Title: Cutting Useless and Redundant Bureaucrats (CURB) Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Cutting Useless and Redundant Bureaucrats (CURB) Act
This bill specifies that if a law is enacted requiring an executive branch agency to consolidate or eliminate a program or project, then the agency must: (1) identify the number of agency full-time employees who worked on or administered the eliminated or consolidated program, (2) reduce its workforce by that number of full-time employees, and (3) report to Congress on the workforce reduction.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4623 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4623

To require each Executive agency to reduce the workforce of the agency 
    after the enactment of a law that requires the consolidation or 
 elimination of a program or project within the agency, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 2017

  Mr. Rokita introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To require each Executive agency to reduce the workforce of the agency 
    after the enactment of a law that requires the consolidation or 
 elimination of a program or project within the agency, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Cutting Useless and Redundant 
Bureaucrats (CURB) Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF EXECUTIVE AGENCY STAFF DUE TO MANDATED 
              CONSOLIDATION OR ELIMINATION OF PROGRAMS.

    In any case in which a law is enacted that requires the 
consolidation or elimination of a program or project within an 
Executive agency (as defined in section 105 of title 5, United States 
Code), the head of such agency shall--
            (1) not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
        such law, identify the number of agency full-time equivalent 
        employees who worked on or administered each program or project 
        of the agency authorized under Federal law, as such program or 
        project was in effect on the day before such date, and publish 
        such information on the agency's website;
            (2) not later than 60 days after such date, identify the 
        number of full-time equivalent employees who worked on or 
        administered each such program or project, as such program or 
        project was in effect on the day before such date, that has 
        been eliminated or consolidated since such date;
            (3) not later than 1 year after such date, reduce the 
        workforce of the agency by the number of full-time equivalent 
        employees the agency identified under paragraph (2); and
            (4) not later than 1 year after such date, report to the 
        Congress on--
                    (A) the number of full-time equivalent employees 
                associated with each program or project authorized 
                under Federal law and administered by the agency;
                    (B) the number of full-time equivalent employees 
                who were determined to be associated with eliminated or 
                consolidated programs or projects described in 
                paragraph (2);
                    (C) how the head of the agency has reduced the 
                number of full-time equivalent employees as described 
                in paragraph (3);
                    (D) the average salary of the full-time equivalent 
                employees described in subparagraph (B) whose positions 
                were eliminated; and
                    (E) the average salary of the full-time equivalent 
                employees who work on or administer a program or 
                project authorized under Federal law, disaggregated by 
                employee function within each such program or project.
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