Title: A bill to provide for the compensation of Federal and other government employees affected by the current lapse in appropriations.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This bill compensates federal and District of Columbia employees who are affected by the lapse in appropriations that began on or about December 22, 2018. The bill provides FY2019 appropriations for the affected agencies to compensate the employees at their standard rate of compensation during the lapse in appropriations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 214 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 214

    To provide for the compensation of Federal and other government 
       employees affected by the current lapse in appropriations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2019

  Mr. Gardner introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the compensation of Federal and other government 
       employees affected by the current lapse in appropriations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL AND OTHER GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES 
              AFFECTED BY THE LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``agency'' means each establishment in the 
        Federal Government;
            (2) the term ``covered lapse in appropriations'' means the 
        lapse in appropriations that began on or about December 22, 
        2018;
            (3) the term ``District of Columbia public employer'' 
        means--
                    (A) the District of Columbia Courts;
                    (B) the Public Defender Service for the District of 
                Columbia; or
                    (C) the District of Columbia government; and
            (4) the term ``excepted employee'' means an excepted 
        employee or an employee performing emergency work, as such 
        terms are defined by the Office of Personnel Management or the 
        appropriate District of Columbia public employer, as 
        applicable.
    (b) Pay.--During the period of the covered lapse in appropriations, 
the head of each agency or District of Columbia public employer that is 
subject to the covered lapse in appropriations shall compensate, at the 
employee's standard rate of compensation--
            (1) each employee of the agency or of a District of 
        Columbia public employer who was furloughed as a result of the 
        covered lapse in appropriations; and
            (2) each excepted employee who is required to perform work 
        during the covered lapse in appropriations.
    (c) Funding.--
            (1) In general.--There are appropriated for the fiscal year 
        ending September 30, 2019, out of any money in the Treasury not 
        otherwise appropriated, to the head of each agency or District 
        of Columbia public employer that is subject to the covered 
        lapse in appropriations such sums as are necessary to carry out 
        this section.
            (2) Charging to full-year appropriations.--Expenditures 
        made pursuant to this Act shall be charged to the applicable 
        appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which 
        such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is 
        contained is enacted into law.
            (3) Interaction with other law.--For purposes of section 
        1341(c) of title 31, United States Code, the appropriations 
        provided under paragraph (1) shall constitute an end of the 
        covered lapse in appropriations.
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