HR 4440 IH: Protecting Federal Employee Rights to Personnel Files Act of 2025
Introduced in the House of Representatives on July 16, 2025,
this bill aims to provide official personnel record files to Federal employees and former Federal employees.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
This Act may be cited as the ‘Protecting Federal Employee Rights to Personnel Files Act of 2025’.
SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE
This Act may be cited as the ‘Protecting Federal Employee Rights to Personnel Files Act of 2025’.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE OFFICIAL PERSONNEL RECORD FILES TO EMPLOYEES AND FORMER EMPLOYEES
a) IN GENERAL
Subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 3330f the following:
‘‘§ 3330g. Requirement to provide official personnel record files to employees and former employees.’’
(a) CURRENT EMPLOYEES.
Not later than seven days after the date an employee of an agency requests a copy of the employee’s official personnel record file, the head of such agency shall provide to such employee, in electronic and physical form, a copy of such file.
(b) FORMER EMPLOYEES
IN GENERAL.—With respect to any employee separating from an agency on or after the date of the enactment of this section, not later than seven days after the date of such separation, the head of such agency shall provide to such employee, in electronic and physical form, a copy of the employee’s official personnel record file.
(2) PREVIOUSLY SEPARATED EMPLOYEES
With respect to any individual who separated from an agency before the date of the enactment of this section, not later than 21 days after the date such separation, the head of such agency shall provide to such employee, in electronic and physical form, a copy of such file.
(c) AGENCY DEFINED
In this section, the term “agency” has the meaning given that term in section 551.
b) CERITICAL AMENDMENT
The table of sections for such subchapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3330f the following: