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Hice, Jody B. [R-GA-10]","purpose":"Amendment sought to ensure that a policy similar to Schedule F could be reinstated in the future by the President.","result":"Failed","date":"2022-09-15","yea":204,"nay":226,"present":0,"not_voting":2,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll431.xml"}],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2022-09-15","question":"On Agreeing to the Amendment","title":"","result":"Failed","yea":204,"nay":226,"present":0,"not_voting":2,"kind":"amendment","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll431.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2022-09-15","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Preventing a Patronage System Act of 2021 or the PPSA Act of 2021"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill prohibits executive agency positions in the competitive service from being placed in the excepted service, unless such positions are placed in Schedules A through E as in effect on September 30, 2020. The bill also prohibits positions in the excepted service from being placed in any schedule other than the aforementioned schedules."},{"k":"p","t":"On October 21, 2020, former President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service. The order placed executive agency positions that are of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character, and that are not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition, under a new schedule in the excepted service (Schedule F) instead of the competitive service. The order also required any such positions in the excepted service to be reclassified to Schedule F. The order was revoked by President Joe Biden on January 22, 2021."}],"words":162},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Limits the circumstances in which positions in the competitive service of the federal civil service may be moved to the excepted service, and limits the schedules in which excepted service positions may be placed.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/302/text/eh#HA36F8E56C8124B9A98F438855AB78731"}]},"core_areas":["Federal civil service classification: competitive service and excepted service positions"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Prohibits any position in the competitive service from being excepted from it unless the position is placed in one of schedules A through E as described in section 6.2 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on September 30, 2020.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/302/text/eh#HA36F8E56C8124B9A98F438855AB78731"}},{"text":"Requires that a competitive service position excepted from it also be placed under the terms and conditions of part 6 of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on September 30, 2020.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/302/text/eh#HA36F8E56C8124B9A98F438855AB78731"}},{"text":"Prohibits any position in the excepted service from being placed in any schedule other than schedules A through E as described in the regulations in effect on September 30, 2020.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/302/text/eh#HA36F8E56C8124B9A98F438855AB78731"}},{"text":"Gives the Act the short title \"Preventing a Patronage System Act of 2021\" or the \"PPSA Act of 2021\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/302/text/eh#HF1B76F71262340A39D151C466F917DBB"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2022-09-15","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/302/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/302","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/302/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-302.png","v":"52a3cd7c5a49","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 302, 117th Congress: PPSA Act of 2021. House: 225 Yea, 204 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 15 Sep 2022."}}