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119-hr-202119th Congress

Commission to Relocate the Federal Bureaucracy Act

Sponsored By: Representative Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]

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Summary

Creates a commission to study moving nonsecurity federal agencies out of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The commission would recommend which agencies to relocate and identify suitable U.S. locations based on cost, infrastructure, industry ties, and workforce patterns.

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  • Federal leadership. A panel made up of senior officials from the White House Presidential Personnel Office, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller General, cabinet secretaries, the EPA administrator, and the FDA commissioner would direct the study.
  • Federal workforce. The commission must consider whether a sizeable portion of an agency's workforce participated in telework during the five-year period before enactment when choosing candidates for relocation.
  • Communities and costs. Recommendations must weigh financial efficiency, whether an area has below-average cost of living, available private land, and pre-existing infrastructure.
  • Congressional deadline. The commission would submit a report with relocation recommendations to Congress within one year.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Study on moving federal agencies

If enacted, this would create a Commission to study moving non-security federal agencies out of the Washington, D.C. area. The President would decide which agencies are security-related and excluded. Senior officials from OMB, OPM, GAO, many Cabinet departments, EPA, and FDA would serve. The Commission would report to Congress within 1 year of enactment. It would weigh cost of living, local infrastructure and private land, related local industries, and whether many staff teleworked in the last 5 years. The D.C. metro area would mean D.C.; Montgomery and Prince George’s (MD); and Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Alexandria (VA).

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]

NY • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

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