[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 984 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 984

  To provide an 8-percent interim geographic pay increase for certain 
               Federal employees, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 18, 1993

 Mr. Machtley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Post Office and Civil Service

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide an 8-percent interim geographic pay increase for certain 
               Federal employees, 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. PAY INCREASE UNDER SECTION 302 OF FEPCA.

    (a) In General.--Effective as of the first applicable pay period 
beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act--
            (1) pay for employees described in subsection (b) shall be 
        determined as if the President had provided for an 8 percent 
        increase with respect to such employees under section 302 of 
        the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 
        (hereinafter in this Act referred to as ``FEPCA''); and
            (2) each of the metropolitan statistical areas named in 
        subsection (b) shall, for purposes of this section, be 
        considered to constitute an ``area'' within the meaning of such 
        section 302.
    (b) Applicability.--The pay increase provided by subsection (a) 
applies with respect to any General Schedule employee (including an 
employee covered by the performance management and recognition system 
under chapter 54 of title 5, United States Code) whose duty station is 
within--
            (1) the Boston, MA Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area;
            (2) the New Bedford, MA Metropolitan Statistical Area;
            (3) the Fall River, MA-RI Primary Metropolitan Statistical 
        Area;
            (4) the Pawtucket-Woonsocket-Attleboro, RI-MA Primary 
        Metropolitan Statistical Area;
            (5) the Providence, RI Primary Metropolitan Statistical 
        Area; or
            (6) any part of Bristol County, MA not included under any 
        of the preceding provisions of this subsection.
    (c) Administration, Reduction, and Termination Rules.--(1) The pay 
increase provided by subsection (a) shall be administered, subject to 
reduction or termination, and otherwise treated, as if it had been 
provided for under section 302 of FEPCA.
    (2) The provisions of such section 302 which relate to extending a 
pay increase under such section to special-pay-rate employees and 
employees who would not otherwise be covered by such increase shall 
also apply with respect to the increase provided by subsection (a).

SEC. 2. PAY INCREASE FOR PREVAILING RATE EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
rates of pay for each wage schedule which is applicable, under 
subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, to 
prevailing rate employees (as defined by section 5342(a)(2) of such 
title) within the Narragansett Bay Wage Area or the Boston, MA Wage 
Area shall be increased by 8 percent, effective as of the first 
applicable pay period beginning on or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
    (b) Coordination Rules.--(1) If an adjustment under subsection (a) 
is to be made in a rate of pay as of the same date as any other 
adjustment affecting such rate, the adjustment under subsection (a) 
shall be made first.
    (2) No authority under the provisions of law referred to in section 
1(c)(2) may be exercised with respect to any class of employees whose 
pay is increased (or to be increased) as a result of this section.

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