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The bill increases public and managerial transparency of federal "official time" and union dues—improving accountability and oversight—while creating administrative costs and raising privacy and potential political-targeting risks for employees and unions.
Taxpayers, the public, federal employees, and unions gain regular, agency-disaggregated transparency because OPM must publish annual data on official time, dues withheld, and related costs by March 31 each year.
Agency leaders and human-resources managers get standardized, comparable data to monitor and compare official time use across agencies and years, improving oversight and workforce resource allocation.
Union financial transparency increases because reports must include totals for dues withheld and counts of employees who paid dues via payroll systems, clarifying union funding flows.
Federal employees and exclusive representatives may face increased administrative burden and heightened privacy concerns due to detailed disaggregation of official time use and locations.
Public disclosure of granular official-time and dues data could be used politically to criticize, single out, or pressure specific agencies, bargaining units, or individual employees.
Agencies will incur direct costs and need staff time to collect, validate, and submit the detailed data and to implement OPM guidance within 180 days, imposing administrative expense on agencies and taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires annual, agency-disaggregated reporting to OPM and a public OPM report on the use and costs of federal "official time."
Requires federal agencies to collect and report detailed, annual data on the use and costs of “official time” (paid time for labor-management activities) and directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to compile those submissions into a public, agency-by-agency report. Agencies must submit specified figures to OPM by December 31 each year; OPM must publish a consolidated report by March 31 covering the prior fiscal year and explain any year‑over‑year increases in agency official time rates. Specifies the exact data elements to be reported (totals, averages, costs, counts, types of activities, locations, dues withholding, and operational impacts), requires OPM guidance within 180 days, mandates agency-disaggregated and aggregated tables with year-to-year comparisons, and sets an effective date of the first April 1 at least six months after enactment.
Introduced October 14, 2025 by Virginia Ann Foxx · Last progress October 14, 2025