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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2906 
To limit workforce reduction at Federal agencies, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 10, 2025 
Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia (for herself, Mr. RASKIN, Mrs. MCCLAIN DELANEY, 
Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. NORTON, Mr. TONKO, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, 
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. IVEY, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. PETTERSEN, 
Ms. TITUS, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Ms. TLAIB, and Mrs. MCIVER) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To limit workforce reduction at Federal agencies, 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 to Efficiently 
Review Varying Impacts of Cuts to Employment Act’’ or 
the ‘‘SERVICE Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. GAO REVIEW OF FEDERAL WORKFORCE REDUC-
TIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—An agency (as that term is de-
scribed in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 901(b) of title 
31, United States Code) may not remove or otherwise re-
duce the total number of employees at such agency in an 
amount greater than 5 percent of the total amount of em-
ployees at such agency as of the first day of the fiscal 
year during which such action would take place until the 
date that is 210 days after the date that the agency sub-
mits, to the Comptroller General and to the Congress, a 
report containing a thorough analysis of the expected ef-
fects of such action. Each such report shall include the 
following analysis: 
(1) Anticipated financial impacts of the action, 
including an estimate of the net increase or decrease 
in costs associated with the action. Such estimate 
shall include— 
(A) pay and benefits of the employees 
identified for possible termination; 
(B) administrative costs to implement the 
action; and 
(C) if applicable, contracting costs to re-
place functions performed by employees to be 
removed. 
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(2) Anticipated mission-related impacts of the 
action, to include— 
(A) a description of agency job functions, 
offices, and services that would be impacted by 
the action, including detailed information about 
any office whose number of employees would be 
reduced by more than 5 percent; 
(B) current performance information on 
the agency job functions, offices, and services 
that would be impacted by the action; and 
(C) an analysis of how the action would af-
fect the performance of the agency job func-
tions and availability of government services, in-
cluding effects on timeliness and customer expe-
rience. 
(3) The methodological or analytical basis for 
the agency’s conclusions about the effects of the ac-
tion. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the re-
ceiving an agency report under subsection (a), the Comp-
troller General shall submit a report, to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate, and the appropriate committees of jurisdiction 
over the applicable agency, on whether the agency report 
contains all of the required elements, including whether 
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the plan includes information to support the requirement 
in subsection (a)(3), and the extent to which the estimated 
financial and mission-related impacts in the report are 
supported, in the judgment of the Comptroller General, 
by reasonably complete and credible information. The 
Comptroller General shall publish the report submitted to 
such committees on the Government Accountability Of-
fice’s public website. 
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