Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act

Bill: 117-hr-5761
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Weber, Randy K., Sr. [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2021-10-27
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Latest action: action_date: 2021-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-10-27
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act</strong></p> <p>This bill provides increased locality pay rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are located in the pay locality designated as <em>Rest of U.S.</em> The Rest of U.S. GS (general schedule) locality is the default locality area that applies to GS employees in any city that does not fall within another specified GS locality.</p> <p>Such an employee shall not be subject to this bill if his or her official work site is not located within 100 miles of any pay locality other than Rest of U.S<em>.</em></p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5761 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 27, 2021 Mr. Weber of Texas (for himself, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana , Mr. Babin , Mr. Crawford , Mr. Cartwright , Mr. Bacon , Mr. Stauber , and Mr. Van Drew ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are located in the pay locality designated as Rest of U.S. , and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act . 2. Providing nearest other locality pay rate for certain Bureau of Prisons employees receiving Rest of U.S. locality rate Section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j) and by inserting after subsection (h) the following: (i) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the official worksite of an employee of the Bureau of Prisons that is otherwise located in the pay locality designated as Rest of U.S. shall be considered to be located in the nearest other pay locality established pursuant to this section. (2) An employee of the Bureau of Prisons shall not be subject to paragraph (1) if the official worksite of such employee is not located within 100 miles of any pay locality other than Rest of U.S. . (3) This subsection shall begin to apply during any pay period beginning on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection. .