Updates and Amendments to the Civil Service Rules

What it does

Pursuant to the President's direction in Executive Order 14410, Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a direct final rule to update and amend obsolete and outdated provisions of the Civil Service Rules that do not substantively affect agency operations.

The Personnel Management Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

6 parts of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

5 CFR 2, 5 CFR 3, 5 CFR 5, 5 CFR 6, 5 CFR 9, 5 CFR 10

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Personnel Management Office has published 29 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 14 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3206-AP19 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This rule is effective October 13, 2026, unless significant adverse comments are received by September 14, 2026. If significant adverse comments are received, OPM will withdraw the relevant provisions of this direct final rule.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OPM-2026-0562 on Regulations.gov
• Title 5 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register