Title: Pay Our Protectors Act of 2019
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
Pay Our Protectors Act of 2019
This bill provides continuing appropriations for the pay and allowances of certain employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) who are required to work without pay during a lapse in appropriations for FY2019.
The bill applies to DHS and DOJ employees who are excepted employees or performing emergency work during a lapse in FY2019 appropriations.
The employees must also be

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 111 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 111

    To make continuing appropriations for certain employees of the 
 Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice in the 
             event of a shutdown of the Federal Government.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 10, 2019

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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To make continuing appropriations for certain employees of the 
 Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice in the 
             event of a shutdown of the Federal Government.

    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 Protectors Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              JUSTICE.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``covered excepted 
employee'' means an officer or employee--
            (1) who is an officer or employee of an agency that is 
        subject to a lapse in appropriations during fiscal year 2019;
            (2) who is--
                    (A) an officer or employee of--
                            (i) U.S. Customs and Border Protection;
                            (ii) U.S. Immigration and Customs 
                        Enforcement;
                            (iii) the Transportation Safety 
                        Administration;
                            (iv) the Coast Guard;
                            (v) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or
                            (vi) the Central Intelligence Agency;
                    (B) an attorney employed by the Department of 
                Justice who prosecutes criminal offenses; or
                    (C) an immigration judge employed by the Department 
                of Justice; and
            (3) who is an excepted employee or an employee performing 
        emergency work, as such terms are defined by the Office of 
        Personnel Management.
    (b) Appropriation.--There are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 
2019, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to 
the head of each agency that employs 1 or more covered excepted 
employees for any period during which interim or full-year 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 are not in effect such sums as are 
necessary to provide pay and allowances to each covered excepted 
employee of the agency.
    (c) Termination.--Appropriations made available and authority 
granted under subsection (b) shall be available to the head of an 
agency until the earliest of--
            (1) the enactment into law of a regular appropriations Act 
        providing appropriations for the agency for fiscal year 2019;
            (2) the enactment into law of a law providing continuing or 
        regular appropriations for the agency for fiscal year 2019 that 
        does not provide appropriations for the purpose for which 
        amounts are appropriated under subsection (b); or
            (3) January 1, 2020.
    (d) Application.--For a lapse in appropriations that is in effect 
on the date of enactment of this Act, each covered excepted employee 
shall be compensated for work performed during the lapse in 
appropriations during the period before such date of enactment at the 
standard rate of compensation for the covered excepted employee at the 
earliest date possible after such date of enactment.
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