H.R. 1511 · 119th Congress
REDUCE Act
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Reducing Expensive Departments & Unnecessary Civil Employees Act or the REDUCE Act
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Feb 21, 2025
Reducing Expensive Departments & Unnecessary Civil Employees Act or the REDUCE Act
This bill limits federal hiring and requires each federal agency to establish plans to eliminate or combine components of the agency. The bill does not apply to positions or agency components that are critical to national security, public safety, law enforcement, or immigration enforcement.
Specifically, a federal agency may not appoint more than one employee for every four employees that retire, transfer, or separate from such agency. This limitation does not apply after the agency has reduced the number of its employees by 20%.
The bill also requires each agency to determine which agency components should be eliminated or combined and develop a plan to bring this into effect through reorganization or reduction in force.
Each agency must conduct a review of each position within the agency to identify positions that are redundant or unnecessary and report the results of this review to Congress.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: REDUCE Act
Also known as: Reducing Expensive Departments & Unnecessary Civil Employees Act
Latest action (Feb 21, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics · Origin: House · Introduced: Feb 21, 2025
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.