[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1313 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1313

     To enable the State of Rhode Island to meet the criteria for 
   recommendation as an Area of Application to the Boston-Worcester-
Lawrence; Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut Federal 
                           locality pay area.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 1, 1999

 Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Chafee) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To enable the State of Rhode Island to meet the criteria for 
   recommendation as an Area of Application to the Boston-Worcester-
Lawrence; Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut Federal 
                           locality pay area.

    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 ``Rhode Island Federal Worker Fairness 
Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL LOCALITY PAY IN RHODE ISLAND.

    Section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(j) For purposes of this section, the 5 counties of the State of 
Rhode Island (including Providence, Bristol, Newport, Kent, and 
Washington counties) shall be considered as 1 county, adjacent to the 
Boston-Worcester-Lawrence; Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and 
Connecticut locality pay area and the Hartford, Connecticut locality 
pay area.''.
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