[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3390 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3390

    To provide consistent treatment of overtime, night, and holiday 
   inspection and quarantine services performed by employees of the 
                       Department of Agriculture.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 30, 2001

Mr. Shows (for himself and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government 
 Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period 
    to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide consistent treatment of overtime, night, and holiday 
   inspection and quarantine services performed by employees of the 
                       Department of Agriculture.

    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 ``Department of Agriculture Inspection 
and Quarantine Services Payment Act''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT FOR OVERTIME, NIGHT, AND HOLIDAY INSPECTION AND 
              QUARANTINE SERVICES UNDER DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
              INSPECTION LAWS.

    (a) Consistent Payment Authority.--The Secretary of Agriculture may 
pay employees of the Department of Agriculture employed in 
establishments subject to the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 
U.S.C. 451 et seq.), the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et 
seq.), the Egg Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 1031 et seq.), or any 
other law regarding the inspection or quarantine of agricultural 
products for all overtime, night, and holiday work performed at such 
establishments, at such rates as the Secretary may determine.
    (b) Reimbursement.--The Secretary may require the persons for whom 
overtime, night, or holiday work described in subsection (a) is 
performed to reimburse the Secretary for the amounts paid out by the 
Secretary for such work. Amounts received by the Secretary as 
reimbursement shall be available to the Secretary, without further 
appropriation and until expended, to make payments for such overtime, 
night, and holiday work.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--(1) The second paragraph under the 
heading ``Meat Inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry:'' in the Act of 
July 24, 1919 (7 U.S.C. 394), is repealed.
    (2) Section 25 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
468) is amended by striking ``overtime and holiday'' and all that 
follows through the period at the end of the section and inserting 
``overtime, night, and holiday work covered by section 2 of the 
Department of Agriculture Inspection and Quarantine Services Payment 
Act.''.
    (3) The Act of June 5, 1948 (21 U.S.C. 695), is amended by striking 
``overtime pursuant to the Act of July 24, 1919 (7 U.S.C. 394)'' and 
inserting ``overtime, night, and holiday work covered by section 2 of 
the Department of Agriculture Inspection and Quarantine Services 
Payment Act''.
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