[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 725 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 725

  To amend chapter 85 of title 5, United States Code, to clarify that 
      Federal employees excepted from a furlough are eligible for 
           unemployment compensation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 23, 2019

Mrs. Dingell (for herself and Mr. Upton) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend chapter 85 of title 5, United States Code, to clarify that 
      Federal employees excepted from a furlough are eligible for 
           unemployment compensation, 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 ``Pay Federal Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES 
              EXCEPTED FROM FURLOUGH.

    (a) In General.--Section 8502 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f)(1) With respect to any lapse in appropriations beginning on 
or after December 22, 2018, each excepted Federal employee shall be, 
solely for the purpose of determining eligibility for unemployment 
compensation under this subchapter, deemed for the duration of the 
lapse in appropriations to be--
            ``(A) totally separated from Federal service; and
            ``(B) eligible for unemployment compensation benefits under 
        this subchapter with no waiting period for such eligibility to 
        accrue.
    ``(2) In this subsection, the term `excepted Federal employee' 
means a Federal employee who--
            ``(A) is an excepted employee or an employee performing 
        emergency work, as such terms are defined by the Office of 
        Personnel Management; and
            ``(B) is not being paid due to a lapse in 
        appropriations.''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after December 22, 2018.
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