Title: To provide a bonus to any Federal employee excepted from furlough during the lapse in appropriations beginning on or about December 22, 2018, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill provides a bonus to federal employees who were excepted from furlough and worked without pay during the lapse in FY2019 appropriations that began on December 22, 2018. For each day that an employee worked without pay, the bill provides a bonus equal to 15% of the employee's daily rate of pay.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 814 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 814

   To provide a bonus to any Federal employee excepted from furlough 
 during the lapse in appropriations beginning on or about December 22, 
                     2018, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 28, 2019

 Mr. Griffith introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide a bonus to any Federal employee excepted from furlough 
 during the lapse in appropriations beginning on or about December 22, 
                     2018, 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. BONUS FOR EXCEPTED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FOR DECEMBER 22, 2018 
              SHUTDOWN.

    (a) Bonuses for Federal Employees.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to subsection (b), any employee of 
        the United States Government excepted from furlough and working 
        without pay during the lapse in appropriations beginning on or 
        about December 22, 2018, shall receive a bonus for each day 
        during that lapse that the employee reported to the employee's 
        duty station and performed the duties of the employee's 
        position.
            (2) Payment.--A bonus under this subsection shall be--
                    (A) equal to 15 percent of the employee's daily 
                rate of pay (as determined under section 5504 of title 
                5, United States Code); and
                    (B) paid on the same date that the employee 
                receives backpay under section 1341(c) of title 31, 
                United States Code, as added by the Government Employee 
                Fair Treatment Act of 2019, or as soon as practicable 
                after that date.
            (3) Treatment of bonuses.--Any bonus paid under this 
        subsection--
                    (A) shall be subject to any limitation on total 
                aggregate pay, including section 5307 of title 5, 
                United States Code; and
                    (B) is not part of the basic pay of an employee for 
                any purpose.
    (b) Bonuses for Members of the Uniformed Services.--
            (1) In general.--Any member of the uniformed services 
        excepted from furlough and working without pay during the lapse 
        in appropriations beginning on or about December 22, 2018, 
        shall receive a bonus for each day during that lapse that the 
        member reported to the duty station of the member and performed 
        the duties of the member.
            (2) Payment.--A bonus under this subsection shall be--
                    (A) equal to 15 percent of the daily rate of pay 
                the member (as determined under chapter 3 of title 37, 
                United States Code); and
                    (B) paid on the same date that the member receives 
                backpay under section 1341(c) of title 31, United 
                States Code, as added by the Government Employee Fair 
                Treatment Act of 2019, or as soon as practicable after 
                that date.
            (3) Treatment of bonuses.--Any bonus paid under this 
        subsection--
                    (A) shall be subject to any limitation on total 
                aggregate pay, including section 204(i)(1) of title 37, 
                United States Code; and
                    (B) is not part of the basic pay of a member for 
                any purpose.
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