Several federal workplace-related bills pending in Congress since clearing the committee level have moved closer to floor voting, with the Congressional Budget Office producing estimates of their cost, a needed step under internal congressional procedures. They include:
* S-1116, to expand eligibility for federal workers engaged in fire protection who have certain diseases and conditions to receive medical, wage replacement, and death benefits under FECA and to extend the length of time FECA claimants have to provide documentation to the Department of Labor.
* S-4337, to expand a special authority for federal agencies to hire spouses of active duty military personnel or of disabled or deceased members of the armed forces non-competitively to apply to remote work.
* S-4592, to require federal agencies to compile inventories of information systems that could be vulnerable to decryption by quantum computers.
* HR-5343, to require a GAO report on the turnover rate for case management personnel at FEMA and examine steps FEMA has taken and plans to take in the future to lower the turnover rate.
* HR-7299, to require the VA to contract with an independent entity to conduct cybersecurity evaluations of the department’s IT.
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