3.0.0 23 2025-12-05T21:30:16Z 2025-12-05T21:30:16Z Senate S S 2025-01-07 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/23 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-01-07T16:28:53Z DRAIN THE SWAMP Act 119 1280 HR 2025-02-13 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Identical bill CRS 2025-01-07 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2025-01-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK 2025-01-13 False Government Operations and Politics Commuting 2025-02-03T17:19:05Z Computers and information technology 2025-02-03T17:19:12Z Congressional oversight 2025-02-03T17:19:00Z Government buildings, facilities, and property 2025-02-03T17:19:18Z Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management 2025-02-03T17:18:55Z Government Operations and Politics 2025-01-27T22:58:20Z 00 2025-01-07 Introduced in Senate 2025-02-26T22:08:33Z <p><strong>Decentralizing and Reorganizing Agency Infrastructure Nation-wide To Harness Efficient Services, Workforce Administration, and Management Practices Act or the DRAIN THE SWAMP Act</strong></p><p>This bill relocates 30% of&nbsp;employees of executive agencies who are based in the Washington, DC area&nbsp;and reduces the office headquarters of agencies by 30%. It also ends full-time telework for relocated&nbsp;employees and for those who remain based&nbsp;in the DC area.</p><p>Under the bill, each agency must relocate at&nbsp;least 30% of full-time employees based at the agency’s headquarters, including full-time&nbsp;telework employees who receive DC-area locality pay (unless telework is an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act). The bill does not apply to certain essential employees in the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Defense,&nbsp;the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, and the&nbsp;Department of Homeland Security.</p><p>In determining the new duty stations, each agency must promote geographic diversity and ensure adequate staffing throughout the regions of the agency. Compensation for relocated&nbsp;employees must be according to the locality pay scale for their new duty station. Agencies must provide their reduction plans to Congress within 180 days and complete the relocations within one year after the bill's enactment.</p><p>Further, the Office of Management and Budget must&nbsp;identify at least 30% of agency headquarters' office space (i.e., real property) to sell or to cease leasing. Agency heads must complete the space reduction within two years after the bill's enactment.&nbsp;</p> DRAIN THE SWAMP Act Display Title 45 DRAIN THE SWAMP Act 2025-01-16T01:23:17Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 DRAIN THE SWAMP Act 2025-01-16T01:23:16Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Decentralizing and Reorganizing Agency Infrastructure Nation-wide To Harness Efficient Services, Workforce Administration, and Management Practices Act 2025-01-16T01:23:16Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to require the head of each Executive agency to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned to the headquarters of the Executive agency to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, and for other purposes. 2025-01-16T01:18:23Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-01-07T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s23is/xml/BILLS-119s23is.xml 2025-01-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.