Title: FAIR Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act of 2019 or the FAIR Act
This bill increases by 3.6% in FY2020 the rates of basic pay for federal employees under the statutory pay systems (i.e., the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, and various schedules related to the Veterans Health Administration) and for prevailing rate employees.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 426 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 426

   To increase the rates of pay under the General Schedule and other 
statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 3.6 percent, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2019

  Mr. Schatz (for himself, Mr. Brown, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
Cardin, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Hirono, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Harris, 
 and Ms. Baldwin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
  and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To increase the rates of pay under the General Schedule and other 
statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 3.6 percent, 
                        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 ``Federal Adjustment of Income Rates 
Act of 2019'' or the ``FAIR Act''.

SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENT TO RATES OF PAY.

    (a) Statutory Pay Systems.--The adjustment in rates of basic pay 
for employees under the statutory pay systems (as defined in section 
5302 of title 5, United States Code) that takes effect in fiscal year 
2020 under section 5303 of title 5, United States Code, shall be an 
increase of 3.6 percent, and such adjustments shall be effective as of 
the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after 
January 1, 2020.
    (b) Prevailing Rate Employees.--The adjustment in rates of basic 
pay for the statutory pay systems that take place in fiscal year 2020 
under sections 5344 and 5348 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
equal to the percentage adjustment received by employees in the same 
location whose rates of basic pay are adjusted pursuant to the 
statutory pay systems under subsection (a) of this section and 5304 of 
title 5, United States Code. Prevailing rate employees at locations 
where there are no employees whose pay is increased pursuant to 
sections 5303 and 5304 of title 5 and prevailing rate employees 
described in section 5343(a)(5) of title 5, United States Code, shall 
be considered to be located in the pay locality designated as ``Rest of 
US'' pursuant to section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, for 
purposes of this subsection.
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