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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8687 
To nullify the Executive Order entitled ‘‘Executive Order on Creating 
Schedule F In The Excepted Service’’, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 27, 2020 
Mr. CONNOLLY (for himself, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, and 
Mr. HOYER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Reform 
A BILL 
To nullify the Executive Order 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’’. 
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SEC. 2. NULLIFICATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER REGARDING 
SCHEDULE F AND LIMITATIONS ON CONVER-
SIONS OF COMPETITIVE SERVICE POSITIONS 
TO EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS. 
(a) RESCISSION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The provisions of the Execu-
tive Order entitled ‘‘Executive Order on Creating 
Schedule F In The Excepted Service’’, issued on Oc-
tober 21, 2020, are rescinded and shall have no 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. 
(c) CONVERSIONS.— 
(1) PROHIBITION.—Notwithstanding any other 
law, rule, or regulation, and except as provided in 
paragraph (2)— 
(A) a position in the competitive service 
may not be converted to a position in the ex-
cepted service; and 
(B) an individual serving in an appoint-
ment in the competitive service may not be con-
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verted to an appointment in the excepted serv-
ice. 
(2) 
CONVERSIONS
REVERSED.—Notwith-
standing paragraph (1)— 
(A) any position in the competitive service 
that was converted to a position in the excepted 
service under the Executive Order described in 
subsection (a)(1) during the period beginning 
on October 21, 2020, and ending on the date 
of enactment of this Act shall be converted to 
a position in the competitive service; and 
(B) any individual serving in an appoint-
ment in the competitive service who was con-
verted to an appointment in the excepted serv-
ice under such Executive Order during such pe-
riod shall be converted to an appointment in the 
competitive service. 
(3) COMPETITIVE STATUS.—An individual non-
competitively appointed to a position under schedule 
F (established under the Executive Order described 
in subsection (a)(1)) may not acquire competitive 
status under any conversion carried out under this 
subsection. 
(d) REINSTATEMENT.—Any individual occupying a 
position that was converted from the competitive service 
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to the excepted service under the Executive Order de-
scribed in subsection (a)(1), and any individual whose ap-
pointment was converted from the competitive service to 
the excepted service under such Executive Order, who was 
involuntary removed from the civil service during the pe-
riod beginning on October 21, 2020, and ending on the 
date of enactment of this Act shall be appointed by rein-
statement with backpay in accordance with section 5596 
of title 5, United States Code. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘civil 
service’’, ‘‘competitive service’’, and ‘‘excepted service’’ 
have the meaning given those terms in sections 2101(1), 
2102, and 2103, respectively, of title 5, United States 
Code. 
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