Title: FALSE Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federal Actors Lying Should be Eliminated Act or the FALSE Act
This bill requires the removal of federal employees who knowingly and willfully make false statements to the government, misappropriate funds, or enter inaccurate information into the government's public spending website (USAspending.gov).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 191 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 191

   To require the removal of Federal employees who engage in certain 
                                actions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 3, 2021

   Ms. Ernst introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
   To require the removal of Federal employees who engage in certain 
                                actions.

    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 ``Federal Actors Lying Should be 
Eliminated Act'' or the ``FALSE Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Becomes final.--The term ``becomes final'' means, with 
        respect to a sustained complaint--
                    (A) that--
                            (i) there is a final agency action; and
                            (ii)(I) the time for seeking judicial 
                        review of the final agency action has lapsed 
                        and judicial review has not been sought; or
                            (II) judicial review of the final agency 
                        action was sought and final judgment has been 
                        entered upholding the agency action; or
                    (B) that final judgment has been entered in a civil 
                or criminal action.
            (2) Civil service.--The term ``civil service'' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 2101 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
            (3) Covered employee.--The term ``covered employee'' means 
        an employee with respect to whom there is a sustained complaint 
        that becomes final.
            (4) Employee.--The term ``employee'' means an individual 
        occupying a position in the civil service.
            (5) Sustained complaint.--The term ``sustained complaint'' 
        means an administrative or judicial determination that an 
        employee engaged in any of the following actions:
                    (A) The employee violated section 1001 of title 18, 
                United States Code.
                    (B) The employee knowingly and willfully--
                            (i) violated section 1301(a) of title 31, 
                        United States Code; or
                            (ii) caused such section 1301(a) to be 
                        violated.
                    (C) The employee knowingly and willfully entered 
                inaccurate data into the website established under 
                section 2(b) of the Federal Funding Accountability and 
                Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note).
    (b) Removal Required.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the head of an agency, office, or other entity employing a covered 
employee shall, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing, remove 
the covered employee.
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