Title: Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2017
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2017
This bill requires federal employees furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after April 28, 2017, to be compensated for the period of the lapse on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave. The bill addresses a lapse in appropriations scheduled to occur if FY2017 appropriations legislation is not enacted prior to the expiration of the continuing resolution that currently funds most federal agencies through April 28, 2017.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 861 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                        Calendar No. 35
115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 861

To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by lapses 
                           in appropriations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 5 (legislative day, April 4), 2017

  Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Blumenthal, 
 Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Carper, Mr. Warner, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
 Sanders, Mr. Udall, Ms. Hirono, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Kaine, 
 Mrs. Murray, and Mr. Brown) introduced the following bill; which was 
                          read the first time

                             April 7, 2017

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by lapses 
                           in appropriations.

    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 ``Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY A LAPSE IN 
              APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``An officer'' and 
        inserting ``Except as specified in this subchapter or any other 
        provision of law, an officer''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c)(1) In this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `covered lapse in appropriations' means any 
        lapse in appropriations that begins on or after April 28, 2017; 
        and
            ``(B) the term `excepted employee' means an excepted 
        employee or an employee performing emergency work, as such 
        terms are defined by the Office of Personnel Management.
    ``(2) Each Federal employee furloughed as a result of a covered 
lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in 
appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform 
work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such 
work, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date 
possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of 
scheduled pay dates.
    ``(3) During a covered lapse in appropriations, each excepted 
employee who is required to perform work shall be entitled to use leave 
under chapter 63 of title 5, or any other applicable law governing the 
use of leave by the excepted employee, for which compensation shall be 
paid at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations 
ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.''.
                                                        Calendar No. 35

115th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                 S. 861

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by lapses 
                           in appropriations.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             April 7, 2017

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar