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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION H. R. 10517 
To require the head of each Executive agency to relocate 30 percent of 
the employees assigned to the headquarters of the Executive agency 
to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 19, 2024 
Mr. BEAN of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
A BILL 
To require the head of each Executive agency to relocate 
30 percent of the employees assigned to the headquarters 
of the Executive agency to duty stations outside the 
Washington metropolitan area, 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 ‘‘Decentralizing and Re-
organizing Agency Infrastructure Nation-wide To Harness 
Efficient Services, Workforce Administration, and Man-
agement Practices Act’’ or the ‘‘DRAIN THE SWAMP 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) BUDGET JUSTIFICATION MATERIALS.—The 
term ‘‘budget justification materials’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 3(b)(2)(A) of the Fed-
eral Funding Accountability and Transparency Act 
of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 
(2) EMPLOYEE.—The term ‘‘employee’’— 
(A) has the meaning given that term in 
section 2105 of title 5, United States Code; and 
(B) does not include an individual who— 
(i) in the event of a lapse in appro-
priations, would be an excepted employee 
and exempt from the limitation on vol-
untary services under section 1342 of title 
31, United States Code, because the duties 
of the position in which the individual is 
serving are performing mission-essential 
functions of the Executive agency employ-
ing the individual that are necessary for 
purposes of defending the United States 
against imminent threats; and 
(ii) is serving in a position within— 
(I) the Executive Office of the 
President; or 
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(II) a component, the mission of 
which is related to national security, 
of— 
(aa) the Department of De-
fense, including— 
(AA) the Defense Intel-
ligence Agency; 
(BB) the National Se-
curity Agency; and 
(CC) 
the 
National 
Geospatial-Intelligence 
Agency; 
(bb) the Department of En-
ergy; 
(cc) 
the 
Department 
of 
Homeland Security; 
(dd) the Office of the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence; or 
(ee) the Central Intelligence 
Agency. 
(3) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Executive 
agency’’ means an agency, as defined in section 551 
of title 5, United States Code, that is in the execu-
tive branch of the Government. 
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(4) HEADQUARTERS EMPLOYEE OF AN EXECU-
TIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘headquarters employee of 
an Executive agency’’ means— 
(A) an employee of an Executive agency 
whose permanent duty station is at the head-
quarters of the Executive agency; or 
(B) an employee of an Executive agency— 
(i) who teleworks on a full-time basis; 
and 
(ii) whose rate of pay is calculated 
based on the Washington metropolitan 
area rate of pay. 
(5) HEADQUARTERS OF THE EXECUTIVE AGEN-
CY.—The term ‘‘headquarters of the Executive agen-
cy’’, with respect to an Executive agency, means the 
building serving as the principal managerial and ad-
ministrative center of the Executive agency. 
(6) PAY LOCALITY.—The term ‘‘pay locality’’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 5302 of 
title 5, United States Code. 
(7) RURAL.—The term ‘‘rural’’ means any area 
that is not designated as an urban area, based on 
the most recent data available from the Bureau of 
the Census. 
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