# Plain Language Summary: Political Appointments Inclusion and Diversity Act

This bill requires the federal government to publicly share detailed information about who gets hired for top political jobs. Right now, there's no easy way for regular people to find out whether the people running government agencies look like America or represent its diversity. This bill would change that by making the government publish annual reports showing the race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, veteran status, and age of political appointees across all federal agencies and the White House. The information would be presented in a searchable, downloadable format so anyone can look it up online and see patterns about who's being appointed to these positions.

The bill covers a wide range of high-level positions, from cabinet secretaries confirmed by the Senate to White House staff and advisors. It includes people serving temporarily in "acting" roles, not just permanent appointees. The data would be broken down by agency and department, allowing people to compare diversity levels across different parts of government. Importantly, appointees would have the option to decline answering any of these demographic questions if they prefer not to share that information, so participation would be voluntary.

The practical effect is transparency. Citizens, journalists, researchers, and advocacy groups would be able to analyze whether political appointments reflect the diversity of the country and whether certain groups are underrepresented in government leadership. Congress would also use this information to evaluate whether the government is actually achieving diversity in its hiring of top officials. While the bill doesn't require the government to hire more diverse candidates or punish agencies that don't, it creates public accountability by making the numbers visible and comparable year after year.

Political Appointments Inclusion and Diversity Act

Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria

Political Appointments Inclusion and Diversity Act This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in coordination with the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, to publish a report on OPM's public website containing summary level information on the demographics of political appointees. Each published report shall include for each type of appointee self-identified data on race, ethnicity, tribal affiliation, gender, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, and whether the appointee is over the age of 40. Such a report shall allow for users of OPM's website to view the type of appointee by agency or component, along with these self-identified data, alone and in combination, without allowing the identification of the appointee. When collecting each category of data, each appointee shall be allowed an option to not specify with respect to any category.