[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1128 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1128

    To achieve payroll and workforce reductions within the Federal 
       Government through management incentives and other means.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 1993

   Mr. Santorum (for himself, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, and Mr. 
  Doolittle) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                                 A BILL


 
    To achieve payroll and workforce reductions within the Federal 
       Government through management incentives and other means.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Workforce Efficiency Act''.

SEC. 2. EMPLOYMENT LIMITATION.

    Effective as of the first day of the first fiscal year beginning 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the total number of 
civilian employees in an Executive agency may not exceed the total 
number of civilian employees in such agency as of the last day of the 
fiscal year in which this Act is enacted.

SEC. 3. MEASURES TO IMPROVE AGENCY EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to encourage 
managerial and supervisory personnel in Executive agencies to take 
imaginative, proactive measures to improve the levels of worker 
efficiency and productivity within their organizational units.
    (b) Programs to Achieve Purpose.--In order to carry out the purpose 
of this section, the head of each Executive agency shall by regulation 
establish a program which shall provide for--
            (1) cash awards for any managerial or supervisory personnel 
        whose suggestions, actions, or other personal efforts directly 
        result in significant savings to the Government, but only to 
        the extent that such savings are attributable to reductions in 
        personnel or increased personnel efficiency;
            (2) education or training for managerial or supervisory 
        personnel to promote better awareness and use of the 
        authorities available to them to improve worker efficiency and 
        productivity, including demotions and other adverse personnel 
        actions, when appropriate; and
            (3) other similar measures.
    (c) Limitation.--(1) An award under subsection (b)(1) may not 
exceed 25 percent of the total savings attributable to the suggestion, 
action, or other personal effort to which it relates.
    (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the savings which might be 
achieved as a result of any suggestion, action, or other effort to 
which the award relates may be calculated only for the 12-month period 
following initial implementation of the suggestion, action, or other 
effort.
    (d) Reports.--(1) The head of each Executive agency shall submit to 
Congress, in writing, an annual report on the progress of each element 
of the program established within such agency under this section, 
including the number of awards granted, the savings achieved, and the 
extent of any personnel reductions effected, during the period covered 
by the report.
    (2) In addition to the reports under paragraph (1), each agency 
head shall make available to affected managerial and supervisory 
personnel, appropriate reports relating to the cash awards described in 
subsection (b)(1). Such reports shall be prepared at least quarterly 
and shall be provided in a manner that encourages participation and 
recognizes achievement.

SEC. 4. REDUCTION OF PERSONNEL COSTS.

    In each annual budget prepared by the head of an Executive agency 
for inclusion in the President's budget submission under section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, beginning with the February 
1994 submission, and for each of the 2 ensuing fiscal years, the total 
amount included in such budget for employee salaries shall be reduced 
by 5 percent from the corresponding amount in the previous fiscal year.

SEC. 5. DEFINITION.

    For the purpose of this Act, the term ``Executive agency'' has the 
meaning given that term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, 
excluding the Department of Defense.

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