Non-Essential Workers Transparency Act

Summary

Requires federal executive agencies to publish, within 30 days after an appropriations lapse ends, electronic reports showing total staff (including contractors), total prior-year salary spending, number and combined annual basic pay of furloughed employees, and number and combined pay of employees not furloughed; reports must be unclassified (with optional classified annexes) and published by the relevant congressional committees. Also requires the Congressional Budget Office to publish, within 30 days after the lapse ends, a report on the lapse's effects on the U.S. economy.

• Agencies must report, within 30 days after an appropriations lapse ends, counts and pay totals for furloughed and non-furloughed employees (including contractors).
• Reports must be unclassified and published publicly by the appropriate congressional committees within 30 days of receipt.
• Agencies must include total employee counts as of the day before the lapse and prior fiscal year's total salary expenditures.
• CBO must issue a public report within 30 days after the lapse ends describing the lapse's effects on the U.S. economy.
• Key terms (covered period, covered employee, Executive agency) are defined by cross-reference to existing statutes.
• The bill focuses on transparency and rapid public disclosure after funding lapses rather than on changing pay or operations.
• Includes allowance for classified annexes if part of the agency's data must remain classified.
• Places a short administrative deadline on agencies and committees to compile, submit, and post reports.