‘‘(3) TELEWORK.—The term ‘telework’ or ‘tele-
working’— 
‘‘(A) refers to a work flexibility arrange-
ment under which an employee performs (on a 
periodic or full-time basis) the duties and re-
sponsibilities of such employee’s position, and 
other authorized activities, from an approved 
worksite other than the location from which the 
employee would otherwise work; and 
‘‘(B) includes remote work, which refers to 
a particular type of telework arrangement 
under which an employee is not expected to re-
port to an officially established agency location 
on a regular and recurring basis.’’. 
(b) FEDERAL AGENCY TELEWORKING POLICIES.— 
Section 6502 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 
subparagraph (B); 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
of subparagraph (C) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(D) provide for executive agency man-
agers and supervisors annual work training and 
instruction in compliance with the requirements 
in section 6503.’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘any 
calendar year’’ and inserting ‘‘any of the 5 cal-
endar years preceding a calendar year in which 
a determination is made pursuant to this sub-
paragraph with respect to an employee’s eligi-
bility to telework’’; and 
(2) in subection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (4); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (5) and inserting a semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) include annual agency goals for the num-
ber and percent of employees participating in 
telework— 
‘‘(A) three or more days per pay period; 
‘‘(B) one or 2 days per pay period; 
‘‘(C) once per month; and 
‘‘(D) on an occasional, episodic, or short- 
term basis; and 
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‘‘(7) methods for collecting data on, setting 
goals for, and reporting costs savings to the execu-
tive agency achieved through teleworking, consistent 
with the guidance developed under section 2(g) of 
the Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act.’’. 
(c) TRAINING AND MONITORING.—Section 6503 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(B), by inserting ‘‘or su-
pervisors’’ after ‘‘managers’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘, except that 
an agency head may not exempt a manager or su-
pervisor described in subsection (a)(1)(B) from any 
training required under subsection (a)(3)’’ after 
‘‘date of enactment of this chapter’’. 
(d) POLICY AND SUPPORT.—Section 6504, of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(3) REVIEW.—The Director of the Office of 
Personnel Management, in coordination with the De-
partment of Homeland Security and the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, shall— 
‘‘(A) perform an annual review of the 
guidelines issued under this subsection; and 
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‘‘(B) make any updates to the guidelines 
issued under this subsection that are deter-
mined to be appropriate as a result of a review 
conducted under subparagraph (A).’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d), in the subsection heading, 
by inserting ‘‘; PLANS FOR DISEASE OUTBREAKS’’ 
after ‘‘OPERATIONS PLANS’’. 
(e) REPORTS.— 
(1) OPM REPORTS.—Section 6506(b) of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 
clause (i); and 
(ii) by inserting after clause (ii) the 
following: 
‘‘(iii) the Chief Human Capital Offi-
cers Council; and’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (F)(vi), by strik-
ing ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(ii) in subparagraph (G), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(H) agency cost savings achieved through 
teleworking, consistent with the guidance devel-
oped under section 2(g) of the Telework Metrics 
and Cost Savings Act.’’. 
(2) CHCO REPORTS.—Section 6506(d) of title 
5, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (3); and 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following: 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—Each report submitted by a 
Chief Human Capital Officer under paragraph (1) 
shall include— 
‘‘(A) annual goals for increasing the per-
cent of employees of the executive agency who 
are eligible for and participating in tele-
working— 
‘‘(i) three or more days per pay pe-
riod; 
‘‘(ii) one or 2 days per pay period; 
‘‘(iii) once per month; and 
‘‘(iv) on an occasional, episodic, or 
short-term basis; and 
‘‘(B) the teleworking status of positions to 
which an individual has been appointed under 
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section 3330d (relating to appointment of mili-
tary spouses) and the total number of such in-
dividuals in such positions who requested, but 
were denied, telework.’’. 
(3) AGENCY REPORT ON TELEWORKING REDUC-
TION.—Section 6506 of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) NOTIFICATION
FOR
REDUCTION
IN
TELE-
WORKING PARTICIPATION.—Not later than 30 days before 
the date that an executive agency implements or modifies 
a teleworking plan that would reduce the percentage of 
employees at the agency who telework, the head of the ex-
ecutive agency shall provide written notification, including 
a justification for the reduction in telework participation 
and a description of how the agency will pay for any in-
creased costs resulting from that reduction, to— 
‘‘(1) the Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management; 
‘‘(2) the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
of the House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(3) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate.’’. 
(4) 
TECHNICAL
CORRECTION.—Section 
6506(b)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is amend-
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port cost savings achieved through, teleworking related to 
reduced absences, continuity of operations, reduced real 
estate and utility costs, and reduced community costs, 
among other cost savings measures. 
(h) LIMITATION ON REDUCING TELEWORK ELIGI-
BILITY.—An executive agency may not reduce or otherwise 
limit the level of employees at the executive agency eligible 
to telework, or reduce or otherwise limit eligibility for, or 
levels of, teleworking on a uniform, agency-wide basis, 
below such levels in effect at the executive agency on the 
date of enactment of this Act. In this subsection, the 
terms ‘‘executive agency’’ and ‘‘telework’’ have the mean-
ings given such terms in section 6501 of title 5, United 
States Code, as amended by subsection (a) of this section. 
SEC. 3. PUBLICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR OPM DIREC-
TOR. 
The Director of the Office of Personnel Management 
shall— 
(1) publish guidance and standards to assist 
agencies in determining telework eligibility as well as 
guidance to Federal agencies on how agencies are to 
provide to the Office annually qualitative and quan-
titative data on telework use and implementation as 
well as all cost savings achieved through, teleworking 
related to reduced absences, continuity of operations, 
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reduced real estate and utility costs, and reduced 
community costs, among other cost savings meas-
ures; 
(2) publish online, at least annually, the Gov-
ernment-wide data on agency telework use and im-
plementation, including agency use and implementa-
tion of telework as well as data collected on cost sav-
ings; 
(3) not later than 1 year after the date of en-
actment of this Act, submit to Congress a report 
that analyzes persistent barriers to increasing agen-
cy telework across the Federal Government; and 
(4) not later than 1 year after the submission 
of the report under paragraph (3), the Office shall 
offer agencies guidance to help address such bar-
riers. 
SEC. 4. RESPONSIBILITIES OF FEDERAL AGENCIES. 
The Federal Chief Human Capital Officer (or the 
equivalent position) within each executive agency (as that 
term is defined in section 6506(a) of title 5, United States 
Code) shall— 
(1) implement controls to verify that all employ-
ees who supervise other employees have completed 
training on telework availability and implementation 
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described in section 6502(b) and 6503(c) of such 
title, as amended by section 2 of this Act; 
(2) in accordance with section 2(g), provide to 
the Office of Personnel Management, on an annual 
basis, qualitative and quantitative data on telework 
use and implementation as well as all cost savings 
achieved through, teleworking related to reduced ab-
sences, continuity of operations, reduced real estate 
and utility costs, and reduced community costs, 
among other cost savings measures; and 
(3) at least once every year, review all agency 
telework policies and ensure they are in compliance 
with Office standards and guidance as well as with 
Federal law. 
SEC. 5. TELEWORK DATA INTEGRITY ACT. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘Telework Data Integrity Act’’ or the ‘‘TDI Act’’. 
(b) PLAN ON IMPROVING DATA IN OPM ENTERPRISE 
HUMAN RESOURCES INTEGRATION SYSTEM.— 
(1) 
DEVELOPMENT.—Consistent 
with 
rec-
ommendations contained in the report entitled 
‘‘COVID–19: Federal Telework Increased During 
the Pandemic, but More Reliable Data are Needed 
to Support Oversight’’, published by the Government 
Accountability Office on February 8, 2022, the Di-
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rector of the Office of Personnel Management shall 
develop and implement a plan to improve the reli-
ability of data (including telework data) in the En-
terprise Human Resources Integration system (in 
this section referred to as the ‘‘system’’) of the Of-
fice of Personnel Management. Such plan shall— 
(A) provide for consistent monitoring of 
Federal payroll data system-generated error 
and edit check reports, and ensure timely action 
is taken to address identified issues; 
(B) integrate Federal payroll data into the 
system; 
(C) evaluate existing internal control ac-
tivities and develop new internal control activi-
ties for Federal payroll data, including trans-
actional edit checks that leverage information in 
other system datasets; and 
(D) establish phases of implementation of 
the plan, and clear deadlines for the timely 
completion of such phases. 
(2) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director 
shall submit the plan developed under paragraph (1) 
to— 
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(A) the Committee on Oversight and Re-
form of the House of Representatives; 
(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and 
(C) the Government Accountability Office. 
(3) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date the plan is submitted under paragraph 
(2), the Office of Personnel Management shall begin 
to implement such plan. 
Æ 
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