An act to provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret Service, and for other purposes
PL 115-160 (H.R.3731), enacted 04/03/2018

132 STAT. 1246 
PUBLIC LAW 115–160—APR. 3, 2018 
Public Law 115–160 
115th Congress 
An Act 
To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret Service, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secret Service Recruitment 
and Retention Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2018 FOR 
PROTECTIVE SERVICES. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 2 of the Overtime Pay for Protec-
tive Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended— 
(A) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘IN 2016’’ and 
inserting ‘‘DURING 2016 THROUGH 2018’’; 
(B) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘2016’’ and inserting 
‘‘2016, 2017, or 2018’’; and 
(C) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (1) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, including section 5547(a) of title 5, United States Code, 
and only to the extent that an appropriation is provided specifi-
cally in an appropriations Act for premium pay in excess of 
the annual equivalent of the limitation on the rate of pay 
contained in section 5547(a), any covered employee may receive 
premium pay during 2016, 2017, and 2018, to the extent pro-
vided under section 118 of the Treasury and General Govern-
ment Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note).’’. 
(2) CLARIFYING PROVISION.—Section 118 of the Treasury 
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 
5547 note) is amended, in the first sentence, by inserting ‘‘or 
3056A’’ after ‘‘section 3056(a)’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by subsection 
(a) shall take effect as if enacted on December 31, 2016. 
(c) REPORT ON EXTENSIONS.—Not later than January 30, 2018, 
and January 30, 2019, the Director of the Secret Service shall 
submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs of the Senate a report on the effects of the amendment 
made by subsection (a)(2). The report shall include, with respect 
to the previous calendar year— 
5 USC 5547 note. 
Secret Service 
Recruitment and 
Retention Act 
of 2018. 
5 USC 101 note. 
Apr. 3, 2018 
[H.R. 3731] 
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132 STAT. 1247 
PUBLIC LAW 115–160—APR. 3, 2018 
(1) the total number of United States Secret Service per-
sonnel receiving premium pay above the premium pay limita-
tion in subsection (a) of section 5547 of title 5, United States 
Code; 
(2) the total amount of premium pay for that calendar 
year paid to United States Secret Service personnel above the 
premium pay limitation in such subsection; 
(3) the mean and median amount of premium pay paid 
to United States Secret Service personnel above the premium 
pay limitation in such subsection; 
(4) the greatest amount paid to United States Secret 
Service personnel above the premium pay limitation in such 
subsection and the number of employees who received that 
amount; 
(5) notwithstanding the amendments made by subsection 
(a), the total number of United States Secret Service personnel 
who were not fully compensated for service because of the 
premium pay earnings limitation in section 118 of the Treasury 
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 
5547 note); 
(6) the total amount of premium pay United States Secret 
Service personnel would have been paid but for the premium 
pay earnings limitation in such section; and 
(7) a list of United States Secret Service personnel who, 
within the calendar year, received premium pay above the 
premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of 
title 5, United States Code, and separated from the agency, 
including the type of separation in each case. 
SEC. 3. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED 
STATES. 
Not later than 1 year after the effective date of this section, 
the Comptroller General of the United States shall complete a 
study and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House 
of Representatives, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House 
of Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the extent of the 
progress made by the United States Secret Service in implementing 
the recommendations of the United States Secret Service Protective 
Mission Panel, including in particular those items pertaining to 
training and personnel enumerated in the Executive Summary to 
Report from the United States Secret Service Protective Mission 
Lists. 
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132 STAT. 1248 
PUBLIC LAW 115–160—APR. 3, 2018 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3731: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 115–435, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Oversight and Government 
Reform). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: 
Vol. 163 (2017): Dec. 5, considered and passed House. 
Vol. 164 (2018): Mar. 19, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Mar. 21, House concurred in Senate amendment. 
Panel to the Secretary of Homeland Security dated December 15, 
2014. 
Approved April 3, 2018. 
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