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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4207 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to direct the Director of the Office 
of Personnel Management to make publicly available demographic infor-
mation regarding political appointees, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 28, 2021 
Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ (for herself, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, and Mrs. CAROLYN 
B. MALONEY of New York) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform 
A BILL 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to direct the Director 
of the Office of Personnel Management to make publicly 
available demographic information regarding political ap-
pointees, 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 ‘‘Political Appointments 
Inclusion and Diversity Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ON POLITICAL APPOINTEES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘§ 3330f. Availability of demographic data on political 
appointees 
‘‘(a) PUBLICATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently than 
one year after the date of enactment of this section 
and not less than annually thereafter, the Director 
of the Office of Personnel Management, in coordina-
tion with the White House Office of Presidential 
Personnel, shall publish a report on the public 
website of the Office that contains summary level in-
formation on the demographics of appointees. 
‘‘(2) DATA.—Any report published under para-
graph (1) shall provide such information in a struc-
tured data format that is searchable, sortable, and 
downloadable, makes use of common identifiers 
wherever possible, and contains current and histor-
ical data regarding such information. 
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Each report published 
under subsection (a) shall include self-identified data 
on race, ethnicity, tribal affiliation, gender, dis-
ability, sexual orientation, veteran status, and 
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whether the appointee is over the age of 40 with re-
spect to each type of appointee. Such a report shall 
allow for users of the Office’s website to view the 
type of appointee by agency or component, along 
with these self-identified data, alone and in combina-
tion, to the greatest level detail possible without al-
lowing the identification of individual appointees. 
‘‘(2) OPTION
TO
NOT
SPECIFY.—When col-
lecting each category of data described in paragraph 
(1), each appointee shall be allowed an option to not 
specify with respect to any such category. 
‘‘(3) CONSULTATION.—The Director of the Of-
fice of Personnel Management shall consult with the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate re-
garding reports published under this section and the 
information in such reports to determine whether 
the intent of this section is being fulfilled and if ad-
ditional information or other changes are needed for 
such reports. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘agency’ means— 
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‘‘(A) any Executive agency, the United 
States Postal Service, and the Postal Regu-
latory Commission; 
‘‘(B) the Architect of the Capitol, the Gov-
ernment Accountability Office, the Government 
Publishing Office, and the Library of Congress; 
and 
‘‘(C) the Executive Office of the President 
and any component within such Office (includ-
ing any successor component), including— 
‘‘(i) the Council of Economic Advi-
sors; 
‘‘(ii) the Council on Environmental 
Quality; 
‘‘(iii) the National Security Council; 
‘‘(iv) the Office of the Vice President; 
‘‘(v) the Office of Policy Development; 
‘‘(vi) the Office of Administration; 
‘‘(vii) the Office of Management and 
Budget; 
‘‘(viii) the Office of the United States 
Trade Representative; 
‘‘(ix) the Office of Science and Tech-
nology Policy; 
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‘‘(x) the Office of National Drug Con-
trol Policy; and 
‘‘(xi) the White House Office, includ-
ing the White House Office of Presidential 
Personnel; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘appointee’— 
‘‘(A) means an individual serving in a pol-
icy and supporting position at an agency; and 
‘‘(B) includes an individual serving in such 
a position temporarily in an acting capacity in 
accordance with— 
‘‘(i) sections 3345 through 3349d 
(commonly referred to as the ‘Federal Va-
cancies Reform Act of 1998’); 
‘‘(ii) any other statutory provision de-
scribed in section 3347(a)(1); or 
‘‘(iii) a Presidential appointment de-
scribed in section 3347(a)(2); and 
‘‘(3) the term ‘policy and supporting position’ 
means— 
‘‘(A) a position that requires appointment 
by the President, by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate; 
‘‘(B) a position that requires or permits 
appointment by the President or Vice Presi-
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