Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-861
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2017-04-05
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: 2017-04-07
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 35.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-04-05
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 201</b><b>7</b></p> <p>This bill requires federal employees furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after April 28, 2017, to be compensated for the period of the lapse on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave. The bill addresses a lapse in appropriations scheduled to occur if FY2017 appropriations legislation is not enacted prior to the expiration of the continuing resolution that currently funds most federal agencies through April 28, 2017. </p>

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 35 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 861 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 5 (legislative day, April 4), 2017 Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Leahy , Mr. Blumenthal , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Schatz , Mr. Carper , Mr. Warner , Mr. Markey , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Udall , Ms. Hirono , Mrs. Shaheen , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Kaine , Mrs. Murray , and Mr. Brown ) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time April 7, 2017 Read the second time and placed on the calendar A BILL To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by lapses in appropriations.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2017 . 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 any lapse in appropriations that begins on or after April 28, 2017; 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. .

April 7, 2017 Read the second time and placed on the calendar