[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
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[H.R. 3731 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3731

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen


                                 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 2018''.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2018 FOR PROTECTIVE 
SERVICES.
    (a) Amendments.--
        (1) In general.--Section 2 of the Overtime Pay for Protective 
    Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is amended--
            (A) in the section heading, by striking ``in 2016'' and 
        inserting ``during 2016 through 2018'';
            (B) in subsection (a), by striking ``2016'' and inserting 
        ``2016, 2017, or 2018''; and
            (C) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (1) and 
        inserting the following:
        ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
    including section 5547(a) of title 5, United States Code, and only 
    to the extent that an appropriation is provided specifically in an 
    appropriations Act for premium pay in excess of the annual 
    equivalent of the limitation on the rate of pay contained in 
    section 5547(a), any covered employee may receive premium pay 
    during 2016, 2017, and 2018, to the extent provided under section 
    118 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 
    (5 U.S.C. 5547 note).''.
        (2) Clarifying provision.--Section 118 of the Treasury and 
    General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is 
    amended, in the first sentence, by inserting ``or 3056A'' after 
    ``section 3056(a)''.
    (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.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.