Support Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act

Bill: 113-hr-3246
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2013-10-04
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations

Coast guard

Department of Defense

Department of Homeland Security

Executive agency funding and structure

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Military procurement, research, weapons development

Public contracts and procurement
Latest action: action_date: 2014-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-10-04
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Support Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that all civilian employees and contractors of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Coast Guard serve to provide support to members of the Armed Forces. </p> <p>Amends the Pay Our Military Act (P.L. 113-39) to make FY2014 continuing appropriations for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for FY2014 are not in effect to provide for: (1) pay and allowances to all civilian personnel of DOD (and the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] in the case of the Coast Guard) (under such Act only personnel whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces performing active service); and (2) compensation to all employees of contractors of DOD, and DHS in the case of the Coast Guard (under such Act only contractors whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces performing active service). </p> <p>Requires the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard) to ensure that all civilian personnel of DOD and the Coast Guard who were not in &quot;retained&quot; or &quot;excepted&quot; status at any time during the period beginning on October 1, 2013, are treated as retained or excepted during the period for which such continuing appropriations are made available, effective as of the enactment of this Act.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3246 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 4, 2013 Mr. Turner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations , and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services , 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 A BILL To amend the Pay Our Military Act to ensure that all civilian and contractor employees of the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard are paid in the event of a Government shutdown.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Support Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act . 2. Continuing appropriations for employees and contractors of Department of Defense and reserve component personnel (a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that all civilian employees and contractors of the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard serve to provide support to members of the Armed Forces. (b) Amendments To Pay Our Military Act Subsection (a) of section 2 of the Pay Our Military Act (HR 3210 of the 113th Congress) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking the civilian personnel and inserting all civilian personnel ; and (B) by striking whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1) ; and (2) in paragraph (3)— (A) by striking pay and allowances to and inserting compensation to all employees of ; and (B) by striking whom the Secretary concerned determines are providing support to members of the Armed Forces described in paragraph (1) . (c) Treatment of previously furloughed employees Subsection (b) of such section is amended to read as follows: (b) Treatment of previously furloughed employees (1) In general Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard) shall ensure that all personnel described in paragraph (2) are treated as retained or excepted status, as those terms are used in the Office of Management and Budget Circular A–11, during the period for which continuing appropriations are made available pursuant to subsection (a), effective as of the date of the enactment of the Support Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act. (2) Personnel described Personnel described in this paragraph are civilian personnel of the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard that the Secretary of Defense (or the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard) determined were not in retained or excepted status, as those terms are used in the Office of Management and Budget Circular A–11, at any time during the period beginning on October 1, 2013, and ending on the date of the enactment of the Support Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act. .