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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3246 

To amend the Pay Our Military Act to ensure that all civilian and contractor 

employees of the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard are 

paid in the event of a Government shutdown. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 4, 2013 

Mr. TURNER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 

Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 

each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend the Pay Our Military Act to ensure that all 

civilian and contractor employees of the Department of 

Defense and the Coast Guard are paid in the event 

of a Government shutdown. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Support Our Depart5 ment of Defense Civilian Employees Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES 

2 AND CONTRACTORS OF DEPARTMENT OF DE3 FENSE AND RESERVE COMPONENT PER4 SONNEL. 

5 (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con6 gress that all civilian employees and contractors of the De7 partment of Defense and the Coast Guard serve to provide 

8 support to members of the Armed Forces. 

9 (b) AMENDMENTS TO PAY OUR MILITARY ACT.— 

10 Subsection (a) of section 2 of the Pay Our Military Act 

11 (HR 3210 of the 113th Congress) is amended— 

12 (1) in paragraph (2)— 

13 (A) by striking ‘‘the civilian personnel’’ 

14 and inserting ‘‘all civilian personnel’’; and 

15 (B) by striking ‘‘whom the Secretary con16 cerned determines are providing support to 

17 members of the Armed Forces described in 

18 paragraph (1)’’; and 

19 (2) in paragraph (3)— 

20 (A) by striking ‘‘pay and allowances to’’ 

21 and inserting ‘‘compensation to all employees 

22 of’’; and 

23 (B) by striking ‘‘whom the Secretary con24 cerned determines are providing support to 

25 members of the Armed Forces described in 

26 paragraph (1)’’. 


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1 (c) TREATMENT OF PREVIOUSLY FURLOUGHED EM2 PLOYEES.—Subsection (b) of such section is amended to 

3 read as follows: 

4 ‘‘(b) TREATMENT OF PREVIOUSLY FURLOUGHED

5 EMPLOYEES.— 

6 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 

7 provision of law, the Secretary of Defense (and the 

8 Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the 

9 Coast Guard) shall ensure that all personnel de10 scribed in paragraph (2) are treated as ‘retained’ or 

11 ‘excepted’ status, as those terms are used in the Of12 fice of Management and Budget Circular A–11, dur13 ing the period for which continuing appropriations 

14 are made available pursuant to subsection (a), effec15 tive as of the date of the enactment of the Support 

16 Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act. 

17 ‘‘(2) PERSONNEL DESCRIBED.—Personnel de18 scribed in this paragraph are civilian personnel of 

19 the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard that 

20 the Secretary of Defense (or the Secretary of Home21 land Security with respect to the Coast Guard) de22 termined were not in ‘retained’ or ‘excepted’ status, 

23 as those terms are used in the Office of Manage24 ment and Budget Circular A–11, at any time during 

25 the period beginning on October 1, 2013, and ending 


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1 on the date of the enactment of the Support Our 

2 Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act.’’. 

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