[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3500 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3500

 To provide for the compensation of Federal contractor employees that 
   were placed on unpaid leave as a result of the Federal Government 
                   shutdown, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 14, 2013

Ms. Norton (for herself, Ms. Moore, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Carson of Indiana, 
Mr. Rangel, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Conyers, 
Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Jackson Lee, and Ms. Schakowsky) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight 
                         and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the compensation of Federal contractor employees that 
   were placed on unpaid leave as a result of the Federal Government 
                   shutdown, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Low-Wage Federal Contractor Employee 
Back Pay Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. COMPENSATION FOR FURLOUGHED FEDERAL CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEES.

    Division A of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 
113-46) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
    ``Sec. 158.  If a Federal contractor that provides retail, food, 
custodial, and security services to the Federal Government places the 
employees of such contractor on unpaid leave as a result of any lapse 
in appropriations which begins on or about October 1, 2013, the 
Government shall provide compensation to such employees at their 
standard rate of compensation for the period of such lapse.''.
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