I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9593 
To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 
Mr. SESSIONS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
A BILL 
To require annual surveys of Federal employee managers, 
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 ‘‘Manager Attitudes and 
Notions According to Government Employee Responses 
Act’’ or the ‘‘MANAGER Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE MANAGER SURVEYS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1128 of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 
108–136; 5 U.S.C. 7101 note) is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and 
(d) as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(b) MANAGERS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each agency shall conduct 
an annual survey of its managers that shall, in addi-
tion to the topics covered by the survey under sub-
section (a), include the following questions: 
‘‘(A) I have confidence my agency leader-
ship will support me if I try to discipline an em-
ployee. 
‘‘(B) I have confidence in the current sys-
tem to discipline employees. 
‘‘(C) I feel supported as a manager. 
‘‘(D) I have adequate training regarding 
how to discipline employees. 
‘‘(E) I have adequate time to observe new 
employees and attempt to correct deficiencies 
before their probationary period expires. 
‘‘(F) I have opted not to attempt to dis-
cipline an employee over the past year because 
I have no confidence in the system. 
‘‘(G) My input is sought regarding labor 
negotiations that will impact my work unit. 
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‘‘(H) I would recommend that a colleague 
in my agency become a manager if given the 
option to do so. 
‘‘(I) The inability to discipline poor per-
formers or otherwise bad employees hurts the 
morale of my work unit. 
‘‘(J) Good employees in my work unit have 
left because of the inability to discipline prob-
lematic employees. 
‘‘(2) RESPONSE OPTIONS.—Each survey under 
paragraph (1) shall include an option to provide nar-
rative responses to each question required under 
such paragraph, in addition to any other quan-
titative or qualitative response options.’’; 
(3) in subsections (c) and (d), as redesignated 
by paragraph (1) of this subsection, by striking 
‘‘subsection (a)’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘subsection (a) or (b)’’; and 
(4) by amending subsection (e), as so redesig-
nated, to read as follows: 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘agency’ means an Executive 
agency (as that term is defined in section 105 of 
title 5, United States Code); and 
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‘‘(2) the term ‘Federal manager’ means a Fed-
eral employee who— 
‘‘(A) has obtained the grade of GS–13 of 
the General Schedule or higher; and 
‘‘(B) is a supervisor or management offi-
cial (as those terms are defined in section 7103 
of such title 5).’’. 
(b) REQUIREMENT TO UPDATE SURVEYS.—Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Office of Personnel Management shall update the reg-
ulations required under subsection (c) of such section 
1128, as so redesignated, in order to implement the 
amendments made by this Act. 
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