# 119-s-1170: Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Transparency Act

119-s-1170, Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Transparency Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1170
- Congress: 119
- Title: Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Transparency Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-03-27
- Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Annual public reporting of official time used by federal employees** would require agencies to disclose the costs, hours, and benefits tied to union activity and trigger regular audits of agency accounting practices. - Agencies would have to publish a detailed report by June 30 each year covering the total cost of official time, reasons for authorizations, and aggregate spending on bargaining, grievance processing, and dispute resolution. The Comptroller General would audit agency accounting practices at least once every four years. - For each employee granted official time, agencies would report the employee’s position, annual basic pay, any bonus value, benefit costs, the total hours spent on official-time activities, and the share of that employee’s work hours those hours represent. - Reports would also disclose the number of hours agency property was used free or at a discount, square footage of real estate made available to labor organizations, reimbursements collected, and the monetary value of space, maintenance, arbitrators, experts, mediators, travel, and lodging. - Each agency must submit its report to Congress and publish it on the agency’s public website to provide oversight and public access to the data.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN), 2025-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Annual agency reports on union time: benefit, low. This bill would require the head of each federal agency to send a yearly report to Congress and post it online by June 30 each year. Each report would cover the prior year and list detailed information about official time under 5 U.S.C. § 7131. Agencies would report total costs, and for each employ…

## Related bills

- 119-s-4744: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act
- 119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act
- 119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act
- 119-s-1711: STOP China Act
- 119-s-3752: SAVE America Act
- 119-s-5025: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026

## Sources
- [119-s-1170 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1170)

## Related
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- [119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4952)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-1711: STOP China Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1711)
- [119-s-3752: SAVE America Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3752)
- [119-s-5025: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1170 (as of 2025-12-21).