[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. 998 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 998

To simplify and consolidate the pay system for the United States Secret 
          Service Uniformed Division, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 9, 1997

  Mr. Warner (for himself, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Robb, and Mr. Sarbanes) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                   Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To simplify and consolidate the pay system for the United States Secret 
          Service Uniformed Division, 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. RATES OF BASIC PAY FOR THE UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE 
              UNIFORMED DIVISION.

    (a) New Rates of Basic Pay.--Section 501 of the District of 
Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, (District of Columbia 
Code, section 4-416), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``Interior'' and all 
        that follows through ``Treasury,'' and inserting ``Interior'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b)(3);
            (3) in subsection (b)(3) (as redesignated)--
                    (A) by striking ``or to officers and members of the 
                United States Secret Service Uniformed Division''; and
                    (B) by striking ``subsection (b) of this section'' 
                and inserting ``this subsection''; and
            (4) by adding after subsection (b) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(c)(1) The annual rates of basic compensation of officers and 
members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division, serving 
in classes corresponding or similar to those in the salary schedule in 
section 101 (District of Columbia Code, section 4-406), shall be fixed 
in accordance with the following schedule of rates:


      

                                                ``SALARY SCHEDULE                                               
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                                                                    Service steps                               
       Salary class and title       ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       1             2             3      4      5      6      7      8      9  
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Class 1: Private                     29,21   30,088              31,55  33,00  35,33  37,68  39,12  40,59  42,05
                                         5                           9      9      1      1      8      3      2
Class 4: Sergeant                    39,76   41,747              43,72  45,71  47,71  49,71                     
                                         9                           8      8      5      3                     
Class 5: Lieutenant                  45,14   47,411              49,66  51,92  54,18                            
                                         8                           3      4      0                            
Class 7: Captain                     52,52   55,155              57,78  60,38                                   
                                         3                           8      8                                   
Class 8: Inspector                   60,88   63,918              66,97  70,02                                   
                                         6                           7      9                                   
Class 9: Deputy Chief                71,43   76,260              81,11  85,95                                   
                                         3                           3      0                                   
Class 10: Assistant Chief            84,69   90,324              95,96                                          
                                         4                           7                                          
Class 11: Chief of the United        98,38  104,923                                                             
 States Secret Service Uniformed         3                                                                      
 Division                                                                                                       
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    ``(2) Effective at the beginning of the first applicable pay period 
commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an 
adjustment takes effect under section 5303 of title 5, United States 
Code (or any subsequent similar provision of law), in the rates of pay 
under the General Schedule (or any pay system that may supersede such 
schedule), the annual rates of basic compensation of officers and 
members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division shall be 
adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury by an amount equal to the 
percentage of such annual rate of pay which corresponds to the overall 
percentage of the adjustment made in the rates of pay under the General 
Schedule.
    ``(3) Locality-based comparability payments authorized under 
section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, shall be applicable to the 
basic pay under this section, except locality-based comparability 
payments may not be paid at a rate which, when added to the rate of 
basic pay otherwise payable to the officer or member, would cause the 
total to exceed the rate of basic pay payable for level IV of the 
Executive Schedule.
    ``(4) Pay may not be paid, by reason of any provision of this 
subsection (disregarding any comparability payment payable under 
Federal law), at a rate in excess of the rate of basic pay payable for 
level V of the Executive Schedule contained in subchapter II of chapter 
53 of title 5, United States Code.
    ``(5) Any reference in any law to the salary schedule in section 
101 (District of Columbia Code, section 4-406) with respect to officers 
and members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division 
shall be considered to be a reference to the salary schedule in 
paragraph (1) of this subsection as adjusted in accordance with this 
subsection.
    ``(6)(A) Except as otherwise permitted by or under law, no 
allowance, differential, bonus, award, or other similar cash payment 
under this title or under title 5, United States Code, may be paid to 
an officer or member of the United States Secret Service Uniformed 
Division in a calendar year if, or to the extent that, when added to 
the total basic pay paid or payable to such officer or member for 
service performed in such calendar year as an officer or member, such 
payment would cause the total to exceed the annual rate of basic pay 
payable for level I of the Executive Schedule, as of the end of such 
calendar year.
    ``(B) This paragraph shall not apply to any payment under the 
following provisions of title 5, United States Code:
            ``(i) Subchapter III or VII of chapter 55, or section 5596.
            ``(ii) Chapter 57 (other than section 5753, 5754, or 5755).
            ``(iii) Chapter 59 (other than section 5928).
    ``(7)(A) Any amount which is not paid to an officer or member of 
the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division in a calendar year 
because of the limitation under paragraph (6) shall be paid to such 
officer or member in a lump sum at the beginning of the following 
calendar year.
    ``(B) Any amount paid under this paragraph in a calendar year shall 
be taken into account for purposes of applying the limitations under 
paragraph (6) with respect to such calendar year.
    ``(8) The Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe 
regulations as may be necessary (consistent with section 5582 of title 
5, United States Code) concerning how a lump-sum payment under 
paragraph (7) shall be made with respect to any employee who dies 
before an amount payable to such employee under paragraph (7) is 
made.''.
    (b) Conversion to New Salary Schedule.--
            (1)(A) Effective on the first day of the first pay period 
        beginning after the date of enactment of this section, the 
        Secretary of the Treasury shall fix the rates of basic pay for 
        members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division 
        in accordance with this paragraph.
            (B) Subject to subparagraph (C), each officer and member 
        receiving basic compensation, immediately prior to the 
        effective date of this section, at one of the scheduled rates 
        in the salary schedule in section 101 of the District of 
        Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, as adjusted 
        by law and as in effect prior to the effective date of this 
        section, shall be placed in and receive basic compensation at 
        the corresponding scheduled service step of the salary schedule 
        under subsection (a)(4).
            (C)(i) The Assistant Chief and the Chief of the United 
        States Secret Service Uniformed Division shall be placed in and 
        receive basic compensation in salary class 10 and salary class 
        11, respectively, in the appropriate service step in the new 
        salary class in accordance with section 304 of the District of 
        Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act 1958 (District of 
        Columbia Code, section 4-413).
            (ii) Each member whose position is to be converted to the 
        salary schedule under section 501(c) of the District of 
        Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (District of 
        Columbia Code, section 4-416(c)) as amended by this section, in 
        accordance with subsection (a) of this section, and who, prior 
        to the effective date of this section has earned, but has not 
        been credited with, an increase in his or her rate of pay shall 
        be afforded that increase before such member is placed in the 
        corresponding service step in the salary schedule under section 
        501(c).
            (2) Except in the cases of the Assistant Chief and the 
        Chief of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division, 
        the conversion of positions and individuals to appropriate 
        classes of the salary schedule under section 501(c) of the 
        District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 
        (District of Columbia Code, section 4-416(c)) as amended by 
        this section, and the initial adjustments of rates of basic pay 
        of those positions and individuals, in accordance with 
        paragraph (1) of this subsection, shall not be considered to be 
        transfers or promotions within the meaning of section 304 of 
        the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 
        1958 (District of Columbia Code, section 4-413).
            (3) Each member whose position is converted to the salary 
        schedule under section 501(c) of the District of Columbia 
        Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (District of Columbia 
        Code, section 4-416(c)) as amended by this section, in 
        accordance with subsection (a) of this section, shall be 
        granted credit for purposes of such member's first service step 
        adjustment under the salary schedule in such section 510(c) for 
        all satisfactory service performed by the member since the 
        member's last increase in basic pay prior to the adjustment 
        under that section.
    (c) Limitation on Pay Period Earnings.--The Act of August 15, 1950 
(64 Stat. 477), (District of Columbia Code, section 4-1104), is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (h), by striking ``any officer or 
        member'' each place it appears and inserting ``an officer or 
        member of the Metropolitan Police force, of the Fire Department 
        of the District of Columbia, or of the United States Park 
        Police'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (h)(3) as subsection (i); 
        and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(3)(A) no premium pay provided by this section shall be 
        paid to, and no compensatory time is authorized for, any 
        officer or member of the United States Secret Service Uniformed 
        Division whose rate of basic pay, combined with any applicable 
locality-based comparability payment, equals or exceeds the lesser of--
                    ``(i) 150 percent of the minimum rate payable for 
                grade GS-15 of the General Schedule (including any 
                applicable locality-based comparability payment under 
                section 5304 of title 5, United States Code or any 
                similar provision of law, and any applicable special 
                rate of pay under section 5305 of title 5, United 
                States Code or any similar provision of law); or
                    ``(ii) the rate payable for level V of the 
                Executive Schedule contained in subchapter II of 
                chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code.
            ``(B) In the case of any officer or member of the United 
        States Secret Service Uniformed Division whose rate of basic 
        pay, combined with any applicable locality-based comparability 
        payment, is less than the lesser of--
                    ``(i) 150 percent of the minimum rate payable for 
                grade GS-15 of the General Schedule (including any 
                applicable locality-based comparability payment under 
                section 5304 of title 5, United States Code or any 
                similar provision of law, and any applicable special 
                rate of pay under section 5305 of title 5, United 
                States Code or any similar provision of law); or
                    ``(ii) the rate payable for level V of the 
                Executive Schedule contained in subchapter II of 
                chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code,
        such premium pay may be paid only to the extent that such 
        payment would not cause such officer or member's aggregate rate 
        of compensation to exceed such lesser amount with respect to 
        any pay period.''.
    (d) Savings Provision.--On the effective date of this section, any 
existing special salary rates authorized for members of the United 
States Secret Service Uniformed Division under section 5305 of title 5, 
United States Code (or any previous similar provision of law) and any 
special rates of pay or special pay adjustments under section 403, 404, 
or 405 of the Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 applicable 
to members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division shall 
be rendered inapplicable.
    (e) Conforming Amendment.--The Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform 
Act of 1990 (104 Stat. 1466) is amended by striking subsections (b)(1) 
and (c)(1) of section 405.
    (f) Effective Date.--The provisions of this section shall become 
effective on the first day of the first pay period beginning after the 
date of enactment.
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