I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6700 
To establish the Presidential Management Fellows Program, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 12, 2025 
Ms. STANSBURY (for herself, Ms. BONAMICI, and Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To establish the Presidential Management Fellows Program, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Training Aspiring 
Leaders Emerging Now To Serve Act’’ or the ‘‘TALENTS 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADVANCED
DEGREE; QUALIFYING
EDU-
CATIONAL INSTITUTION.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—The terms ‘‘advanced 
degree’’ and ‘‘qualifying educational institu-
tion’’ have the meanings given those terms in 
section 362.102 of title 5, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, or any successor regulation. 
(B) DETERMINATION BY DIRECTOR.—The 
Director may determine whether a master’s cer-
tificate qualifies as an advanced degree for the 
purposes of the Program. 
(2) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’— 
(A) has the meaning given the term ‘‘Exec-
utive agency’’ in section 105 of title 5, United 
States Code; and 
(B) includes the Government Publishing 
Office. 
(3) AGENCY
PMF
COORDINATOR.—The term 
‘‘agency PMF Coordinator’’ means an individual, at 
the appropriate component level of an agency, who— 
(A) coordinates the placement, develop-
ment, and other Program-related activities of 
Fellows appointed in the agency; and 
(B) satisfies the criteria described in sec-
tion 362.104(a)(8) of title 5, Code of Federal 
Regulations, or any successor regulation. 
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(4) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. 
(5) EXECUTIVE RESOURCES BOARD.—The term 
‘‘Executive Resources Board’’— 
(A) means an Executive Resources Board 
described in section 317.501(a) of title 5, Code 
of Federal Regulations, or any successor regula-
tion; and 
(B) with respect to an agency that is not 
required to have an Executive Resources Board 
pursuant to section 317.501(a) of title 5, Code 
of Federal Regulations, or any successor regula-
tion, means the senior agency official to whom 
the head of the agency has given responsibility 
for executive resources management and over-
sight. 
(6) FEDERAL
EXECUTIVE
BOARD.—The term 
‘‘Federal Executive Board’’ means a Federal Execu-
tive Board established under section 11. 
(7) FELLOW.—The term ‘‘Fellow’’ means an in-
dividual appointed to serve as a Fellow under the 
Program. 
(8) METROPOLITAN AREA.—The term ‘‘metro-
politan area’’ means a geographic zone surrounding 
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a major city, as defined and delimited from time to 
time by the Director. 
(9) PRINCIPAL AREA OFFICER.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘principal 
area officer’’ means, with respect to an agency, 
the senior official of the agency who is located 
in a metropolitan area and who has no superior 
official within that metropolitan area other than 
in the regional office of the agency. 
(B) MULTIPLE
BUREAUS.—If an agency 
maintains facilities of more than 1 bureau or 
other subdivision within a metropolitan area, 
and the heads of those facilities are in separate 
chains of command within the agency, the agen-
cy may have more than 1 principal area officer. 
(10) PRINCIPAL
REGIONAL
OFFICER.—The 
term ‘‘principal regional officer’’ means, with respect 
to an agency, the senior official in a regional office 
of the agency. 
(11) PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘Program’’ means 
the Presidential Management Fellows Program es-
tablished under this Act. 
(12) SPECIAL
REPRESENTATIVE.—The term 
‘‘special representative’’ means, with respect to an 
agency, an official who is— 
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