Executive Personnel System Act
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on Post Office and civil serviceThe career federal workforce, hired by merit and protected from being fired for political reasons. About 2 million people, the vast majority of the executive branch.Read the full definition (opens a new tab).
Executive Personnel System Act - Requires the Civil Service Commission to file annual reports with Congress on: (1) the Executive Personnel System; and (2) the position (and authority for) and rate of pay of each employee of an executive agency whose rate of basic pay exceeds the sixth rate of grade GS-15. Extablishes an Executive Personnel System to insure that the executive management of the Government is responsive to the Nation and of the highest quality. Enumerates the objectives of such system. Defines the terms used in this Act, including the agencies to which this Act does and does not apply. Requires each agency to examine its annual employment-of-executive needs and submit to the Commission a request to fulfill such needs. States that the number of executive appointments and the percentages authorized in any agency may be adjusted by the Commission during the fiscal year in which they are effective only for emergency needs that were not anticipated when the initial authorizations were made. Sets forth provisions governing the general authority to appoint executives and the characteristics of career, noncareer, and limited appointments. Directs the Commission to establish qualifications boards to review the qualifications of candidates for career appointment in the Executive Personnel System and the scope of the recruitment effort made to locate candidates. States that the Commission shall, in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget, establish for each fiscal year a figure within the minimum and maximum pay limitations for executives. Sets forth additional provisions governing rates of pay. Provides for pay-fixing authority for specified agencies and for executive management outside the Executive Personnel Systems.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on July 25, 1974. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on July 25, 1974: Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 93rd Congress (1973-74), 651 of the 23,396 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 2.8 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
THADDEUS DULSKI (D-NY) introduced it on July 25, 1974. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on July 25, 1974, 19040 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 19040 days ago, on July 25, 1974.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 93rd Congress has not finished by January 3, 1975 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers