[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1770 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1770

   To amend title 5, United States Code, to revise the overtime pay 
       limitation for Federal employees, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 1999

  Mr. Cummings (for himself, Mr. Davis of Virginia, and Mrs. Morella) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 5, United States Code, to revise the overtime pay 
       limitation for 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,
That this Act may be cited s the ``Federal Employees' Overtime Pay 
Limitation Amendments Act of 1999''.
    Sec. 2. (a) Title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 5542(a)--
                    (A) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:
            ``(2) For an employee whose basic pay is at a rate which 
        exceeds the minimum rate of basic pay for GS-10 (including any 
        applicable locality-based comparability payment under section 
        5304 or similar provision of law and any applicable special 
        rate of pay under section 5305 or similar provision of law), 
        the overtime hourly rate of pay is an amount equal to the 
        greater of--
                    ``(A) one and one-half times the minimum hourly 
                rate of basic pay for GS-10 (including any applicable 
                locality-based comparability payment under section 5304 
                or similar provision of law and any applicable special 
                rate of pay under section 5305 or similar provision of 
                law); or
                    ``(B) the hourly rate of basic pay of the employee, 
                and all that amount is premium pay.''; and
                    (B) by repealing paragraph (4); and
            (2) in section 5547--
                    (A) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) An employee may be paid premium pay under sections 5542, 
5545(a), (b), and (c), 5545a, and 5546(a) and (b) only to the extent 
that the payment does not cause the aggregate rate of pay for any pay 
period for such employee to exceed the lesser of--
            ``(1) 150 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay payable 
        for GS-15 (including any applicable locality-based 
        comparability payment under section 5304 or similar provision 
        of law and any applicable special rate of pay under section 
        5305 or similar provision of law); or
            ``(2) the rate payable for level V of the Executive 
        Schedule.'';
                    (B) by amending subsection (b)(2) to read as 
                follows:
            ``(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), no employee referred 
        to in such paragraph may be paid premium pay under the 
        provisions of law cited in the first sentence of subsection (a) 
        if, or to the extent that, the aggregate of the basic pay and 
        premium pay under those provisions for such employee would, in 
        any calendar year, exceed the lesser of--
                    ``(A) 150 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay 
                payable for GS-15 in effect at the end of such calendar 
                year (including any applicable locality-based 
                comparability payment under section 5304 or similar 
                provision of law and any applicable special rate of pay 
                under section 5305 or similar provision of law); or
                    ``(B) the rate payable for level V of the Executive 
                Schedule in effect at the end of such calendar year.''; 
                and
                    (C) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
    ``(c) This section shall not apply to any employee of the Federal 
Aviation Administration or the Department of Defense who is paid 
premium pay under section 5546a of this title.''.
    (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the 
first day of the first pay period beginning on or after 180 days 
following the date of enactment of this Act.
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