# 2025-10067: OPM Proposes a Faster Route Through Federal Employee Fitness Checks

2025-10067, Suitability and Fitness, is a Federal Register proposed rule from Personnel Management Office published 2025-06-03, effective Comments must be received on or before July 3, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-27).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10067
- As of: 2026-10-27
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-10067
- Title: Suitability and Fitness
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: Personnel Management Office
- Citation: 90 FR 23467
- Published: 2025-06-03
- Effective: Comments must be received on or before July 3, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: 3206-AO84
- Last updated: 2026-10-27

## In one line

OPM Proposes a Faster Route Through Federal Employee Fitness Checks

## Summary

The Office of Personnel Management wants to update how it checks if people are fit to work for the federal government. These changes will speed up the process and make sure anyone who breaks serious rules on the job faces the same checks as new hires. If you have thoughts, speak up by July 3, 2025—this could affect current and future federal employees and how quickly decisions get made.

## Abstract

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing amendments to the Federal Government personnel vetting adjudicative processes for determining suitability and taking suitability actions. The purpose of the proposed rule is to improve the efficiency, rigor and timeliness by which OPM and agencies vet individuals for risk to the integrity and efficiency of the service, and to make clear that individuals who engage in serious misconduct while employed in Federal service are subject to the same suitability procedures and actions as applicants for employment.

## Effects PRIA read

- OPM Can Remove Employees for New Reasons: cost, high. You could be subject to OPM-led removal if you are an employee or appointee in the competitive service or career Senior Executive Service and your post-appointment conduct matches any suitability factor in 5 CFR 731.202. Agencies must refer such cases to OPM for final suitability determinations and…
- New Specific Misconduct Criteria Added: cost, medium. The rule would add specific examples and criteria to suitability determinations, including theft or misuse (or negligent loss) of government resources, refusal to certify or adhere to nondisclosure obligations, refusal to furnish testimony as required by 5 CFR 5.4, failure to comply with legal obli…
- Faster OPM-Directed Removals — Five Workdays: cost, high. If OPM decides to take a suitability action that requires removal, OPM will direct the employing agency to remove the individual and the agency must remove the employee within five workdays of receiving OPM's decision. Agencies must refer cases based on continuous vetting or other post-appointment…
- Estimated Government Costs and Savings: benefit, medium. OPM estimates one-time government-wide implementation costs of about $3.1 million and recurring annual net savings of about $35.7 million. OPM estimates per-agency first-year costs of about $38,690, potential annual savings from fewer Chapter 75 removals of about $40.2 million, and anticipates hiri…

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## Sources
- [2025-10067 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/03/2025-10067/suitability-and-fitness)
- [2025-10067 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-03/pdf/2025-10067.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10067 (as of 2026-10-27).