Hazardous Duty Pay for Frontline Federal Workers Act

Bill: 116-hr-6655
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2020-05-01
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Aviation and airports

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Department of Homeland Security

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Transportation safety and security

Worker safety and health
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Hazardous Duty Pay for Frontline Federal Workers Act</b></p> <p>This bill temporarily entitles federal employees, including certain employees of the Veterans Health Administration and the Transportation Security Administration, who are exposed to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) during duty to a pay differential, as set by the Office of Personnel Management.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6655 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 1, 2020 Mr. Payne (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi , Mr. Correa , Ms. Titus , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Mr. Cleaver , and Ms. Barragán ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To provide hazardous duty pay for Federal employees who may be exposed to COVID–19, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hazardous Duty Pay for Frontline Federal Workers Act . 2. Pay differential for duty related to COVID–19 (a) In general Section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (e) (1) The Office shall establish a schedule or schedules of pay differentials for duty during which an employee is exposed to an individual who has (or who has been exposed to) COVID–19. (2) Under such regulations as the Office may prescribe, during the period beginning on March 15, 2020, and ending on September 30, 2020, an employee to whom chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 applies, and an employee appointed under chapter 73 or 74 of title 38, is entitled to be paid the differential under paragraph (1) for any period in which the employee is carrying out the duty described in such paragraph. . (b) TSA employees Section 111(d)(2) of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act ( 49 U.S.C. 44935 note) is amended by adding at the end the following: (C) Hazardous duty pay for COVID–19 The provisions of section 5545(e) of title 5, United States Code, shall to apply to any individual appointed under paragraph (1). .