I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2880 
To provide employment protections for, and reinstatement of, certain 
probationary Federal career employees, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 10, 2025 
Mr. OLSZEWSKI (for himself, Mr. CARSON, Mr. GARCIA of California, Mr. 
HERNA´NDEZ, Mr. HOYER, Mr. IVEY, Mr. LICCARDO, Ms. NORTON, Ms. 
TITUS, Mr. TONKO, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. WILLIAMS 
of Georgia, Mrs. DINGELL, Ms. ELFRETH, Mr. FIELDS, Mr. HORSFORD, 
Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. KENNEDY of New 
York, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. LIEU, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. 
RASKIN, Mr. TRAN, Mr. BELL, Mr. MCGARVEY, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of 
Georgia, Mr. STANTON, and Mr. CLEAVER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To provide employment protections for, and reinstatement 
of, certain probationary Federal career employees, 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. EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS AND REINSTATE-
MENT OF PROBATIONARY CAREER FEDERAL 
EMPLOYEES. 
(a) DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any Federal employee who 
is promoted to a position in the competitive service, 
a career position in the excepted service, or to a ca-
reer appointee position in the Senior Executive Serv-
ice and, after such promotion, is serving under a 
probationary or trial period shall be deemed to be 
covered by, and subject to the requirements of 
suchapter II or subchapter V (as the case may be) 
of chapter 75 of title 5, United States Code. 
(2) VA EMPLOYEES.—Any Federal employee 
who is promoted to a position at the Department of 
Veterans Affairs and, after such promotion, is serv-
ing under a probationary or trial period shall be 
deemed to be covered by, and subject to the require-
ments of, section 714 of title 38, United States 
Code. 
(b) REINSTATEMENT.—Any individual who was a 
Federal employee serving under a probationary or trial 
status after a promotion and who was removed from the 
competitive service, a career position in the excepted serv-
ice, or a career appointee position in the Senior Executive 
Service during the period beginning on January 20, 2025, 
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and ending on the date of the enactment of this Act shall, 
at the election of the individual, be reinstated to the same 
position or an equivalent position with backpay in accord-
ance with section 5596 of title 5, United States Code. 
(c) LIMITATION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to 
any individual promoted to a political position and sub-
section (b) shall not apply to any individual removed from 
a political position. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘career appointee’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 3132(a) of title 5, 
United States Code; 
(2) the terms ‘‘civil service’’, ‘‘competitive serv-
ice’’, and ‘‘excepted service’’ have the meaning given 
those terms in section 2101, 2102, and 2103, re-
spectively, of such title; and 
(3) the term ‘‘political position’’ means— 
(A) a position described under sections 
5312 through 5316 of such title 5 (relating to 
the Executive Schedule); 
(B) a noncareer appointee (as that term is 
defined in such section 3132(a)); or 
(C) a position in the executive branch of 
the Government of a confidential or policy-de-
termining character under schedule C of sub-
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part C of part 213 of title 5, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
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