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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5675 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5675

   To extend the authority to provide employees of the United States 
 Secret Service with overtime pay beyond other statutory limitations, 
                        and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2023

 Mr. Green of Tennessee (for himself and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL

 
   To extend the authority to provide employees of the United States 
 Secret Service with overtime pay beyond other statutory limitations, 
                        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 ``Overtime Pay for Protective Services 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2028 FOR PROTECTIVE 
              SERVICES.

    (a) Amendments.--Section 2 of the Overtime Pay for Protective 
Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``2023'' and 
        inserting ``2028'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``Definition'' and 
                inserting ``Definitions'';
                    (B) by striking ``In this section, the term'' and 
                inserting the following: ``In this section--
            ``(1) the term''; and
                    (C) by striking ``2023.'' and inserting the 
                following: ``2028; and
            ``(2) the term `protective services' does not include 
        routine administrative or technical work that supports the 
        daily operations of the United States Secret Service.''; and
            (3) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``during each of 
        calendar years 2016 through 2023'' and inserting ``for 
        protective services during each of calendar years 2016 through 
        2028''.
    (b) Reports.--
            (1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    (A) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
                ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
                            (i) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
                        Senate;
                            (ii) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                        Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
                            (iii) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
                        Senate;
                            (iv) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
                        House of Representatives;
                            (v) the Committee on Homeland Security of 
                        the House of Representatives;
                            (vi) the Committee on Oversight and 
                        Accountability of the House of Representatives; 
                        and
                            (vii) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
                        House of Representatives.
                    (B) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the 
                Director of the United States Secret Service.
            (2) Annual projections.--
                    (A) In general.--Not later than December 31 of each 
                of calendar years 2023 through 2027, the Director shall 
                submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
                report that contains, with respect to the calendar year 
                following the calendar year in which the report is 
                submitted, projections for the information described in 
                paragraphs (1) through (7) of section 2(c) of the 
                Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 2018 
                (Public Law 115-160; 132 Stat. 1246), which shall be 
                divided by calendar quarter.
                    (B) Quarterly updates.--With respect to each annual 
                report required under subparagraph (A), the Director 
                shall, on the last day of each calendar quarter of the 
                calendar year that is covered by the report, submit to 
                the appropriate committees of Congress an updated 
                version of that report that contains projections for 
                the information described in that subparagraph for the 
                remainder of that calendar year, which shall be divided 
                by calendar quarter.
                    (C) Deeming of period.--Solely for the purposes of 
                a report required under this paragraph, a reference in 
                any of paragraphs (1) through (7) of section 2(c) of 
                the Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 
                2018 (Public Law 115-160; 132 Stat. 1246) to a 
                numerical value for a previous calendar year shall be 
                deemed to be a projection of that numerical value for 
                an upcoming calendar year or for the remainder of a 
                calendar year, as applicable.
            (3) Effect of amendments.--Not later than January 30 of 
        each of calendar years 2024 through 2029, the Director shall 
        submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on 
        the effects of the amendments made by subsection (a), which 
        shall include, with respect to the previous calendar year, the 
        following:
                    (A) The information described in paragraphs (1) 
                through (7) of section 2(c) of the Secret Service 
                Recruitment and Retention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-
                160; 132 Stat. 1246).
                    (B) A comparison between the final data reported 
                under subparagraph (A) and the annual projections 
                reported for that calendar year under paragraph (2)(A), 
                including an explanation for any substantial variance 
                between that final data and those annual projections.
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