I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3731 
To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret Service, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 
Mr. KATKO (for himself, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. GOWDY, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. 
THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. JACKSON LEE, 
Mr. RATCLIFFE, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. DONOVAN) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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 com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States 
Secret Service, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secret Service Recruit-
ment and Retention Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 
2. 
EXTENSION 
OF 
OVERTIME 
PAY 
EXCEPTION 
THROUGH 2018 FOR PROTECTIVE SERVICES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Overtime Pay for Protective 
Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading for section 2, by 
striking ‘‘2016’’ and inserting ‘‘2016
THROUGH 
2018’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘during 2016’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘during 2016 through 2018’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on December 
31, 2016. 
(c) REPORT ON EXTENSIONS.—Not later than Janu-
ary 30, 2018, and January 30, 2019, the Director of the 
Secret Service shall submit to the Committee on Home-
land Security and the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs of the Senate a report on the effects of the amend-
ment made by subsection (a)(2). The report shall include, 
with respect to the previous calendar year— 
(1) the total number of United States Secret 
Service personnel receiving premium pay above the 
premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of section 
5547 of title 5, United States Code; 
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(2) the total amount of premium pay for that 
calendar year paid to United States Secret Service 
personnel above the premium pay limitation in such 
subsection; 
(3) the mean and median amount of premium 
pay paid to United States Secret Service personnel 
above the premium pay limitation in such sub-
section; 
(4) the greatest amount paid to United States 
Secret Service personnel above the premium pay lim-
itation in such subsection and the number of em-
ployees who received that amount; 
(5) notwithstanding the amendments made by 
subsection (a), the total number of United States 
Secret Service personnel who were not fully com-
pensated for service because of the premium pay 
earnings limitation in section 118 of the Treasury 
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 
(5 U.S.C. 5547 note); 
(6) the total amount of premium pay United 
States Secret Service personnel would have been 
paid but for the premium pay earnings limitation in 
such section; and 
(7) a list of United States Secret Service per-
sonnel who, within the calendar year, received pre-
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