House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Federal Employee Return to Work Act
Official title: To prohibit certain telework employees from receiving certain annual adjustments to pay schedules, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Dan Newhouse R-WAWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 7, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 236.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. As as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 3, January 7, 2025, Page H63):Article I, Section 8, Clause 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 7, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 236, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/236
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
21 cosponsors — 21 Republicans
0 of 21 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Tom Barrett (R-MI), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Earl Carter (R-GA), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Mike Collins (R-GA), Jake Ellzey (R-TX), Pat Fallon (R-TX), Brad Finstad (R-MN), Charles Fleischmann (R-TN), Pat Harrigan (R-NC), Andy Harris (R-MD), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Zachary Nunn (R-IA), Harold Rogers (R-KY), William Timmons (R-SC), Randy Weber (R-TX).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Dan Newhouse.
- H.Res. 189 (119th) Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas.
- H.R. 2072 (119th) To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction…
- H.Res. 744 (119th) Supporting the designation of the week of September 21 through September 27, 2025, as "Gold Star Families Remembrance Week".
- H.R. 1575 (119th) No American Land for Communist China Act
- H.R. 1576 (119th) Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2025
- H.Res. 1552 (119th) Supporting the designation of the week of September 20 through September 26, 2026, as "Gold Star Families Remembrance Week".
Related bills
- S. 27 (119th) Federal Employee Return to Work ActIdentical bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.