Title: Shutdown Fairness Act
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
Shutdown Fairness Act
This bill provides appropriations for the pay and allowances of certain federal employees and contractors who are required to work during any period in which there is a lapse in appropriations for FY2019.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 113 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 113

    To appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal 
                   employees, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 14, 2019

 Mr. Johnson (for himself, Ms. Collins, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Young, Mr. 
 Alexander, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Lankford, and Mr. Portman) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal 
                   employees, 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 ``Shutdown Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``agency'' means each authority of the 
        executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of 
        the United States; and
            (2) the term ``excepted employee''--
                    (A) means an employee of an agency who the head of 
                that agency determines is an excepted employee or an 
                employee performing emergency work, as those terms are 
                defined by the Office of Personnel Management; and
                    (B) includes a contractor who--
                            (i) provides support to an employee 
                        described in subparagraph (A); and
                            (ii) is required to perform work during a 
                        lapse in appropriations, as determined by the 
                        head of the agency with respect to which the 
                        contractor provides support.
    (b) Appropriations.--There are appropriated for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2019, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for any period during which interim or full-
year appropriations for that fiscal year are not in effect, such sums 
as are necessary to provide pay and allowances to excepted employees 
who are required to perform work during that period.
    (c) Termination.--Subject to subsection (d), appropriations and 
funds made available and authority granted under subsection (b) shall 
be available until whichever of the following first occurs:
            (1) The enactment into law of an appropriation (including a 
        continuing appropriation) for any purpose for which amounts are 
        made available under subsection (b).
            (2) The enactment into law of the applicable regular or 
        continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any 
        appropriation for such purpose.
            (3) January 1, 2020.
    (d) Subsequent Lapses.--Appropriations made available under 
subsection (b) may not be obligated during any period during which 
continuing appropriations for any purpose for which amounts are made 
available under subsection (b) are in effect.
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