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DIVISION 
F—FAIR 
COMPENSA-
TION FOR LOW-WAGE CON-
TRACTOR 
EMPLOYEES 
ACT 
OF 2019 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Fair Compensation 
for Low-Wage Contractor Employees Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. APPROPRIATION. 
There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as 
may be necessary, to remain available until expended, for 
each Federal agency subject to the lapse in appropriations 
that began on or about December 22, 2018, for adjust-
ments in the price of contracts of such agency under sec-
tion 3. 
SEC. 3. BACK COMPENSATION FOR LOW-WAGE EMPLOYEES 
OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS IN CONNEC-
TION WITH THE LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each Federal agency subject to 
the lapse in appropriations that began on or about Decem-
ber 22, 2018, shall adjust the price of any contract of such 
agency for which the contractor was ordered to suspend, 
delay, or interrupt all or part of the work of such contract, 
or stop all or any part of the work called for in such con-
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tract, as a result of the lapse in appropriations to com-
pensate the contractor for reasonable costs incurred— 
(1) to provide compensation, at an employee’s 
standard rate of compensation, to any employee who 
was furloughed or laid off, or who was not working, 
who experienced a reduction of hours, or who experi-
enced a reduction in compensation, as a result of the 
lapse in appropriations (for the period of the lapse); 
or 
(2) to restore paid leave taken by any employee 
during the lapse in appropriations, if the contractor 
required employees to use paid leave as a result of 
the lapse in appropriations. 
(b) LIMITATION
ON AMOUNT
OF WEEKLY COM-
PENSATION COVERED BY ADJUSTMENT.—The maximum 
amount of weekly compensation of an employee for which 
an adjustment may be made under subsection (a) may not 
exceed the lesser of— 
(1) the employee’s actual weekly compensation; 
or 
(2) $965. 
(c) TIMING OF ADJUSTMENTS.—The adjustments re-
quired by subsection (a) shall be made as soon as prac-
ticable after the enactment of this Act. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
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(1) The term ‘‘compensation’’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 6701 of title 41, United 
States Code. 
(2) The term ‘‘employee’’ means the following: 
(A) A ‘‘service employee’’ as that term is 
defined in section 6701(3) of title 41, United 
States Code, except that the term also includes 
service employees described in subparagraph 
(C) of that section notwithstanding that sub-
paragraph. 
(B) A ‘‘laborer or mechanic’’ covered by 
section 3142 of title 40, United States Code. 
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This division shall take effect upon the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 5. BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
(a) CLASSIFICATION
OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.— 
Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping 
Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of 
the committee of conference accompanying Conference Re-
port 105–217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the 
budgetary effects of this division shall not be estimated— 
(1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act; and
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(2) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 
3 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as 
being included in an appropriation Act. 
(b) DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.— 
The budgetary effects of this division, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
division, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, 
provided that such statement has been submitted prior to 
the vote on passage. 
DIVISION G—EMPLOYMENT AUTHORITY 
SEC. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
an entity may use amounts appropriated or otherwise 
made available under the Legislative Branch Appropria-
tions Act, 2020, to pay the compensation of an officer or 
employee without regard to the officer’s or employee’s im-
migration status if the officer or employee has been issued 
an employment authorization document under the De-
ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program of the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, established pursuant to the 
memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security 
entitled ‘‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect
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to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Chil-
dren’’, dated June 15, 2012. 
SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or regulation, an alien who is authorized to be employed 
in the United States pursuant to the Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals program established under the memo-
randum of the Secretary of Homeland Security dated 
June 15, 2012, shall be eligible for employment by the 
Government (including any entity the majority of the 
stock of which is owned by the Government). 
Passed the House of Representatives June 25, 2019. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3055 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2020, and for other purposes.