END the DEEP STATE Act

Bill: 118-hr-6558
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
Introduced: 2023-12-01
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Latest action: action_date: 2023-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-12-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Enabling Necessary Discipline with the Defense of Executives’ Endeavors to Properly Staff Their Agencies with Trustworthy Employees Act or the END the DEEP STATE Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management to withdraw the proposed rule titled <em>Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles</em> and published on&nbsp;September 18, 2023. The bill also prohibits further action to finalize, implement, or enforce the same or a substantially similar rule.&nbsp;</p><p>The proposed rule addresses civil service protections for federal employees. Among other things, the proposed&nbsp;rule </p><ul><li>provides that federal employees shall not lose their status or civil service protections when they involuntarily leave the competitive service to enter the excepted service or move between positions in the excepted service;&nbsp;</li><li>establishes related procedures that apply when moving to these positions; and  &nbsp;</li><li>specifies that the phrase <em>confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or </em><em>policy-advocating, </em>which is used to describe certain positions that are excepted from civil service protections, is intended to apply to noncareer, political appointments.&nbsp;</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6558 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 1, 2023 Mr. Ogles (for himself, Mr. Jackson of Texas , Mr. Cloud , Mr. Brecheen , Mr. Duncan , Mr. Burlison , Mr. Alford , Mr. Clyde , Mr. LaMalfa , Mr. Good of Virginia , Ms. Boebert , and Mr. Perry ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability A BILL To prohibit the issuance of the rule entitled Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles or any successor rule.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Enabling Necessary Discipline with the Defense of Executives’ Endeavors to Properly Staff Their Agencies with Trustworthy Employees Act or the END the DEEP STATE Act . 2. Withdrawal of proposed rule The Director of the Office of Personnel Management— (1) shall withdraw the proposed rule titled Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles (88 Federal Register 63862 (September 18, 2023)); and (2) may not take any action to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule described in paragraph (1) or any substantially similar rule.