# 119-hr-2905: Ensuring Agency Service Quality Act

119-hr-2905, Ensuring Agency Service Quality Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5] (D-GA); status introduced (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-2905
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Agency Service Quality Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-04-10
- Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5] (D-GA)
- Cosponsors: 16
- Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Mandatory employment levels for Executive agencies and military departments.** This bill would require each Executive agency and military department to employ the number of workers in each class recognized by Chapter 51 of Title 5 and would override sections 3104 and 5108. - Agency leaders must notify the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and every congressional committee with jurisdiction within 7 days after determining the agency or department cannot meet the required staffing and must explain the reasons. - Congress would receive those written notices of staffing shortfalls, creating a new external accountability mechanism for agency and military department staffing decisions.

## Cosponsors (16)

- Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8] (D-MD), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McClain Delaney, April [D-MD-6] (D-MD), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McClellan, Jennifer L. [D-VA-4] (D-VA), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20] (D-NY), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2] (D-LA), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-25] (D-FL), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ivey, Glenn [D-MD-4] (D-MD), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7] (D-CO), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1] (D-NV), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29] (D-TX), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] (D-MI), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McIver, LaMonica [D-NJ-10] (D-NJ), 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] (D-OR), 2025-04-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Stansbury, Melanie A. [D-NM-1] (D-NM), 2025-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36] (D-CA), 2025-06-03T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- New staffing rules for agencies and military: benefit, high. If enacted, federal agencies and military departments would be required to keep enough staff under federal job classes. If a leader decides the agency cannot meet these staffing levels, they would have to tell Congress within seven days and explain why. The notice would go to the House and Senate A…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act
- 119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-2905 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2905)

## Related
- [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853)
- [119-hr-51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-51)
- [119-hr-20: Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-20)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2905 (as of 2025-12-21).