I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3246 
To amend the Pay Our Military Act to ensure that all civilian and contractor 
employees of the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard are 
paid in the event of a Government shutdown. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 4, 2013 
Mr. TURNER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Pay Our Military Act to ensure that all 
civilian and contractor employees of the Department of 
Defense and the Coast Guard are paid in the event 
of a Government shutdown. 
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 ‘‘Support Our Depart-
ment of Defense Civilian Employees Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES 
AND CONTRACTORS OF DEPARTMENT OF DE-
FENSE 
AND 
RESERVE 
COMPONENT 
PER-
SONNEL. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that all civilian employees and contractors of the De-
partment of Defense and the Coast Guard serve to provide 
support to members of the Armed Forces. 
(b) AMENDMENTS TO PAY OUR MILITARY ACT.— 
Subsection (a) of section 2 of the Pay Our Military Act 
(HR 3210 of the 113th Congress) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the civilian personnel’’ 
and inserting ‘‘all civilian personnel’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘whom the Secretary con-
cerned determines are providing support to 
members of the Armed Forces described in 
paragraph (1)’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘pay and allowances to’’ 
and inserting ‘‘compensation to all employees 
of’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘whom the Secretary con-
cerned determines are providing support to 
members of the Armed Forces described in 
paragraph (1)’’. 
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(c) TREATMENT OF PREVIOUSLY FURLOUGHED EM-
PLOYEES.—Subsection (b) of such section is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(b) TREATMENT
OF PREVIOUSLY FURLOUGHED 
EMPLOYEES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Secretary of Defense (and the 
Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the 
Coast Guard) shall ensure that all personnel de-
scribed in paragraph (2) are treated as ‘retained’ or 
‘excepted’ status, as those terms are used in the Of-
fice of Management and Budget Circular A–11, dur-
ing the period for which continuing appropriations 
are made available pursuant to subsection (a), effec-
tive as of the date of the enactment of the Support 
Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act. 
‘‘(2) PERSONNEL
DESCRIBED.—Personnel de-
scribed in this paragraph are civilian personnel of 
the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard that 
the Secretary of Defense (or the Secretary of Home-
land Security with respect to the Coast Guard) de-
termined were not in ‘retained’ or ‘excepted’ status, 
as those terms are used in the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget Circular A–11, at any time during 
the period beginning on October 1, 2013, and ending 
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on the date of the enactment of the Support Our 
Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act.’’. 
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