[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 554 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 554

  To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by a 
                        lapse in appropriations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 24, 2015

   Mr. Cardin (for himself, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Udall, Mr. Leahy, Mrs. 
  Gillibrand, Mr. Kaine, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Warner, Mr. 
    Sanders, Mr. Carper, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Baldwin, and Ms. Hirono) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the compensation of Federal employees affected by a 
                        lapse in appropriations.

    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 ``Federal Employee Retroactive Pay 
Fairness Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY A LAPSE IN 
              APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``covered lapse in appropriations'' means the 
        lapse in appropriations that begins on or about February 28, 
        2015; and
            (2) the term ``excepted employee'' means an excepted 
        employee or an employee performing emergency work, as such 
        terms are defined by the Office of Personnel Management.
    (b) Compensation for Employees.--Each Federal employee furloughed 
as a result of the covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for 
the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee 
who is required to perform work during the covered lapse in 
appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee's standard 
rate of pay at the earliest date possible after the lapse in 
appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.
    (c) Leave for Excepted Employees Required to Perform Work.--
Notwithstanding subchapter III of chapter 13 of title 31, United States 
Code, during the covered lapse in appropriations, each excepted 
employee who is required to perform work shall be entitled to use leave 
under chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, or any other 
applicable law governing the use of leave by the excepted employee, for 
which compensation shall be paid at the earliest date possible after 
the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.
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