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The bill extends consistent anti-harassment training and formalized accountability across the House — improving protections (including for interns) — at the cost of recurring time commitments for Members and staff and added administrative expenses and potential scheduling burdens for short-term trainees.
House Members, officers, employees, interns, unpaid fellows, and detailees will receive consistent anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training each new Congress session, reducing the risk of workplace misconduct and making the House workplace safer.
House employees and officeholders will have standardized training and certification records, improving awareness of rights, creating documented proof of training, and supporting accountability and recourse for misconduct complaints.
Interns, unpaid fellows, and detailees — groups often vulnerable to harassment — are explicitly covered by the requirement, extending protections to short-term and unpaid trainees.
House Members and staff must complete the training each session, imposing a recurring time burden that could divert staff time away from legislative and constituent work.
Implementing, tracking, and certifying training completion will create administrative costs for House offices and the responsible Committee, which are ultimately borne by taxpayers and office budgets.
Short-term interns and fellows may face logistical difficulty meeting training deadlines (despite some deadline flexibility), risking exclusion or barriers to participation if deadlines are not managed effectively.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires recurring workplace rights and anti-harassment training for every House Member, officer, employee, intern, fellow, and detailee, with 90-day completion/certification rules and limited exemptions.
Requires the House Administration Committee to issue rules within 30 days requiring that, in each session of each Congress, every Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, employee, intern (including unpaid), fellow, and detailee complete training on workplace rights and responsibilities under the Congressional Accountability Act—including anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training. The resolution sets filing and completion deadlines (generally within 90 days after the program is certified operational or after an individual begins service), allows limited deadline flexibility for short-term participants and late starters, exempts those who already completed equivalent training during new Member orientation for their first session, and asks the Committee to consider further compliance measures.
Introduced June 5, 2025 by Bryan Steil · Last progress June 9, 2025