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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 326 
To nullify the Executive Order 13957 entitled ‘‘Executive Order on Creating 
Schedule F In The Excepted Service’’, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 15, 2021 
Mr. CONNOLLY (for himself, Ms. NORTON, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. BEYER, Mr. 
RASKIN, Mr. HOYER, Mr. TRONE, Mr. BROWN, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALO-
NEY of New York, and Ms. WEXTON) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
A BILL 
To nullify the Executive Order 13957 entitled ‘‘Executive 
Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service’’, 
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 ‘‘Saving the Civil Serv-
ice Act’’. 
SEC. 2. NULLIFICATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 13957 RE-
LATING TO SCHEDULE F IN THE EXCEPTED 
SERVICE. 
(a) RESCISSION.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The provisions of the Execu-
tive Order 13957 (relating to Executive Order on 
Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service), 
issued on October 21, 2020, are rescinded and shall 
have no force or effect. 
(2) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—This subsection shall 
take effect as if enacted on October 21, 2020. 
(b) LIMITATION ON FUNDS.—No Federal funds may 
be used to implement, administer, or otherwise carry out 
the Executive Order described in subsection (a)(1), or any 
successor Executive Order or regulation. 
SEC. 3. LIMITATIONS ON CONVERSIONS OF POSITIONS AND 
APPOINTMENTS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any other law, 
rule, or regulation, and except as provided in subsection 
(b)— 
(1) a position in the competitive service or the 
Senior Executive Service may not be converted to a 
position in the excepted service; and 
(2) an individual serving in an appointment in 
the competitive service or the Senior Executive Serv-
ice may not be converted to an appointment in the 
excepted service. 
(b) 
CONVERSIONS
AND
APPOINTMENTS
RE-
VERSED.—Notwithstanding subsection (a)— 
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(1) any position in the competitive service that 
was converted to a position in the excepted service 
under Executive Order 13957 during the period be-
ginning on October 21, 2020, and ending on the 
date of enactment of this Act shall be converted to 
a position in the competitive service; 
(2) any individual serving in an appointment in 
the competitive service who was converted to an ap-
pointment in the excepted service under such Execu-
tive Order during such period shall be converted to 
an appointment in the competitive service; 
(3) any individual serving in an appointment in 
the excepted service who was transferred to schedule 
F from any of schedules A, B, C, D, or E in the 
excepted service during such period shall be trans-
ferred to such schedule A, B, C, D, or E (as the 
case may be); 
(4) any individual noncompetitively appointed 
to any position under schedule F during such period 
shall be transferred to schedule C in the excepted 
service; and 
(5) any individual serving in the Senior Execu-
tive Service as a limited term appointee, limited 
emergency appointee, or noncareer appointee (as 
those terms are defined in paragraphs (5), (6), and 
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(7), respectively, of section 3132(a) of title 5, United 
States Code) and who was converted to an appoint-
ment in the excepted service under such Executive 
Order during such period shall be converted to such 
appointee position in the Senior Executive Service. 
(c) POLITICAL APPOINTEES NONCOMPETITIVELY AP-
POINTED
OR TRANSFERRED
TO SCHEDULE F POSI-
TIONS.—Any individual described in subsection (b)(3), 
(b)(4), or (b)(5)— 
(1) may not be converted to a position or ap-
pointment in the competitive service; 
(2) may not acquire competitive status under 
any conversion carried out under this section; and 
(3) shall not be afforded any employment pro-
tections established under section 6 of the Executive 
Order 13957. 
(d) REINSTATEMENT.—Any individual occupying a 
position that was converted from the competitive service 
to the excepted service under the Executive Order 13957, 
and any individual whose appointment was converted from 
the competitive service to the excepted service under such 
Executive Order, who was involuntarily removed from the 
civil service during the period beginning on October 21, 
2020, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act 
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