Title: Pay our Homeland Heroes Act
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Pay our Homeland Heroes Act
This bill provides FY2019 continuing appropriations for (1) the pay and allowances of members and employees of the U.S. Coast Guard, and (2) the salaries and expenses of law enforcement and customs and border protection officers within the Department of Homeland Security.
The bill provides the continuing appropriations for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2019 are not in effect.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 815 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 815

 To provide, in the event of a Government shutdown during fiscal year 
 2019, continuing appropriations to members and employees of the Coast 
  Guard and law enforcement officers and custom and border protection 
  officers within the Department of Homeland Security, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 28, 2019

   Mr. Kelly of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide, in the event of a Government shutdown during fiscal year 
 2019, continuing appropriations to members and employees of the Coast 
  Guard and law enforcement officers and custom and border protection 
  officers within the Department of Homeland Security, 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 ``Pay our Homeland Heroes Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COAST GUARD AND LAW ENFORCEMENT 
              OFFICERS AND CUSTOM AND BORDER PROTECTION OFFICERS IN THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

    (a) In General.--There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 
2019, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for 
any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for fiscal 
year 2019 are not in effect--
            (1) such sums as are necessary to provide pay and 
        allowances to members and employees of the Coast Guard; and
            (2) such sums as are necessary to provide the salary and 
        expenses of any law enforcement officer (as that term is 
        defined in section 8401(17) of title 5, United States Code) or 
        customs and border protection officer (as that term is defined 
        in section 8401(36) of such title) within the Department of 
        Homeland Security.
    (b) Availability.--Appropriations and funds made available and 
authority granted pursuant to subsection (a) 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 in subsection (a).
            (2) The enactment into law of the applicable regular or 
        continuing appropriations resolution or other Act without any 
        appropriation for such purpose.
    (c) Backpay.--With respect to the period of a lapse in the 
appropriations described in subsection (a) beginning on or around 
December 22, 2018, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, 
compensation provided by this section shall be considered to be 
payments made in accordance with subsection (c) of section 1341 of 
title 31, United States Code, as added by the Government Employee Fair 
Treatment Act of 2019.
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