[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5761 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5761

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay 
 rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are 
  located in the pay locality designated as ``Rest of U.S.'', and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 27, 2021

 Mr. Weber of Texas (for himself, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Babin, 
Mr. Crawford, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Stauber, and Mr. Van Drew) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay 
 rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are 
  located in the pay locality designated as ``Rest of U.S.'', 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 Our Correctional Officers Fairly 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVIDING NEAREST OTHER LOCALITY PAY RATE FOR CERTAIN BUREAU OF 
              PRISONS EMPLOYEES RECEIVING REST OF U.S. LOCALITY RATE.

    Section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j) and by inserting after 
subsection (h) the following:
    ``(i)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the 
official worksite of an employee of the Bureau of Prisons that is 
otherwise located in the pay locality designated as `Rest of U.S.' 
shall be considered to be located in the nearest other pay locality 
established pursuant to this section.
    ``(2) An employee of the Bureau of Prisons shall not be subject to 
paragraph (1) if the official worksite of such employee is not located 
within 100 miles of any pay locality other than `Rest of U.S.'.
    ``(3) This subsection shall begin to apply during any pay period 
beginning on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this subsection.''.
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