[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 304 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 304

  To amend title 31, United States Code, to limit the use of Federal 
   funds for the salaries or expenses of political employees if the 
President's annual budget submission to Congress is late, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2023

 Mr. Marshall 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 amend title 31, United States Code, to limit the use of Federal 
   funds for the salaries or expenses of political employees if the 
President's annual budget submission to Congress is late, 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 ``Presidential Accountability for 
Yearly Submission of The United States' Budget Act'' or the ``PAYSTUB 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR POLITICAL EMPLOYEE 
              SALARIES AND EXPENSES IF PRESIDENT'S BUDGET IS LATE.

    Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(j)(1) If the budget under subsection (a) is not submitted to 
Congress on or before the first Monday in February of a year, for 
service by any political appointee during the period beginning on the 
first Tuesday of February of such year and ending on the date the 
budget is submitted, no Federal funds may be obligated or expended for 
the salary or expenses of the political employee.
    ``(2) Each political employee whose salary and expenses are not 
paid by operation of paragraph (1) shall be paid for the period the 
limitation under such paragraph was in effect at the employee's 
standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after such period 
ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.
    ``(3) In this subsection, the term `political employee' means any 
individual--
            ``(A) occupying a position described under sections 5312 
        through 5316 of title 5 (relating to the Executive Schedule);
            ``(B) serving under a noncareer appointment in the Senior 
        Executive Service, as defined under paragraph (7) of section 
        3132(a) of such title; or
            ``(C) occupying a position in the executive branch of the 
        Government of a confidential or policy-determining character 
        under schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5, Code of 
        Federal Regulations.''.
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