Title: PAYSTUB Act
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
Presidential Accountability for Yearly Submission of The United States' Budget Act or the PAYSTUB Act
This bill restricts the use of federal funds for the salaries or expenses of political employees if the President's budget is not submitted to Congress by the first Monday in February as required by law.
Specifically, if the President's budget is not submitted to Congress on or before the first Monday in February of a year, federal funds may not be used for the salary or expenses of any political employee during the period beginning on the first Tuesday of February of that year and ending on the date the budget is submitted.
On the earliest possible date after the President's budget is submitted, political employees whose salaries or expenses were not paid during a period in which the President's budget had not yet been submitted must be paid for that period.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9190 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9190

  To amend title 31, United States Code, to limit the use of Federal 
   funds for the salaries or expenses of political employees if the 
President's annual budget submission to Congress is late, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 18, 2022

Mr. Carter of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Emmer, and Mr. Weber of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 31, United States Code, to limit the use of Federal 
   funds for the salaries or expenses of political employees if the 
President's annual budget submission to Congress is late, 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 ``Presidential Accountability for 
Yearly Submission of The United States' Budget Act'' or the ``PAYSTUB 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR POLITICAL EMPLOYEE 
              SALARIES AND EXPENSES IF PRESIDENT'S BUDGET IS LATE.

    Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(j)(1) If the budget under subsection (a) is not submitted to 
Congress on or before the first Monday in February of a year, during 
the period beginning on the first Tuesday of February of such year and 
ending on the date the budget is submitted, no Federal funds may be 
obligated or expended for the salary or expenses of any political 
employee.
    ``(2) Each political employee whose salary and expenses are not 
paid by operation of paragraph (1) shall be paid for the period the 
limitation under such subsection was in effect at the employee's 
standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after such period 
ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.
    ``(3) In this subsection, the term `political employee' means any 
individual--
            ``(A) occupying a position described under sections 5312 
        through 5316 of title 5 (relating to the Executive Schedule);
            ``(B) serving under a noncareer appointment in the Senior 
        Executive Service, as defined under paragraph (7) of section 
        3132(a) of such title; or
            ``(C) occupying a position in the executive branch of the 
        Government of a confidential or policy-determining character 
        under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5, Code of 
        Federal Regulations.''.
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