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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7835 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 19, 2022 
Ms. HERRELL (for herself, Mr. COMER, Mr. C. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida, 
Mr. GIBBS, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. CLOUD, Mr. KELLER, Mr. 
BIGGS, Mr. DONALDS, and Mr. CLYDE) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
A BILL 
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, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stopping Home Office 
Work’s Unproductive Problems Act of 2022’’ or the 
‘‘SHOW UP Act of 2022’’. 
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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 
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-
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(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 
pay locality of their position’s official worksite; 
and 
(D) ensure that teleworking employees will 
be provided with secure network capacity, com-
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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— 
(1) the term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given 
the term ‘‘Executive agency’’ in section 105 of title 
5, United States Code; 
(2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the Office of Personnel Management; 
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(3) the term ‘‘locality pay’’ means locality pay 
provided for under section 5304 or 5304a of such 
title; and 
(4) the terms ‘‘telework’’ and ‘‘teleworking’’ 
have the meaning given those terms in section 6501 
of such title, and include remote work. 
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