Title: Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act
This bill requires federal employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations that begins on or about February 8, 2018, to be compensated at their standard rate of compensation for the period of such lapse as soon as practicable after such lapse ends.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4961 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4961

To provide for the compensation of Federal employees furloughed during 
                         a Government shutdown.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2018

 Mr. Beyer (for himself, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Serrano, Mr. 
  DeSaulnier, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Ms. Norton, Mrs. 
 Comstock, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Perlmutter, Ms. Shea-Porter, 
Mr. Connolly, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Cummings, 
   Mr. Scott of Virginia, Ms. Meng, Mr. Lowenthal, Ms. Pingree, Mr. 
Takano, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Delaney, Mr. 
    Lynch, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Meeks, Mr. Price of North 
   Carolina, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Payne, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. 
 Kuster of New Hampshire, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Ben 
Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Mr. Cole, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Lee, Mr. 
Yarmuth, Mr. Welch, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Langevin, Ms. 
  Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mrs. Lowey, Mrs. Bustos, Ms. 
Moore, Mr. Soto, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Clay, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Ruppersberger, 
 Mr. McEachin, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
 Foster, Mr. O'Halleran, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Cohen, 
  Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Adams, Mr. Visclosky, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Ryan of 
Ohio, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Hanabusa, Ms. 
Stefanik, Mr. Vela, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Plaskett, 
   Mr. Griffith, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Lawson of 
Florida, Mr. McNerney, Ms. Esty of Connecticut, Mr. Evans, Mr. Pallone, 
  Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Costa, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Panetta, Mr. 
 Smith of Washington, Mr. Sires, Mr. Jones, Mr. Correa, Mr. Crist, Ms. 
  Bordallo, Mrs. Demings, and Ms. Slaughter) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the compensation of Federal employees furloughed during 
                         a Government shutdown.

    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 Retroactive Pay 
Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FURLOUGHED DURING A 
              GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

    Federal employees furloughed as a result of any lapse in 
appropriations that begins on or about February 8, 2018, shall be 
compensated at their standard rate of compensation, for the period of 
such lapse in appropriations, as soon as practicable after such lapse 
in appropriations ends.
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