United States HR 5749: Official Time Reporting Act

Bill Text

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119TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 5749
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the Office of Personnel
Management submit an annual report to Congress relating to the use
of official time by Federal employees.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 14, 2025
Ms. FOXX (for herself, Mr. COMER, and Mr. PALMER) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform
A BILL
To amend title 5, United States Code, to require that the
Office of Personnel Management submit an annual report
to Congress relating to the use of official time by Federal
employees.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Official Time Report-4
ing Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 1
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 7131 of title 5, United 2
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-3
lowing new subsection: 4
‘‘(e)(1)(A) Not later than March 31 of each calendar 5
year, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, 6
in consultation with the Director of the Office of Manage-7
ment and Budget, shall submit to the Committee on Over-8
sight and Government Reform of the House of Represent-9
atives and Committee on Homeland Security and Govern-10
mental Affairs of the Senate, and make publicly available 11
on a website of the Office of Personnel Management, a 12
report covering the activities under this section during the 13
most recently completed fiscal year prior to such calendar 14
year, including each explanation submitted to the Director 15
under subparagraph (C) and summarizing information re-16
ceived under subparagraph (B). 17
‘‘(B) Not later than December 31 of each cal-18
endar year, the head of each agency shall submit to 19
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 20
the information which the Director requires, with re-21
spect to such agency, for purposes of the report 22
which is next due under subparagraph (A) in accord-23
ance with the guidance issued by the Director, in-24
cluding any standardized format for the submission 25
of such information included in such guidance. 26
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‘‘(C) If the average aggregate official time rate 1
of an agency for a fiscal year is greater than the av-2
erage aggregate official time rate for such agency 3
for the previous fiscal year, the head of such agency 4
shall include an explanation for such increase in the 5
information submitted to the Director of the Office 6
of Personnel Management under subparagraph (B) 7
for the purposes of the report required under sub-8
paragraph (A) covering such fiscal year. 9
‘‘(2) Each report submitted by the Director of the 10
Office of Personnel Management under paragraph (1)(A) 11
shall include, with respect to the fiscal year covered by 12
the report, the following information: 13
‘‘(A) The total amount of official time granted 14
to employees. 15
‘‘(B) The average amount of official time ex-16
pended per employee in a bargaining unit and the 17
total number of employees in a bargaining unit. 18
‘‘(C) For each agency, the average aggregate 19
official time rate. 20
‘‘(D) The agency or subdivision of an agency in 21
which employees in a bargaining unit are employed. 22
‘‘(E) The total amount withheld from the pay 23
of employees in a bargaining unit using the payroll 24
systems of agencies for the payment of the regular 25
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and periodic dues of the exclusive representative of 1
the unit, and the total number of such employees 2
that paid such dues through such payroll systems. 3
‘‘(F) The specific types of activities or purposes 4
for which official time was granted, and the effects 5
on agency operations of such grants of official time 6
for such activities or purposes. 7
‘‘(G) The total number of employees to whom 8
official time was granted and the number of such 9
employees who as an employee, engaged in only ac-10
tivities or purposes involving the use of official time. 11
‘‘(H) The amount paid by the Federal Govern-12
ment to employees granted official time with respect 13
to the activities or purposes for which such employ-14
ees were granted such official time, disaggregated by 15
the costs of the compensation and fringe benefits of 16
such employees and any travel, per diem, or other 17
expense. 18
‘‘(I) For each agency, a description of any room 19
or space designated at the agency (or its subcompo-20
nent) as a room or space where employees of the 21