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The bill restores reinstatement rights and increases reporting transparency for veterans removed from civil service, strengthening protections and oversight, while creating administrative costs, potential privacy risks, and workforce-management disruptions for federal agencies.
Veterans who were involuntarily removed from federal civil service between January 20, 2025 and the bill's enactment become eligible for reinstatement to their prior or any qualified civil service position, restoring employment and benefits opportunities for affected veterans.
Federal agencies must provide quarterly reports about veteran dismissals through January 20, 2029, increasing transparency and giving Congress tools to detect patterns of wrongful or discriminatory dismissals.
The bill provides clear statutory definitions of 'civil service' and 'veteran,' reducing legal ambiguity for employees and agencies and making eligibility and reporting requirements easier to interpret and apply.
Agencies may face operational disruption and workforce-management challenges when veterans are reinstated to positions that were filled after their removals, potentially requiring reassignments or creating staffing gaps.
Quarterly reporting requirements impose administrative costs — staff time and resources — on agencies through January 20, 2029, which are borne by taxpayers and could divert capacity from other work.
Public reporting of reasons for dismissals could raise privacy and personnel confidentiality concerns for individual employees if reports are not properly redacted or handled.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes veterans involuntarily removed from federal civil service between Jan 20, 2025 and enactment eligible for reinstatement and requires quarterly agency reports on such removals through Jan 20, 2029.
Introduced February 26, 2025 by Derek Tran · Last progress February 26, 2025
Provides reinstatement eligibility for veterans who were involuntarily removed from federal civil service between January 20, 2025 and the law's enactment, and requires executive branch agencies to send quarterly reports to designated congressional committees listing counts and reasons for veteran removals; reporting ends January 20, 2029. The measure defines key terms by reference to existing federal statutes.