Title: Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 24 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                         Calendar No. 3
116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 24

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 3, 2019

Mr. Cardin (for himself, Ms. Collins, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. 
  Kaine, Mr. Reed, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Markey, Mr. Jones, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
  Leahy, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Coons, Ms. Smith, Mr. Carper, Mr. Wyden, 
Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Warren, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. 
 Duckworth, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Warner, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. 
    Blumenthal, Mr. Heinrich, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Harris, and Mr. 
  Whitehouse) introduced the following bill; which was read the first 
                                  time

                            January 4, 2019

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


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

    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 ``Government Employee Fair Treatment 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL AND OTHER GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES 
              AFFECTED BY A LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``An officer'' and 
        inserting ``Except as specified in this subchapter or any other 
        provision of law, an officer''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c)(1) In this subsection--
            ``(A) the term `covered lapse in appropriations' means any 
        lapse in appropriations that begins on or after December 22, 
        2018;
            ``(B) the term `District of Columbia public employer' 
        means--
                    ``(i) the District of Columbia Courts;
                    ``(ii) the Public Defender Service for the District 
                of Columbia; or
                    ``(iii) the District of Columbia government;
            ``(C) the term `employee' includes an officer; and
            ``(D) 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.
    ``(2) Each employee of the United States Government or of a 
District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a 
covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the 
lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to 
perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for 
such work, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date 
possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of 
scheduled pay dates.
    ``(3) During a covered lapse in appropriations, each excepted 
employee who is required to perform work shall be entitled to use leave 
under chapter 63 of title 5, or any other applicable law governing the 
use of leave by the excepted employee, for which compensation shall be 
paid at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations 
ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.''.
                                                         Calendar No. 3

116th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                 S. 24

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                            January 4, 2019

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar