Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-24
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2019-01-03
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations

District of Columbia

Employee leave

Executive agency funding and structure

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Became Public Law No: 116-1.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated 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>

action_date: 2019-01-10
action_desc: Passed Senate
text: <p><b>Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated 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>

action_date: 2019-01-11
action_desc: Passed House
text: <p><b>Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated 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>

action_date: 2019-01-16
action_desc: Public Law
text: <p><b>Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires employees of the federal government or a District of Columbia public employer who are furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2018, to be compensated for the period of the lapse. The employees must be compensated 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: 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 24 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To provide for the compensation of Federal and other government employees affected by lapses in appropriations.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 . 2. Compensation for Federal and other government 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, 2018; (B) the term District of Columbia public employer means— (i) the District of Columbia Courts; (ii) the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia; or (iii) the District of Columbia government; (C) the term employee includes an officer; and (D) 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 or the appropriate District of Columbia public employer, as applicable. (2) 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, 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 January 10, 2019. Secretary

tv_txt: One Hundred Sixteenth Congress of the United States of America 1st Session Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen S. 24 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To provide for the compensation of Federal and other government employees affected by lapses in appropriations.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 . 2. Compensation for Federal and other government 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, 2018; (B) the term District of Columbia public employer means— (i) the District of Columbia Courts; (ii) the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia; or (iii) the District of Columbia government; (C) the term employee includes an officer; and (D) 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 or the appropriate District of Columbia public employer, as applicable. (2) 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, 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. .

Speaker of the House of Representatives Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 3 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 24 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 3, 2019 Mr. Cardin (for himself, Ms. Collins , Mrs. Feinstein , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Kaine , Mr. Reed , Ms. Hirono , Mr. Markey , Mr. Jones , Mr. Durbin , Mr. Leahy , Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Coons , Ms. Smith , Mr. Carper , Mr. Wyden , Mrs. Shaheen , Ms. Hassan , Ms. Warren , Ms. Cantwell , Ms. Klobuchar , Ms. Duckworth , Mr. Bennet , Mr. Manchin , Mr. Warner , Ms. Cortez Masto , Mr. Blumenthal , Mr. Heinrich , Mrs. Gillibrand , Ms. Harris , and Mr. Whitehouse ) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time January 4, 2019 Read the second time and placed on the calendar A BILL To provide for the compensation of Federal and other government employees affected by lapses in appropriations.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 . 2. Compensation for Federal and other government 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, 2018; (B) the term District of Columbia public employer means— (i) the District of Columbia Courts; (ii) the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia; or (iii) the District of Columbia government; (C) the term employee includes an officer; and (D) 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 or the appropriate District of Columbia public employer, as applicable. (2) 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, 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 4, 2019 Read the second time and placed on the calendar