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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2035 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 229
114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2035

  To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by a 
                        lapse in appropriations.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2015

   Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Reid, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Carper, Mrs. 
   Gillibrand, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Leahy, Ms. Mikulski, Mrs. 
Shaheen, and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; which was read 
                             the first time

                           September 16, 2015

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
  To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by a 
                        lapse in appropriations.

    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 ``Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act 
of 2015''.

SEC. 2. COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY A LAPSE IN 
              APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``An officer'' and 
        inserting ``Except as specified in this subchapter or any other 
        provision of law, an officer''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c)(1) In this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `covered lapse in appropriations' means a 
        lapse in appropriations that begins on or after October 1, 
        2015; and
            ``(B) the term `excepted employee' means an excepted 
        employee or an employee performing emergency work, as such 
        terms are defined by the Office of Personnel Management.
    ``(2) Each Federal employee furloughed as a result of a covered 
lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in 
appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform 
work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such 
work, at the employee's standard rate of pay at the earliest date 
possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of 
scheduled pay dates.
    ``(3) During a covered lapse in appropriations, each excepted 
employee who is required to perform work shall be entitled to use leave 
under chapter 63 of title 5, or any other applicable law governing the 
use of leave by the excepted employee, for which compensation shall be 
paid at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations 
ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.''.
                                                       Calendar No. 229

114th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 2035

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by a 
                        lapse in appropriations.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 16, 2015

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar
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