Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The bill requires Federal agencies to conduct a benefit-cost analysis, using OMB Circular A-4 principles, before carrying out large "covered relocations" of positions outside employees' commuting areas. Agencies must submit an unredacted analysis to their Office of Inspector General, which reviews it and provides a congressional report within 90 days; agencies must also publish a redacted public version.
Progressives emphasize worker protections and transparency
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly structured administrative/operational measure that prescribes specific analytic and reporting steps for significant federal relocations and embeds OIG and congressional oversight.
The bill requires Federal agencies to conduct a benefit-cost analysis, using OMB Circular A-4 principles, before carrying out large "covered relocations" of positions outside employees' commuting areas.
Agencies must submit an unredacted analysis to their Office of Inspector General, which reviews it and provides a congressional report within 90 days; agencies must also publish a redacted public version.
The analysis must include anticipated outcomes, metrics, employee engagement, stakeholder assessments, implementation plans, risk mitigation, and mission impact.
Technocratic transparency bill with modest burdens; probable House success but Senate hurdles and possible executive-branch resistance reduce overall odds.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly structured administrative/operational measure that prescribes specific analytic and reporting steps for significant federal relocations and embeds OIG and congressional oversight. It is strong on mechanism specification and legal integration but less so on resourcing, handling of edge cases, and enforcement.
Progressives emphasize worker protections and transparency
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize worker protections and transparency
Likely supportive overall because the bill increases transparency, oversight, and worker protections around large relocations.
They will view required employee engagement, stakeholder assessment, and public reporting as protections against harmful, unaccountable moves.
They may seek stronger worker-centered provisions, but see the measure as a positive accountability tool.
Generally favorable to increased accountability but cautious about added cost and delay.
Appreciates standardized benefit-cost analysis and OIG review, while wanting clear timelines and limits to prevent operational paralysis.
Will weigh administrative burden against public-interest transparency.
Likely skeptical or opposed because it adds federal oversight and procedural hurdles to agency management.
Views the bill as expanding bureaucracy and potentially obstructing cost-saving or decentralizing relocations.
May concede the value of transparency but object to congressional micromanagement of operations.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
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Still ahead
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Technocratic transparency bill with modest burdens; probable House success but Senate hurdles and possible executive-branch resistance reduce overall odds.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize worker protections and transparency
Technocratic transparency bill with modest burdens; probable House success but Senate hurdles and possible executive-branch resistance redu…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly structured administrative/operational measure that prescribes specific analytic and reporting steps for significant federal relocations and embeds OIG an…
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