3.0.0 3066 2026-07-06T13:52:40Z 2026-07-06T13:52:40Z Senate S S 2025-10-28 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3066 ssap00 Appropriations Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-10-28T21:44:18Z Shutdown Fairness Act 119 3012 S 2025-11-07 Upon reconsideration, cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 53 - 43. Record Vote Number: 609. Related bill CRS Shutdown Fairness Act 119 5801 HR 2025-10-21 Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations. Related bill CRS 2025-10-28 ssap00 Appropriations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. IntroReferral 2025-10-28 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000393 Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] John Kennedy R LA N Government Operations and Politics Government Operations and Politics 2026-03-30T18:56:00Z 00 2025-10-28 Introduced in Senate 2026-07-06T13:50:08Z Pay the People Act

This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees during a government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations.

Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments to agency employees (including contractors and members of the Armed Forces on active duty) during any period in which interim continuing appropriations or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., a government shutdown).

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 employees of the agency.

The bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2025. 

]]> Pay the People Act Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Pay the People Act 2025-11-06T06:23:13Z Introduced in Senate IS Display Title 45 Pay the People Act 2025-11-06T06:23:13Z Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to appropriate funds for pay and allowances of Federal employees during a lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes. 2025-11-06T06:18:18Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-10-28T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s3066is/xml/BILLS-119s3066is.xml 2025-10-28 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.