Disaster Response Workforce Flexibility Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4611
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Demings, Val Butler [D-FL-10]
Introduced: 2017-12-11
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Natural disasters
Latest action: action_date: 2017-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-12-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Disaster Response Workforce Flexibility Act of 2017</strong></p> <p>This bill authorizes employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) performing duties directly related to, or in support of, disaster preparation, response, and recovery efforts to be paid an amount of premium pay during fiscal years 2017 or 2018 to the extent that the total of basic pay and such premium pay for any pay period does not exceed the annual rate of basic pay for level II of the Executive Schedule.</p> <p>Such additional pay shall not be considered to be basic pay and shall not be used in computing a lump-sum payment for accumulated and accrued annual leave upon separation from service.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4611 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 11, 2017 Mrs. Demings (for herself and Ms. Plaskett ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform A BILL To provide an increase in premium pay for certain employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Disaster Response Workforce Flexibility Act of 2017 . 2. Premium pay exception for FEMA employees (a) Definition of covered employee In this section, the term covered employee means any employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who, during any of fiscal years 2017 or 2018, performs duties directly related to, or in support of, disaster preparation, response, and recovery efforts. (b) Exception for limitation on premium pay Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during fiscal years 2017 and 2018, section 5547(a) of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to any covered employee to the extent that its application would prevent the covered employee from receiving premium pay, except that such premium pay shall not be payable to a covered employee to the extent that the aggregate of the covered employee's basic and premium pay for the year would exceed the rate of basic pay payable for a position at level II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of such title. (c) Treatment of additional pay If subsection (b) results in the payment of additional premium pay to a covered employee of a type that is normally creditable as basic pay for retirement or any other purpose, that additional pay shall not— (1) be considered to be basic pay of the covered employee for any purpose; or (2) be used in computing a lump-sum payment to the covered employee for accumulated and accrued annual leave under section 5551 or section 5552 of title 5, United States Code. (d) Aggregate limit With respect to the application of section 5307 of title 5, United States Code, the payment of any additional premium pay to a covered employee as a result of subsection (b) shall not be counted as part of the aggregate compensation of the covered employee. (e) Effective date This section shall take effect as if enacted on October 1, 2016.