Diplomatic Workforce Protection

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-04-30 — PATH to the Foreign Service Act: 2025 — S4466 (PATH to the Foreign Service Act) read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; another Foreign Service entry-pathway vehicle in the 119th Congress alongside HR9728/S2204/HR9730, with no substantive provisions disclosed at referral. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
2026-07-16 — Foreign Service Test-Free Reentry Act of 2026: 2026 — HR9730 (Foreign Service Test-Free Reentry Act of 2026) introduced and referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee; would waive the Foreign Service entrance test for former personnel seeking to reenter — a related but distinct diplomatic-workforce personnel measure alongside HR9728/S.2204. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
2025-06-28 — Protecting America’s Diplomatic Workforce Act: 2025 — S.2204 (Protecting America’s Diplomatic Workforce Act) introduced in the 119th Congress and referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, appearing as a Senate companion/counterpart to the previously logged House bill (HR9728); substantive provisions not yet available from the referral record. (novelty: 2)
2026-07-16 — Protecting America’s Diplomatic Workforce Act: HR9728 (Protecting America’s Diplomatic Workforce Act) introduced in the 119th Congress and referred to the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Agriculture; substantive provisions not yet available from referral record. (novelty: 2)