[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3246 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3246

   To amend the Pay Our Military Act to ensure that all civilian and 
 contractor employees of the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard 
            are paid in the event of a Government shutdown.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 4, 2013

  Mr. Turner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, 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 amend the Pay Our Military Act to ensure that all civilian and 
 contractor employees of the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard 
            are paid in the event of a Government shutdown.

    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 ``Support Our Department of Defense 
Civilian Employees Act''.

SEC. 2. CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS OF 
              DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND RESERVE COMPONENT PERSONNEL.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that all 
civilian employees and contractors of the Department of Defense and the 
Coast Guard serve to provide support to members of the Armed Forces.
    (b) Amendments To Pay Our Military Act.--Subsection (a) of section 
2 of the Pay Our Military Act (HR 3210 of the 113th Congress) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``the civilian personnel'' and 
                inserting ``all civilian personnel''; and
                    (B) by striking ``whom the Secretary concerned 
                determines are providing support to members of the 
                Armed Forces described in paragraph (1)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by striking ``pay and allowances to'' and 
                inserting ``compensation to all employees of''; and
                    (B) by striking ``whom the Secretary concerned 
                determines are providing support to members of the 
                Armed Forces described in paragraph (1)''.
    (c) Treatment of Previously Furloughed Employees.--Subsection (b) 
of such section is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Treatment of Previously Furloughed Employees.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, the Secretary of Defense (and the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security with respect to the Coast Guard) shall ensure that all 
        personnel described in paragraph (2) are treated as `retained' 
        or `excepted' status, as those terms are used in the Office of 
        Management and Budget Circular A-11, during the period for 
        which continuing appropriations are made available pursuant to 
        subsection (a), effective as of the date of the enactment of 
        the Support Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act.
            ``(2) Personnel described.--Personnel described in this 
        paragraph are civilian personnel of the Department of Defense 
        or the Coast Guard that the Secretary of Defense (or the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard) 
        determined were not in `retained' or `excepted' status, as 
        those terms are used in the Office of Management and Budget 
        Circular A-11, at any time during the period beginning on 
        October 1, 2013, and ending on the date of the enactment of the 
        Support Our Department of Defense Civilian Employees Act.''.
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