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The bill extends recurring anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training (including to interns) and adds documentation to improve workplace protections and accountability, at the cost of staff time, possible duplicated training, and additional unfunded administrative burden for House offices and overseers.
House members, officers, employees, and short-term staff (interns, unpaid interns, fellows, detailees) will receive recurring anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training, increasing awareness of workplace rights and protections and extending protections to typically vulnerable short-term staff.
House offices and oversight bodies will have certificates of completion and set deadlines to document compliance, improving accountability and making it easier to identify gaps in training coverage.
House offices and HR/administrative staff may face increased administrative burden from session-by-session recurring training requirements and compliance tracking, and some training may duplicate existing programs.
Members, staff, and interns must meet deadlines to complete required training, imposing time costs on individuals and offices that could divert time from other duties.
Enforcing compliance may require resources, oversight capacity, or sanctions for the Committee and House offices that are not funded by the bill, shifting costs or creating unfunded mandates.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires recurring Congressional Accountability Act workplace-rights training for all House Members, officers, and employees (including interns) with certification within 90 days.
Official title: Requiring each Member, officer, and employee of the House of Representatives to complete a program of training in workplace rights and responsibilities each session of each Congress, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 5, 2025 by Bryan Steil · Last progress June 9, 2025
Requires the House Committee on House Administration to adopt regulations within 30 days directing that every Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, and employee of the House complete training on workplace rights and responsibilities under the Congressional Accountability Act (part A of title II), including anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training. Interns, unpaid interns, fellowship participants, and detailees are defined as House employees for this training; certificates of completion must be filed within 90 days (with a special 90-day rule for the 119th Congress first session) and the Committee may set alternative deadlines for short-term participants or late joiners. The resolution exempts individuals who already completed equivalent Committee-run new Member orientation training during that Congress from repeating it, and directs the Committee to consider additional compliance mechanisms. The training requirement relies on the definitions and substance of the Congressional Accountability Act for content but does not itself amend that statute.