Title: Never Again Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Never Again Act
This bill requires that excepted federal and District of Columbia public employees who must perform work during a lapse in appropriations (i.e., a government shutdown) be paid, at their standard rate of pay, on scheduled pay dates.
Under current law, such employees must be paid at the earliest possible date after the lapse in appropriations ends.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 710 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 710

  To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide pay to employees 
  excepted from furlough during a Government shutdown, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 22, 2019

  Mr. Welch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide pay to employees 
  excepted from furlough during a Government shutdown, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Never Again Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING SALARIES TO EXCEPTED EMPLOYEES DURING A GOVERNMENT 
              SHUTDOWN.

    Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, is amended in 
subsection (c), as added by the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act 
of 2019, by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
    ``(2)(A) Each employee of the United States Government or of a 
District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a 
covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the 
lapse in appropriations, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the 
earliest date possible after such lapse in appropriations ends, 
regardless of scheduled pay dates.
    ``(B)(i) With respect to the lapse in appropriations beginning on 
or around December 22, 2018--
            ``(I) each excepted employee who was required to perform 
        work during the period beginning on the first day of such lapse 
        and ending on the date of enactment of the Never Again Act 
        shall be paid for such work, at the employee's standard rate of 
        pay, at the earliest date possible after the date of enactment, 
        regardless of scheduled pay dates; and
            ``(II) for the remainder of such lapse, each excepted 
        employee who is required to perform work during such remainder 
        shall be paid for such work, at the employee's standard rate of 
        pay, on the employee's scheduled pay dates.
    ``(ii) During any covered lapse in appropriations beginning after 
the lapse in appropriations described in clause (i) ends, 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, on the employee's scheduled pay dates.
    ``(iii) There are appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry 
out this subparagraph.''.
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