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119-hr-2455119th CongressWALLET

Special Government Employees Transparency Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Min, Dave [D-CA-47]

Introduced

Summary

130-day cap on service as a special Government employee (SGE) is paired with a public, searchable SGE database and required release of certain financial disclosures. The bill would limit long stretches of temporary service and make SGE appointments, pay, and interests easier for the public to see.

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  • Workers who serve as SGEs would stop being SGEs after 130 days of service in any 365-day period. If an individual exceeds that limit, the agency must decide a new civil service classification within 30 days and notify the person of appeal rights.
  • Executive agencies would have to notify the Office of Personnel Management within 30 days of any appointment, conversion, or termination of a covered SGE and keep records current. The OPM Director would audit compliance and report to Congress within 3 years.
  • The bill would create a public, searchable SGE Database on OPM’s website with fields like name, position title, pay rate, employing agency, and appointment and termination dates. It would also require public posting of covered SGEs’ financial disclosure reports, with exceptions for certain defense or exempt filings.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.

Public database of special government employees

This bill would require OPM to launch a free, public, searchable database of covered special government employees within 210 days of enactment. It would list each person’s name, job title, basic pay rate (if any), agency and office, start date, and end date if any. Agencies would need to report hires, conversions, and terminations within 30 days and review their data. The site would offer an API and meet Section 508 and current web accessibility standards. OPM would audit submissions and report to Congress within three years.

130-day cap on special government employee service

This bill would limit service as a special government employee to 130 days in any 365-day period. A day would count if you did more than 1 hour of admin tasks, did any non-admin work, or got paid for SGE work. If you pass 130 days, your SGE status would end. Your agency would have 30 days after that to set your new job classification, apply the right personnel rules, and give you written notice with appeal rights.

Public posting of special government employee financial reports

This bill would require agencies to make public the financial disclosure reports that covered special government employees file after enactment. Posting would follow the procedures in 5 U.S.C. 13107. The rule would not cover reports listed in 5 U.S.C. 13107(a)(1) or (2), reports from SGEs who are not covered SGEs, or reports with national defense information.

Who counts as a covered special government employee

This bill would define who is a special government employee and who is a covered SGE for transparency rules. You would be a covered SGE only if you are not on an advisory committee, your duties are like GS‑11 or higher, and you are not in a student-only civil service role. It would include the Executive Office of the President in the agency list and use existing legal terms for advisory committees and national defense information. It would also exclude three specified entities from the advisory committee definition.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Min, Dave [D-CA-47]

CA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]

    VA • D

    Sponsored 3/27/2025

  • Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 3/27/2025

  • Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]

    DC • D

    Sponsored 3/27/2025

  • Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]

    CA • D

    Sponsored 3/31/2025

  • Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 3/31/2025

  • Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 6/24/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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