Title 12 › CHAPTER 53 — WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION › SUBCHAPTER V — BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION › Part F — Transfer of Functions and Personnel; Transitional Provisions › § 5584
Moves staff who do consumer financial protection work from several agencies into the Bureau. The Bureau and each agency (Board of Governors, Federal reserve banks, FDIC, NCUA, OCC, OTS, HUD, and some others) must agree on how many people to move and which people. Federal reserve bank workers doing that work count as Board employees. Everyone the agencies jointly pick must be moved. If they cannot agree by the designated transfer date, the President can order transfers, must report the order to four Congressional committees, and that power ends 3 years after the designated transfer date. Agencies may also transfer appointment authority for certain excepted and Senior Executive Service jobs, but they can refuse for confidential or non‑career SES posts. Each moved employee must start at the Bureau within 90 days after the designated transfer date and get a job assignment notice within 120 days after their transfer. Examiners keep their certification for similar examiner jobs. The Bureau must keep employees’ status and tenure the same as before the move, and service at the Board or a Federal reserve bank counts as federal service. Transferred workers get specific protections for pay, jobs, and benefits. For 2 years after the designated transfer date, most permanent transferred employees may not be forced out or moved out of their pay area, and their basic pay (including geographic pay) cannot be cut below what they earned right before the move, subject to exceptions for cause, poor performance, or with their consent. Retirement and other benefits generally continue under the plan they had when moved. Employees have a 1‑year window beginning 6 months after the designated transfer date to choose to join the Federal Reserve System Retirement Plan and Thrift Plan; that choice takes effect the day after the 18‑month period ends and prior service transfers into the new plan. Federal Reserve transferred employees may instead elect to join the Civil Service or Federal Employees Retirement Program in the same 1‑year window, effective the same way. The Bureau must pay required employer contributions and provide reimbursements or transfers to cover plan costs as needed. For 1 year after the move, employees may stay in their old health, dental, vision, life, or long‑term care plans and the Bureau will reimburse those employers; if the Bureau has not set up its own plans after that year, employees can enroll in Federal programs (FEHB, FEGLI, dental, vision, or long‑term care) without normal open season or underwriting rules. If the Bureau reorganizes staff between 1 and 3 years after the designated transfer date, special reduction‑in‑force rules apply; after 3 years standard RIF rules apply with some adjustments. The Bureau must set up a uniform pay and job classification system within 2 years after the designated transfer date, follow OPM rules, and act to treat transferred employees fairly.
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12 U.S.C. § 5584
Title 12, Banks and Banking
Last Updated
Sep 23, 2026
Release point: 119-110