PUBLIC LAW 115–160—APR. 3, 2018 

SECRET SERVICE RECRUITMENT 

AND RETENTION ACT OF 2018 


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132 STAT. 1246 PUBLIC LAW 115–160—APR. 3, 2018 

Public Law 115–160 

115th Congress 

An Act 

To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret Service, and 

for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secret Service Recruitment 

and Retention Act of 2018’’. 

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2018 FOR 

PROTECTIVE SERVICES. 

(a) AMENDMENTS.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 2 of the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended— 

(A) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘IN 2016’’ and 

inserting ‘‘DURING 2016 THROUGH 2018’’; 

(B) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘2016’’ and inserting 

‘‘2016, 2017, or 2018’’; and 

(C) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (1) and 

inserting the following: 

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 

law, including section 5547(a) of title 5, United States Code, 

and only to the extent that an appropriation is provided specifically in an appropriations Act for premium pay in excess of 

the annual equivalent of the limitation on the rate of pay 

contained in section 5547(a), any covered employee may receive 

premium pay during 2016, 2017, and 2018, to the extent provided under section 118 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note).’’. 

(2) CLARIFYING PROVISION.—Section 118 of the Treasury 

and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 

5547 note) is amended, in the first sentence, by inserting ‘‘or 

3056A’’ after ‘‘section 3056(a)’’. 

(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by subsection 

(a) shall take effect as if enacted on December 31, 2016. 

(c) REPORT ON EXTENSIONS.—Not later than January 30, 2018, 

and January 30, 2019, the Director of the Secret Service shall 

submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee 

on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 

Affairs of the Senate a report on the effects of the amendment 

made by subsection (a)(2). The report shall include, with respect 

to the previous calendar year— 

5 USC 5547 note. 

Secret Service 

Recruitment and 

Retention Act 

of 2018. 

5 USC 101 note. 

Apr. 3, 2018 

[H.R. 3731] 


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PUBLIC LAW 115–160—APR. 3, 2018 132 STAT. 1247 

(1) the total number of United States Secret Service personnel receiving premium pay above the premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of title 5, United States 

Code; 

(2) the total amount of premium pay for that calendar 

year paid to United States Secret Service personnel above the 

premium pay limitation in such subsection; 

(3) the mean and median amount of premium pay paid 

to United States Secret Service personnel above the premium 

pay limitation in such subsection; 

(4) the greatest amount paid to United States Secret 

Service personnel above the premium pay limitation in such 

subsection and the number of employees who received that 

amount; 

(5) notwithstanding the amendments made by subsection 

(a), the total number of United States Secret Service personnel 

who were not fully compensated for service because of the 

premium pay earnings limitation in section 118 of the Treasury 

and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 

5547 note); 

(6) the total amount of premium pay United States Secret 

Service personnel would have been paid but for the premium 

pay earnings limitation in such section; and 

(7) a list of United States Secret Service personnel who, 

within the calendar year, received premium pay above the 

premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of 

title 5, United States Code, and separated from the agency, 

including the type of separation in each case. 

SEC. 3. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED 

STATES. 

Not later than 1 year after the effective date of this section, 

the Comptroller General of the United States shall complete a 

study and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House 

of Representatives, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, 

the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House 

of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the extent of the 

progress made by the United States Secret Service in implementing 

the recommendations of the United States Secret Service Protective 

Mission Panel, including in particular those items pertaining to 

training and personnel enumerated in the Executive Summary to 

Report from the United States Secret Service Protective Mission 

Lists. 


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132 STAT. 1248 PUBLIC LAW 115–160—APR. 3, 2018 

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3731: 

HOUSE REPORTS: No. 115–435, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Oversight and Government 

Reform). 

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: 

Vol. 163 (2017): Dec. 5, considered and passed House. 

Vol. 164 (2018): Mar. 19, considered and passed Senate, amended. 

Mar. 21, House concurred in Senate amendment. 

Æ 

Panel to the Secretary of Homeland Security dated December 15, 

2014. 

Approved April 3, 2018. 


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