IIB 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 139 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
FEBRUARY 2, 2023 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To require Executive agencies to submit to Congress a study 
of the impacts of expanded telework and remote work 
by agency employees during the COVID–19 pandemic 
and a plan for the agency’s future use of telework and 
remote work, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stopping Home Office 
Work’s Unproductive Problems Act of 2023’’ or the 
‘‘SHOW UP Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT OF PRE-PANDEMIC TELEWORK 
POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EX-
ECUTIVE AGENCIES. 
Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, each agency shall reinstate and apply the 
telework policies, practices, and levels of the agency as in 
effect on December 31, 2019, and may not expand any 
such policy, practices, or levels until the date that an agen-
cy plan is submitted to Congress with a certification by 
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management under 
section 3. 
SEC. 3. STUDY, PLAN, AND CERTIFICATION REGARDING EX-
ECUTIVE 
AGENCY 
TELEWORK 
POLICIES, 
PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EXECUTIVE 
AGENCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency, 
in consultation with the Director, shall submit to Con-
gress— 
(1) a study on the impacts on the agency and 
its mission of expanding telework by its employees 
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during the SARS–CoV–2 pandemic that commenced 
in 2019, including an analysis of— 
(A) any adverse impacts of that expansion 
on the agency’s performance of its mission, in-
cluding the performance of customer service by 
the agency; 
(B) any costs to the agency during that ex-
pansion attributable to— 
(i) owning, leasing, or maintaining 
under-utilized real property; or 
(ii) paying higher rates of locality pay 
to teleworking employees as a result of in-
correctly classifying such employees as 
teleworkers rather than remote workers; 
(C) any degree to which the agency failed 
during that expansion to provide teleworking 
employees with secure network capacity, com-
munications tools, necessary and secure access 
to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 
records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 
such employee to be fully productive; 
(D) any degree to which that expansion fa-
cilitated dispersal of the agency workforce 
around the Nation; and 
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(E) any other impacts of that expansion 
that the agency or the Director considers ap-
propriate; 
(2) any agency plan to expand telework policies, 
practices, or levels beyond those in place as a result 
of section 2; and 
(3) a certification by the Director that such 
plan will— 
(A) have a substantial positive effect on— 
(i) the performance of the agency’s 
mission, including the performance of cus-
tomer service; 
(ii) increasing the level of dispersal of 
agency personnel throughout the Nation; 
and 
(iii) the reversal of any adverse im-
pact set forth pursuant to paragraph 
(1)(D); 
(B) substantially lower the agency’s costs 
of owning, leasing, or maintaining real prop-
erty; 
(C) substantially lower the agency’s costs 
attributable to paying locality pay to agency 
personnel working from locations outside the 
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pay locality of their position’s official worksite; 
and 
(D) ensure that teleworking employees will 
be provided with secure network capacity, com-
munications tools, necessary and secure access 
to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 
records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 
such employee to be fully productive, without 
substantially increasing the agency’s overall 
costs for secure network capacity, communica-
tions tools, and equipment. 
(b) LIMITATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—An agency may not imple-
ment the plan submitted under subsection (a)(2) un-
less a certification by the Director was issued under 
subsection (a)(3). 
(2) SUBSEQUENT PLANS.—In the event an ini-
tial agency plan submitted under subsection (a)(2) 
fails to receive such certification, the agency may 
submit to the Director subsequent plans until such 
certification is received, and submit such plan and 
certification to Congress. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act— 
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