Never Again Act

Bill: 116-hr-710
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-01-22
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations

Executive agency funding and structure

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Never Again Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires that excepted federal and District of Columbia public employees who must perform work during a lapse in appropriations (i.e., a government shutdown) be paid, at their standard rate of pay, on scheduled pay dates.</p> <p>Under current law, such employees must be paid at the earliest possible date after the lapse in appropriations ends. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 710 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 22, 2019 Mr. Welch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide pay to employees excepted from furlough during a Government shutdown, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Never Again Act . 2. Providing salaries to excepted employees during a Government shutdown Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, is amended in subsection (c), as added by the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following: (2) (A) Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after such lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. (B) (i) With respect to the lapse in appropriations beginning on or around December 22, 2018— (I) each excepted employee who was required to perform work during the period beginning on the first day of such lapse and ending on the date of enactment of the Never Again Act shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the date of enactment, regardless of scheduled pay dates; and (II) for the remainder of such lapse, each excepted employee who is required to perform work during such remainder shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, on the employee’s scheduled pay dates. (ii) During any covered lapse in appropriations beginning after the lapse in appropriations described in clause (i) ends, 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, on the employee’s scheduled pay dates. (iii) There are appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this subparagraph. .