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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1676
To amend chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, to exclude availability 
pay for Federal criminal investigators from the limitation on premium 
pay; to modify levels of special pay adjustments for Federal law enforce-
ment officers in certain areas, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 8, 2003
Mr. ROGERS of Michigan (for himself, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, and 
Mrs. EMERSON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, to 
exclude availability pay for Federal criminal investigators 
from the limitation on premium pay; to modify levels 
of special pay adjustments for Federal law enforcement 
officers in certain areas, 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 ‘‘Federal Law Enforce-
ment Officers Pay Equity and Reform Act’’.
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON PREMIUM PAY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5547 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘5545a,’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘or 5545a’’; 
and 
(3) in subsection (d), by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘or a criminal investigator who is paid 
availability pay under section 5545a.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect as if included in the enact-
ment of section 1114 of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2002 (Public Law 107–107; 115 
Stat. 1239). 
SEC. 3. SPECIAL PAY ADJUSTMENTS FOR FEDERAL LAW 
ENFORCEMENT 
OFFICERS 
IN 
CERTAIN 
AREAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404(b)(1) of the Federal 
Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 (5 U.S.C. 
5305 note) is amended by striking the matter after the 
semicolon and inserting the following:
‘‘Area 
Differential 
Boston-Lawrence-Salem, MA-NH Consolidated Metropolitan 
Statistical Area ........................................................................
24.4%
Chicago-Gary-Lake County, IL-IN-WI Consolidated Metropoli-
tan Statistical Area ..................................................................
24.5%
Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI .......................................................
18.5%
Hartford, CT ...............................................................................
20.3%
Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside, CA Consolidated Metropolitan 
Statistical Area ........................................................................
27.1%
‘‘Area 
Differential 
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT Con-
solidated Metropolitan Statistical Area ...................................
26.1%
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton PA-NJ-DE-MD Consolidated 
Metropolitan Statistical Area ...................................................
20.3%
Portland-Salem, OR-WA .............................................................
18.5%
Sacramento-Yolo, CA ...................................................................
21%
San Diego, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area .............................
27.1%
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA Consolidated Metropoli-
tan Statistical Area ..................................................................
32.03%
Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA ..................................................
27.5%
Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV Consolidated Metro-
politan Statistical Area ............................................................
24.3%’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply with respect to pay for service per-
formed in pay periods beginning on or after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. SEPARATE PAY, EVALUATION, AND PROMOTION 
SYSTEM FOR FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT 
OFFICERS. 
(a) STUDY.—Not later than 6 months after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Office of Personnel Man-
agement shall study and submit to Congress a report 
which shall contain its findings and recommendations re-
garding the need for, and the potential benefits to be de-
rived from, the establishment of a separate pay, evalua-
tion, and promotion system for Federal law enforcement 
officers. In carrying out this subsection, the Office of Per-
sonnel Management shall take into account the findings 
and recommendations contained in the September 1993 
report of the Office entitled ‘‘A Plan to Establish a New
Pay and Job Evaluation System for Federal Law Enforce-
ment Officers’’. 
(b) DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—If, after completing its re-
port under subsection (a), the Office of Personnel 
Management considers it to be appropriate, the Of-
fice shall implement, within 12 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, a demonstration 
project to determine whether a separate system for 
Federal law enforcement officers (as described in 
subsection (a)) would result in improved Federal 
personnel management. 
(2) APPLICABLE PROVISIONS.—Any demonstra-
tion project under this subsection shall be conducted 
in accordance with the provisions of chapter 47 of 
title 5, United States Code, except that a project 
under this subsection shall not be taken into account 
for purposes of the numerical limitation under sec-
tion 4703(d)(2) of such title. 
(3) PERMANENT CHANGES.—Not later than 6 
months before the demonstration project’s scheduled 
termination date, the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment shall submit to Congress—
(A) its evaluation of the system tested 
under the demonstration project; and
(B) recommendations as to whether or not 
that system (or any aspects of that system) 
should be continued or extended to other Fed-
eral law enforcement officers. 
(c) FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER DE-
FINED.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Federal 
law enforcement officer’’ means a law enforcement officer 
as defined by section 8331 or 8401 of title 5, United 
States Code, and, subsection (b)(2) notwithstanding, in-
cludes any such officer serving in or under the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation.
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