116 HR 301 IH: Providing Pay for Essential Employees Act U.S. House of Representatives 2019-01-08 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I116th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 301IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESJanuary 8, 2019Mr. Gibbs (for himself, Mr. Stivers, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Griffith, and Mrs. Brooks of Indiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on AppropriationsA BILLMaking appropriations for Federal employees working during the Government shutdown beginning on or about December 22, 2018, and for other purposes.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Providing Pay for Essential Employees Act.

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Payment of salaries of excepted Government employees

There are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to pay, during the period of a lapse in discretionary appropriations beginning on or about December 22, 2018, the salaries and expenses of any officer or employee of the Federal Government who is excepted from the furlough resulting from such lapse.