[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3731 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3731

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
   To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret 
                    Service, 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 ``Secret Service Recruitment and 
Retention Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2018 FOR PROTECTIVE 
              SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--The Overtime Pay for Protective Services Act of 
2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading for section 2, by striking 
        ``2016'' and inserting ``2016 through 2018''; and
            (2) by striking ``during 2016'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``during 2016 through 2018''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if enacted on December 31, 2016.
    (c) Report on Extensions.--Not later than January 30, 2018, and 
January 30, 2019, the Director of the Secret Service shall submit to 
the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on 
the effects of the amendment made by subsection (a)(2). The report 
shall include, with respect to the previous calendar year--
            (1) the total number of United States Secret Service 
        personnel receiving premium pay above the premium pay 
        limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of title 5, United 
        States Code;
            (2) the total amount of premium pay for that calendar year 
        paid to United States Secret Service personnel above the 
        premium pay limitation in such subsection;
            (3) the mean and median amount of premium pay paid to 
        United States Secret Service personnel above the premium pay 
        limitation in such subsection;
            (4) the greatest amount paid to United States Secret 
        Service personnel above the premium pay limitation in such 
        subsection and the number of employees who received that 
        amount;
            (5) notwithstanding the amendments made by subsection (a), 
        the total number of United States Secret Service personnel who 
        were not fully compensated for service because of the premium 
        pay earnings limitation in section 118 of the Treasury and 
        General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547 
        note);
            (6) the total amount of premium pay United States Secret 
        Service personnel would have been paid but for the premium pay 
        earnings limitation in such section; and
            (7) a list of United States Secret Service personnel who, 
        within the calendar year, received premium pay above the 
        premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of section 5547 of 
        title 5, United States Code, and separated from the agency, 
        including the type of separation in each case.

SEC. 3. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES.

    Not later than 1 year after the effective date of this section, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall complete a study and 
submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of 
Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the extent of the 
progress made by the United States Secret Service in implementing the 
recommendations of the United States Secret Service Protective Mission 
Panel, including in particular those items pertaining to training and 
personnel enumerated in the Executive Summary to Report from the United 
States Secret Service Protective Mission Panel to the Secretary of 
Homeland Security dated December 15, 2014.

SEC. 4. RESCISSIONS.

    (a) Rescission of Unobligated Balances in the Department of Justice 
Assets Forfeiture Fund.--Of the unobligated balances available under 
the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund, $10,000,000 is hereby 
permanently rescinded.
    (b) Authorization To Rescind Future Unobligated Balances in the 
Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund.--There is authorized to 
be rescinded from the unobligated balances available under the 
Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund $7,000,000 in fiscal year 
2018 and $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2019.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 5, 2017.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
115th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 3731

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

   To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret 
                    Service, and for other purposes.