Title: Locality Pay Equity Act of 2021
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Locality Pay Equity Act of 2021
This bill (1) prohibits the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from defining more than one local wage area for prevailing rate employees within a pay locality, except with respect to the pay locality designated as Rest of United States; and (2) requires the OPM to ensure that this bill shall not have the effect of reducing the rate of basic pay for an individual serving as a prevailing rate employee.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1561 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1561

To amend title 5, United States Code, to limit the number of local wage 
        areas allowable within a General Schedule pay locality.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 11, 2021

    Mr. Casey (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Murphy) 
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 amend title 5, United States Code, to limit the number of local wage 
        areas allowable within a General Schedule pay locality.

    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 ``Locality Pay Equity Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. LIMITING THE NUMBER OF LOCAL WAGE AREAS DEFINED WITHIN A 
              GENERAL SCHEDULE PAY LOCALITY.

    (a) Local Wage Area Limitation.--Section 5343(a) of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B)(i), by striking ``(but such'' and 
        all that follows through ``are employed)'';
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (3) in paragraph (5), by striking the period after 
        ``Islands'' and inserting ``; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) the Office of Personnel Management shall define not 
        more than 1 local wage area within a pay locality, except that 
        this paragraph shall not apply to the pay locality designated 
        as `Rest of United States'.''.
    (b) General Schedule Pay Locality Defined.--Section 5342(a) of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period after 
        ``employee'' and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) `pay locality' has the meaning given that term under 
        section 5302.''.

SEC. 3. REGULATIONS.

    The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe 
any regulations necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act, 
including regulations to ensure that the enactment of this Act shall 
not have the effect of reducing any rate of basic pay payable to any 
individual who is serving as a prevailing rate employee (as defined 
under section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code).

SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply on and after the first 
day of the first full pay period beginning at least 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
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