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 and District of Columbia public employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations that begins on or about December 22, 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 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 67 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 67

    To provide for the compensation of Federal employees and other 
 government employees furloughed during a Government shutdown, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2019

  Mr. Beyer (for himself, Mr. Wittman, Ms. Wexton, Mr. Connolly, Mr. 
   McEachin, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Pocan, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. 
  Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Demings, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Serrano, Ms. Pingree, Mr. 
 Panetta, Ms. Moore, Mr. Cole, Mr. Visclosky, Mr. Sires, Mr. Carson of 
      Indiana, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of 
   Pennsylvania, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Lujan, Ms. 
   Norton, Mr. Costa, Mr. Lowenthal, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Engel, Mrs. 
 Murphy, Mr. Green of Texas, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Thompson of California, 
    Miss Rice of New York, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. 
    Hastings, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. 
 Norcross, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Scott of Virginia, 
 Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Welch, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Langevin, Mr. O'Halleran, 
  Mr. Lewis, Ms. DeGette, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. 
Soto, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Trone, Mr. Bishop of 
  Utah, Ms. Roybal-Allard, and Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the compensation of Federal employees and other 
 government employees furloughed 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 ``Federal Employee Retroactive Pay 
Fairness Act''.

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

    (a) In General.--Federal employees and employees of a District of 
Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of any lapse in 
appropriations that begins on or about December 22, 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.
    (b) Definition of District of Columbia Public Employer.--In this 
section, the term ``District of Columbia public employer'' means--
            (1) the District of Columbia Courts;
            (2) the Public Defender Service for the District of 
        Columbia; and
            (3) the District of Columbia government.
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