Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-2035
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2015-09-15
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations

Employee leave

Executive agency funding and structure

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2015-09-16
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 229.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-09-15
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2015</b></p> <p>This bill requires federal employees furloughed or required to work due to a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after October 1, 2015, to be compensated after the lapse in appropriations ends. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations are permitted to use leave. The bill addresses a lapse in appropriations scheduled to occur if FY2016 appropriations legislation is not enacted prior to the beginning of the fiscal year on October 1, 2015. </p>

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 229 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2035 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 15, 2015 Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Reid , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Carper , Mrs. Gillibrand , Ms. Hirono , Mr. Kaine , Mr. Leahy , Ms. Mikulski , Mrs. Shaheen , and Mr. Warner ) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time September 16, 2015 Read the second time and placed on the calendar A BILL To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by a lapse in appropriations.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2015 . 2. Compensation for Federal 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 a lapse in appropriations that begins on or after October 1, 2015; and (B) 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. (2) Each Federal employee 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. .

September 16, 2015 Read the second time and placed on the calendar