All Roll Calls
Yes: 402 • No: 0
119-hr-3425119th Congress
Personnel Oversight and Shift Tracking Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Kennedy, Mike [R-UT-3]
Passed House
Summary
Stronger oversight of contract security guards and better shift tracking. The bill would require the Federal Protective Service to set testing standards, force corrective training, fix personnel tracking, and report progress to Congress.
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- Contract security personnel: Would require a uniform system for covert testing data, mandatory cause-specific corrective training and performance plans for anyone who fails a covert test, and updated training guidance tied to test findings and emerging threats.
- Facilities and tenants: Would force an evaluation and either replacement or repair of the personnel tracking system within 180 days and publish a plan with timelines and tenant communication procedures to address shortages and coverage gaps.
- FPS and contractors: Would require quarterly analysis of covert-test data to spot trends and deficiencies and annual reports to Congress on implementation, challenges, and recommended actions.
- Contractor status: Clarifies that employees of Department of Homeland Security contractors protecting federal property are not designated federal employees under 40 U.S.C. 1315.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Contract security workers not federal employees
If enacted, contract employees who protect federal property under 40 U.S.C. 1315 would not be treated as federal employees. They would not gain federal pay scales, benefits, or federal employee legal protections from this bill. Their status would stay as contractor employees.
Stronger oversight of contract security at federal buildings
If enacted, the Federal Protective Service (FPS) would review its personnel tracking system within 180 days and decide to replace it or fix it. FPS would publish a plan with a timeline and clear steps to alert tenants about staffing shortages or coverage gaps. Within 1 year, FPS would set standards for how covert testing data is collected and analyzed, update training guidance, and strengthen oversight of contract security staff. Contractors would have to give targeted retraining and improvement plans when staff fail covert tests, and FPS would start quarterly reviews of covert test data. FPS would send Congress an initial report in 1 year and annual updates after that.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Kennedy, Mike [R-UT-3]
UT • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Figures, Shomari [D-AL-2]
AL • D
Sponsored 6/6/2025
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 9/8/2025
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
Yes: 402 • No: 0