Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2274
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2017-12-21
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: 2018-12-22
text: Held at the desk.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-12-21
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 December 22, 2017, to be compensated for the period of the lapse on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave. The bill addresses a lapse in appropriations scheduled to occur if FY2018 appropriations legislation is not enacted prior to the expiration of the continuing resolution that currently funds federal agencies through December 22, 2017. </p>

action_date: 2018-12-21
action_desc: Passed Senate without amendment
text: <p><b>Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 201</b><b>7</b></p> <p>(Sec. 2) This bill requires federal employees furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2017, to be compensated for the period of the lapse on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave. </p>

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 290 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2274 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 21, 2017 Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen , Ms. Hirono , Mr. Carper , Mr. Markey , Mr. Schatz , Mrs. Gillibrand , Ms. Hassan , Mrs. Shaheen , Mr. Durbin , Mr. Warner , Mr. Leahy , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Udall , Mrs. Murray , Mr. Brown , Mr. Blumenthal , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Kaine , Ms. Warren , and Mrs. Feinstein ) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time January 3, 2018 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 December 22, 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. .

January 3, 2018 Read the second time and placed on the calendar

tv_txt: 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2274 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT 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 December 22, 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. .

Passed the Senate December 21, 2018. Secretary