PPS Act

Bill: 116-hr-9052
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2020-12-28
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee hiring

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Labor-management relations
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Preventing a Patronage System Act or the PPS Act</b></p> <p>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.</p> <p>On October 21, 2020, the President issued an executive order titled <i>Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service</i>. The order places 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 requires any such positions in the excepted service to be reclassified to Schedule F.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9052 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 28, 2020 Mr. Connolly introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To impose limits on excepting competitive service positions from the competitive service, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing a Patronage System Act or the PPS Act . 2. Limitations on exception of competitive service positions (a) In general No position in the competitive service (as defined under section 2102 of title 5, United States Code) may be excepted from the competitive service unless such position is placed— (1) in any of the 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 such title as in effect on such date. (b) Subsequent transfers No position in the excepted service (as defined under section 2103 of title 5, United States Code) may be placed in any schedule other than a schedule described in subsection (a)(1).