Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act

Subjects: Government Operations and Politics


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3199 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3199

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay 
 rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are 
  located in the pay locality designated as ``Rest of U.S.'', and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2023

   Mr. Weber of Texas (for himself, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Donalds, Mr. 
 Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Van 
 Drew, Mr. Trone, Ms. Salazar, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. Stauber, and Mr. Bost) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay 
 rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are 
  located in the pay locality designated as ``Rest of U.S.'', 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 ``Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING NEAREST OTHER LOCALITY PAY RATE FOR CERTAIN BUREAU OF 
              PRISONS EMPLOYEES RECEIVING REST OF U.S. LOCALITY RATE.

    Section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j) and by inserting after 
subsection (h) the following:
    ``(i)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and 
consistent with paragraph (2), the official worksite of an employee of 
the Bureau of Prisons that is otherwise located in the pay locality 
designated as `Rest of U.S.' shall be considered to be located in the 
nearest other pay locality established pursuant to this section.
    ``(2) For purposes of carrying out paragraph (1)--
            ``(A) if more than one pay locality is within 200 miles of 
        the official worksite of such an employee, such worksite shall 
        be considered to be located in the pay locality with the 
        highest comparability payment;
            ``(B) an employee of the Bureau of Prisons shall not be 
        subject to paragraph (1) if the official worksite of such 
        employee is not within 200 miles of any pay locality other than 
        `Rest of U.S.'; and
            ``(C) notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term 
        `employee' includes any prevailing rate employee (as that term 
        is defined ins section 5342).
    ``(3) This subsection shall begin to apply during any pay period 
beginning on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this subsection.''.
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