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<meta><dc:title>115 HR 3731 ENR: To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret Service, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>3731</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="115">One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret Service, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d31052e62" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 2018</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d31052e72" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2018 FOR PROTECTIVE SERVICES.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e76" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/a" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amendments</inline>.—</heading><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e83" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/a/1" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 2 of the Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 2016 (<ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5547">5 U.S.C. 5547 note</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><subparagraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e98" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/a/1/A" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>in the section heading, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText><headingText class="smallCaps"><b>in 2016</b></headingText></quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText><headingText class="smallCaps"><b>during 2016 through 2018</b></headingText></quotedText>”;</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e115" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/a/1/B" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>in subsection (a), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2016</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2016, 2017, or 2018</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e126" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/a/1/C" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="C">(C) </num><content>in subsection (b), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> paragraph (1) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5547/a">section 5547(a) of title 5, United States Code</ref>, and only to the extent that an appropriation is provided specifically 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 provided under section 118 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (<ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5547">5 U.S.C. 5547 note</ref>).”</content></paragraph></quotedContent>.</content></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e154" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/a/2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clarifying provision</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 118 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (<ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5547">5 U.S.C. 5547 note</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>, in the first sentence, by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or 3056A</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>section 3056(a)</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e172" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on December 31, 2016.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e180" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/c" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Report on Extensions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>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 Representatives 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—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e188" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/c/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>the total number of United States Secret Service personnel receiving premium pay above the premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5547">section 5547 of title 5, United States Code</ref>;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e196" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/c/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>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;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e200" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/c/3" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>the mean and median amount of premium pay paid to United States Secret Service personnel above the premium pay limitation in such subsection;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e204" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/c/4" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>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;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e208" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/c/5" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><content>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 (<ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5547">5 U.S.C. 5547 note</ref>);</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e216" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/c/6" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>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</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d31052e220" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s2/c/7" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="7">(7) </num><content>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 <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5547">section 5547 of title 5, United States Code</ref>, and separated from the agency, including the type of separation in each case.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="d31052e229" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3731/s3" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  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 Panel to the Secretary of Homeland Security dated December 15, 2014.</content></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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