Border Patrol Pay Security Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2335
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2019-04-18
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration

Department of Homeland Security

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Law enforcement officers

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2019-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-04-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Border Patrol Pay Security Act of 2019</strong></p> <p>This bill changes how border patrol agents receive overtime pay when working up to 100 hours in a two-week period. For hours worked above 80, an agent shall receive at least one and one-half times the agent's regular hourly rate. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2335 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 18, 2019 Mr. Cuellar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to ensure compensation for certain hours of work for border patrol agents, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Border Patrol Pay Security Act of 2019 . 2. Fair labor standards pay for border patrol agents (a) Purpose The purposes of this Act are to strengthen U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ensure that border patrol agents are compensated for certain hours of work with premium pay for certain hours of overtime work. (b) Fair labor standards act premium pay Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 207 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (t) Employment as a border patrol agent No public agency shall be deemed to have violated subsection (a) with respect to the employment of any border patrol agent, as defined in paragraph (1) of section 5550 of title 5, United States Code, if, during a work period of 14 consecutive days, the border patrol agent receives compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he or she is employed for all hours of work from 80 hours to 100 hours. Payments required under this section shall be— (1) in addition to any payments made under such section 5550; (2) made notwithstanding any pay limitations set forth in that title; and (3) paid as additional half-time as the straight time portion shall be deemed paid for the hours for which payments under such section 5550 have been made. . (c) Technical and conforming amendments Section 13(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. section 213(a)) is amended by striking paragraph (18).