I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7743 
To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish the ‘‘Department of Energy 
Experienced Worker Program’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 20, 2024 
Ms. DEGETTE (for herself and Mr. FULCHER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish the 
‘‘Department of Energy Experienced Worker Program’’. 
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 ‘‘Department of Energy 
Experienced Worker Program Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY EXPERIENCED WORKER 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy shall es-
tablish an experienced worker program, to be known as 
the ‘‘Department of Energy Experienced Worker Pro-
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gram’’, for the purpose of awarding grants and entering 
into multiyear cooperative agreements to use the talents 
of individuals in the United States who are age 55 or older 
and are not employees of the Department of Energy to 
provide technical, professional, and administrative services 
to support the mission of the Department of Energy. 
(b) GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law relating to Federal grants and coop-
erative agreements, in carrying out the Department 
of Energy Experienced Worker Program established 
under subsection (a), the Secretary of Energy may 
make grants to, or enter into multiyear cooperative 
agreements with, private national nonprofit organi-
zations eligible to receive grants under title V of the 
Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056 et 
seq.) to use the talents of individuals in the United 
States who are age 55 or older and are not employ-
ees of the Department of Energy to provide tech-
nical, professional, and administrative services to 
support the mission of the Department of Energy. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—Prior to awarding a 
grant or entering into a cooperative agreement 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Energy shall 
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ensure that the grant or cooperative agreement 
would not— 
(A) result in the displacement of individ-
uals currently employed by the Department of 
Energy, including partial displacement through 
reduction of non-overtime hours, wages, or em-
ployment benefits; 
(B) result in the use of an individual under 
the Department of Energy Experienced Worker 
Program for a job or function in a case in 
which a Federal employee is in a layoff status 
from the same or substantially equivalent job 
within the Department; 
(C) affect existing contracts for services; or 
(D) result in the conversion of enrollees in 
the Department of Energy Experienced Worker 
Program into employees of the Department. 
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