I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 473 
To restore in-person work at Federal agencies to not less than pre-pandemic 
levels, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 16, 2025 
Mr. COMER (for himself, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. BIGGS 
of Arizona, Mr. CLOUD, Ms. FOXX, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. CRANE, Mr. 
PALMER, Mr. MCGUIRE, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. FALLON, Mr. BURLISON, 
Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. JACK, Mr. BURCHETT, Ms. BOEBERT, Mr. PERRY, 
and Ms. GREENE of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To restore in-person work at Federal agencies to not less 
than pre-pandemic levels, 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 Home Office 
Work’s Unproductive Problems Act of 2025’’ or the 
‘‘SHOW UP Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT OF PRE-PANDEMIC TELEWORK 
POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EX-
ECUTIVE AGENCIES. 
Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, each agency shall adopt and apply telework 
policies, practices, and levels at the agency that are equiv-
alent to, or otherwise permit no additional levels of 
telework than, those which were in effect on December 31, 
2019, and may not expand any such policy, practice, or 
level until the date that an agency plan is submitted to 
Congress with a certification by the Director of the Office 
of Personnel Management under section 3. 
SEC. 3. STUDY, PLAN, AND CERTIFICATION REGARDING EX-
ECUTIVE 
AGENCY 
TELEWORK 
POLICIES, 
PRACTICES, AND LEVELS FOR EXECUTIVE 
AGENCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency, 
in consultation with the Director, shall submit to Con-
gress— 
(1) a study on the impacts on the agency and 
its mission of expanding telework by its employees 
during the SARS–CoV–2 pandemic that commenced 
in 2019 and maintaining such expanded telework 
thereafter, including an analysis of— 
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(A) any adverse impacts of that expansion 
on the agency’s performance of its mission, in-
cluding the performance of customer service by 
the agency; 
(B) any costs to the agency during that ex-
pansion attributable to— 
(i) owning, leasing, or maintaining un-
derutilized real property; or 
(ii) paying higher rates of locality pay 
to teleworking employees as a result of in-
correctly classifying such employees as 
teleworkers rather than remote workers; 
(C) any degree to which the agency failed 
during that expansion to provide teleworking 
employees with secure network capacity, com-
munications tools, necessary and secure access 
to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 
records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 
such employee to be fully productive; 
(D) any degree to which that expansion fa-
cilitated dispersal of the agency workforce 
around the Nation; and 
(E) any other impacts of that expansion 
that the agency or the Director considers ap-
propriate; 
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(2) any agency plan to expand telework policies, 
practices, or levels beyond those in place as a result 
of section 2; and 
(3) a certification by the Director that such 
plan will— 
(A) have a substantial positive effect on— 
(i) the performance of the agency’s 
mission, including the performance of cus-
tomer service; 
(ii) increasing the level of dispersal of 
agency personnel throughout the Nation; 
and 
(iii) the reversal of any adverse im-
pact set forth pursuant to paragraph 
(1)(D); 
(B) substantially lower the agency’s costs 
of owning, leasing, or maintaining real prop-
erty; 
(C) substantially lower the agency’s costs 
attributable to paying locality pay to agency 
personnel working from locations outside the 
pay locality of their position’s official worksite; 
and 
(D) ensure that teleworking employees will 
be provided with secure network capacity, com-
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munications tools, necessary and secure access 
to appropriate agency data assets and Federal 
records, and equipment sufficient to enable each 
such employee to be fully productive, without 
substantially increasing the agency’s overall 
costs for secure network capacity, communica-
tions tools, and equipment. 
(b) LIMITATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—An agency may not imple-
ment the plan submitted under subsection (a)(2) un-
less a certification by the Director was issued under 
subsection (a)(3). 
(2) SUBSEQUENT PLANS.—In the event an ini-
tial agency plan submitted under subsection (a)(2) 
fails to receive such certification, the agency may 
submit to the Director subsequent plans until such 
certification is received, and submit such plan and 
certification to Congress. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘agency’’ has the meaning given 
the term ‘‘Executive agency’’ in section 105 of title 
5, United States Code, except that such term does 
not include the Government Accountability Office; 
(2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the Office of Personnel Management; 
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(3) the term ‘‘locality pay’’ means locality pay 
provided for under section 5304 or 5304a of such 
title; and 
(4) the terms ‘‘telework’’ and ‘‘teleworking’’ 
have the meaning given those terms in section 6501 
of such title, and include remote work. 
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