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H.R. 8711 116th Congress House

Federal Workforce Accountability and Modernization Act

Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to codify Executive Order 13957 entitled "Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service", and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 4, 2020 See on congress.gov
Government Operations and Politics Employment discrimination and employee rightsGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel managementLabor-management relations
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 Latest action October 30, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Federal Workforce Accountability and Modernization Act

This bill provides statutory authority for the executive order titled Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service, which was issued on October 21, 2020. 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, in the excepted service instead of the competitive service.

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Perry, Scott
Pennsylvania · Dec 4, 2020
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Steube, W. Gregory
Florida · Dec 4, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8711: Federal Workforce Accountability and Modernization Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8711/
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"H.R. 8711: Federal Workforce Accountability and Modernization Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-8711/.
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