Title: Fairness to Essential Workers Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Fairness to Essential Workers Act
This bill requires that excepted federal and District of Columbia public employees required to perform work during certain lapses in appropriations (i.e., government shutdowns) 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. 750 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 750

 To provide the payment of salaries to Federal employees and employees 
 of the District of Columbia excepted from furlough during a lapse in 
    appropriations during fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 24, 2019

Mr. Upton (for himself and Mrs. Dingell) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide the payment of salaries to Federal employees and employees 
 of the District of Columbia excepted from furlough during a lapse in 
    appropriations during fiscal year 2019, 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 ``Fairness to Essential Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING PAY TO EXCEPTED EMPLOYEES DURING LAPSES IN 
              APPROPRIATIONS DURING FISCAL YEAR 2019.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) December 2018 shutdown.--With respect to the lapse in 
        appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018--
                    (A) each excepted employee (as that term is defined 
                in section 1341(c)(1)(D) of title 31, United States 
                Code) 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 this section 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
                    (B) 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.
            (2) Subsequent lapses in fiscal year 2019.--During any 
        lapse in appropriations during fiscal year 2019 beginning after 
        the lapse in appropriations described in paragraph (1) 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.
    (b) Appropriation.--There are appropriated such sums as are 
necessary to carry out this section.
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