (a), include the following questions: 

10 ‘‘(A) I have confidence my agency leader11 ship will support me if I try to discipline an em12 ployee. 

13 ‘‘(B) I have confidence in the current sys14 tem to discipline employees. 

15 ‘‘(C) I feel supported as a manager. 

16 ‘‘(D) I have adequate training regarding 

17 how to discipline employees. 

18 ‘‘(E) I have adequate time to observe new 

19 employees and attempt to correct deficiencies 

20 before their probationary period expires. 

21 ‘‘(F) I have opted not to attempt to dis22 cipline an employee over the past year because 

23 I have no confidence in the system. 

24 ‘‘(G) My input is sought regarding labor 

25 negotiations that will impact my work unit. 


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1 ‘‘(H) I would recommend that a colleague 

2 in my agency become a manager if given the 

3 option to do so. 

4 ‘‘(I) The inability to discipline poor per5 formers or otherwise bad employees hurts the 

6 morale of my work unit. 

7 ‘‘(J) Good employees in my work unit have 

8 left because of the inability to discipline prob9 lematic employees. 

10 ‘‘(2) RESPONSE OPTIONS.—Each survey under 

11 paragraph (1) shall include an option to provide nar12 rative responses to each question required under 

13 such paragraph, in addition to any other quan14 titative or qualitative response options.’’; 

15 (3) in subsections (c) and (d), as redesignated 

16 by paragraph (1) of this subsection, by striking 

17 ‘‘subsection (a)’’ each place it appears and inserting 

18 ‘‘subsection (a) or (b)’’; and 

19 (4) by amending subsection (e), as so redesig20 nated, to read as follows: 

21 ‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

22 ‘‘(1) the term ‘agency’ means an Executive 

23 agency (as that term is defined in section 105 of 

24 title 5, United States Code); and 


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1 ‘‘(2) the term ‘Federal manager’ means a Fed2 eral employee who— 

3 ‘‘(A) has obtained the grade of GS–13 of 

4 the General Schedule or higher; and 

5 ‘‘(B) is a supervisor or management offi6 cial (as those terms are defined in section 7103 

7 of such title 5).’’. 

8 (b) REQUIREMENT TO UPDATE SURVEYS.—Not later 

9 than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 

10 the Office of Personnel Management shall update the reg11 ulations required under subsection (c) of such section 

12 1128, as so redesignated, in order to implement the 

13 amendments made by this Act. 

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