[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3727 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3727

 To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that premium pay be 
paid to Federal employees whose official duties require the use of one 
                   or more languages besides English.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 2, 2007

  Mr. Honda (for himself, Mr. Pastor, and Mr. Fortuno) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that premium pay be 
paid to Federal employees whose official duties require the use of one 
                   or more languages besides English.

    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 ``One America, Many Voices Act''.

SEC. 2. PREMIUM PAY FOR MULTILINGUAL PROFICIENCY.

    (a) In General.--Section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e)(1) An employee in a position requiring the use of one or more 
languages besides English is entitled to his rate of basic pay plus 
premium pay amounting to 5 percent of that rate.
    ``(2) This subsection does not apply to an employee in a position 
the classification of which takes into account the language requirement 
referred to in paragraph (1), except--
            ``(A) to the extent that the rates of basic pay for the 
        position are not at least 5 percent greater than the rates that 
        would otherwise apply in the absence of the language 
        requirement; and
            ``(B) in such other circumstances as the Office may by 
        regulation prescribe.
    ``(3) The Office shall prescribe any regulations necessary to carry 
out this subsection.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) The heading for section 5545 of title 5, United States 
        Code, is amended by striking ``and hazardous'' and inserting 
        ``, hazardous, and multilingual-proficiency''.
            (2) The table of sections for chapter 55 of title 5, United 
        States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to 
        section 5545 and inserting the following:

``5545. Night, standby, irregular, hazardous, and multilingual-
                            proficiency duty differential.''.
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