SHOW UP Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Rep. Comer, James [R-KY-1]
Introduced
Summary
Reinstate pre-pandemic federal telework rules and block most new telework expansions for Executive agencies. Agencies would have to return to the telework levels in effect on December 31, 2019 and secure Office of Personnel Management approval before expanding remote work.
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- Federal employees: Many workers would be limited to the same telework access they had on December 31, 2019, with no expansion until an agency plan is certified.
- Agencies: Each agency would have 30 days to adopt pre‑pandemic policies and 6 months to submit a study and any expansion plan to Congress that analyzes mission impacts, underused property costs, secure network capacity, and personnel dispersal.
- Oversight and approvals: The OPM Director must certify that any expansion will improve mission performance and customer service, substantially reduce property or locality pay costs, and ensure secure networks and tools without materially increasing overall costs; agencies may revise and resubmit plans if not certified.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Return federal telework to 2019 levels
Executive agencies would have 30 days after enactment to go back to the telework rules they had on December 31, 2019. They would not be able to allow more telework than that. Agencies could only expand later if they send a plan to Congress and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management certifies it.
Approval required to expand telework
Within 6 months, each agency would have to send Congress a study of pandemic telework’s effects. The study would cover mission and customer service impacts, costs from unused buildings, locality pay errors, network security and equipment gaps, and workforce spread. Any plan to expand telework beyond 2019 levels would have to be included. The OPM Director would have to certify the plan improves service, cuts property and locality‑pay costs, and ensures secure tools and data access without big new costs. Agencies could resubmit until certified.
Who is covered by telework rules
The bill would define key terms. It would apply to Executive agencies, but not the Government Accountability Office. It would define the OPM Director as the certifying official. It would use existing law for locality pay and say telework includes remote work.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rep. Comer, James [R-KY-1]
KY • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
LA • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Timmons
SC • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Cloud, Michael [R-TX-27]
TX • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
NC • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Langworthy
NY • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Crane
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Palmer, Gary J. [R-AL-6]
AL • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
McGuire
VA • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
WI • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Fallon, Pat [R-TX-4]
TX • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Burlison, Eric [R-MO-7]
MO • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Sessions
TX • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Jack
GA • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Burchett, Tim [R-TN-2]
TN • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-CO-4]
CO • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Perry
PA • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Greene (GA)
GA • R
Sponsored 1/16/2025
Donalds
FL • R
Sponsored 1/31/2025
Rep. Fry, Russell [R-SC-7]
SC • R
Sponsored 1/31/2025
Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-2]
MI • R
Sponsored 1/31/2025
Edwards
NC • R
Sponsored 1/31/2025
Ellzey
TX • R
Sponsored 1/31/2025
Roll Call Votes
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