S. 3005

119th CONGRESS 1st Session

To require Executive agencies to submit reports to Congress and to the Office of Personnel Management regarding employees who are furloughed during any period during which there is a lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES · October 14, 2025 · Sponsor: Ms. Ernst · Committee: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Table of contents

• S. 3005
  • SEC. 1. Short title
  • SEC. 2. Reporting requirements

SEC. 1. Short title

• This Act may be cited as the Non-Essential Workers Transparency Act.

SEC. 2. Reporting requirements

• (a) Definitions
  • In this section:
    • The term appropriate congressional committees means, with respect to an Executive agency—
    • The term covered employee means an employee of an Executive agency who is subject to furlough during a covered period with respect to that Executive agency.
    • The term covered period means a period during which there is a lapse in appropriations with respect to an Executive agency.
    • The term Director means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
    • The term Executive agency has the meaning given the term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code.
• (b) Requirements
  • Not later than 30 days after the date on which a covered period with respect to an Executive agency ends, the Under Secretary (or the equivalent) of that Executive agency shall electronically submit to the appropriate congressional committees with respect to that Executive agency, and to the Director, a report that contains—
    • the total number of employees (including contract employees) employed by the Executive agency, as of the day before the day on which that covered period began;
    • the total amount expended by the Executive agency on salaries of employees during the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which that covered period began;
    • the total number of employees of the Executive agency who were covered employees during that covered period;
    • the sum obtained by adding the annual rate of basic pay of each employee described in paragraph (3);
    • the total number of employees of the Executive agency who were not covered employees during that covered period; and
    • the sum obtained by adding the annual rate of basic pay of each employee described in paragraph (5).
• (c) Procedures
  • (1) Classification
    • Each Executive agency submitting a report under subsection (b), or an update to such a report, shall submit that report or update in unclassified form, but that report or update may include a classified annex.
  • (2) Publication
    • Not later than 30 days after the date on which an appropriate congressional committee receives a report submitted under subsection (b), that appropriate congressional committee shall publish the report on the website of the appropriate congressional committee.
  • (3) OPM requirements
    • Not later than 60 days after the date on which a covered period with respect to 1 or more Executive agencies ends, the Director shall—
      • consolidate all reports submitted to the Director under subsection (b) with respect to that covered period into a single report; and
      • publish the consolidated report created under subparagraph (A) on the website of the Office of Personnel Management.