Title: PPSA Act of 2022
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Preventing a Patronage System Act of 2022 or the PPSA Act of 2022
This bill prohibits executive agency positions in the competitive service from being placed in the excepted service, unless such positions are placed in Schedules A through E as in effect on September 30, 2020. The bill also prohibits positions in the excepted service from being placed in any schedule other than the aforementioned schedules.
On October 21, 2020, former President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service. The order placed executive agency positions that are of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character, and that are not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition, under a new schedule in the excepted service (Schedule F) instead of the competitive service. The order also required any such positions in the excepted service to be reclassified to Schedule F. The order was revoked by President Joe Biden on January 22, 2021.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4702 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4702

 To impose limits on excepting competitive service positions from the 
              competitive service, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 2, 2022

Mr. Kaine (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
Warner, and Mr. Padilla) introduced the following bill; which was read 
     twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                          Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To impose limits on excepting competitive service positions from the 
              competitive service, 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 ``Preventing a Patronage System Act of 
2022'' or the ``PPSA Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON EXCEPTION OF COMPETITIVE SERVICE POSITIONS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 5, United 
States Code, no position in the competitive service (as defined in 
section 2102 of that title) may be excepted from the competitive 
service unless that position is placed--
            (1) in any of schedules A through E, as described in 
        section 6.2 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, as in 
        effect on September 30, 2020; and
            (2) under the terms and conditions under part 6 of title 5, 
        Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on September 30, 
        2020.
    (b) Subsequent Transfers.--Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 5, 
United States Code, no position in the excepted service (as defined in 
section 2103 of that title) may be placed in any schedule other than a 
schedule described in subsection (a)(1).
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