[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2696 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2696

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for more equitable 
    policies relating to overtime pay for Federal employees and the 
                 accumulation and use of credit hours.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 4, 1999

Mr. Davis of Virginia 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 provide for more equitable 
    policies relating to overtime pay for Federal employees and the 
                 accumulation and use of credit hours.

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

SECTION 1. OVERTIME PAY.

    (a) In General.--Section 5542(a) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``GS-10'' and inserting 
        ``GS-12''; and
            (2) 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-12 (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-12 (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.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Paragraph (4) of section 5542(a) of 
title 5, United States Code, is repealed.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect at the start of the first full pay period in the first calendar 
year beginning at least 9 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act.

SEC. 2. ACCUMULATION AND USE OF CREDIT HOURS BY MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR 
              EXECUTIVE SERVICE ON FLEXIBLE SCHEDULES.

    Section 6126 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(c) Any limitations (or other terms or conditions) governing the 
accumulation or use of credit hours shall apply equally to all career 
employees in the civil service (or, if promulgated by an agency, within 
such agency), including those in the Senior Executive Service or 
another equivalent system.''.
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