[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2759 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2759

To prevent paid furloughs of Federal and District of Columbia employees 
                during periods of lapsed appropriations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 1995

   Mr. Bono introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
To prevent paid furloughs of Federal and District of Columbia employees 
                during periods of lapsed appropriations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Furlough Prevention Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. PREVENTION OF PAID FURLOUGHS OF FEDERAL AND DISTRICT OF 
              COLUMBIA EMPLOYEES DURING PERIODS OF LAPSED 
              APPROPRIATIONS.

    Notwithstanding sections 1341 and 1342 of title 31, United States 
Code--
            (1) no officer or employee of the United States Government 
        or of the District of Columbia government may be furloughed due 
        to any period of lapsed appropriations; and
            (2) the employment of any such officer or employee during 
        any such period shall create an obligation by the government 
        involved to compensate the officer or employee, after the end 
        of the period, at the standard rate of compensation for the 
        officer or employee immediately before the period.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``period of lapsed 
appropriations'', when used with respect to any officer or employee, 
means any period during which appropriations are not available due to 
the absence of the timely enactment of any Act or joint resolution 
appropriating funds for the department or agency in which the officer 
or employee is employed.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Section 2 shall apply to any period of lapsed appropriations (or 
portion of such a period) that occurs after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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