3.0.0 3001 2025-10-24T17:42:54Z 2025-10-24T17:42:54Z Senate S S 2025-10-09 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3001 ssap00 Appropriations Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-10-10T01:13:36Z Shutdown Fairness Act 119 5801 HR 2025-10-21 Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. Related bill CRS Shutdown Fairness Act 119 3012 S 2025-10-23 Motion by Senator Thune to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 3012 was not invoked (Record Vote No. 585) made in Senate. Related bill CRS 2025-10-09 ssap00 Appropriations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. IntroReferral 2025-10-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress J000293 Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] Ron Johnson R WI N C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2025-10-09 True C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2025-10-09 True R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2025-10-09 True Y000064 Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] Todd Young R IN 2025-10-09 True S001198 Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] Dan Sullivan R AK 2025-10-14 False C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA 2025-10-15 False Government Operations and Politics Government Operations and Politics 2025-10-24T15:59:17Z 00 2025-10-09 Introduced in Senate 2025-10-24T17:41:24Z <p><strong>Shutdown Fairness Act</strong></p><p>This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees who work during a government shutdown.</p><p>Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide pay and allowances to excepted employees who are required to work during any period in which interim or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., a government shutdown).&nbsp;</p><p>Under current law, excepted employees are required to work during a government&nbsp;shutdown and are&nbsp;not paid until the government shutdown is over. This bill provides appropriations to pay excepted employees during a government shutdown. The bill also specifies that the term <em>excepted employee </em>includes certain contractors who support federal employees during a government shutdown.&nbsp;</p><p>A federal agency may not use the funds provided by this bill during any period in which continuing appropriations are in effect for the purpose of paying excepted employees of the agency.</p> Shutdown Fairness Act Display Title 45 Shutdown Fairness Act 2025-10-23T02:53:15Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Shutdown Fairness Act 2025-10-23T02:53:14Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal employees, and for other purposes. 2025-10-23T02:48:14Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-10-09T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s3001is/xml/BILLS-119s3001is.xml 2025-10-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. 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. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.