[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3314]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4274. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and Mr. Booker) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title XI, add the following:

     SEC. 1114. PAY PARITY FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EMPLOYEES 
                   EMPLOYED AT JOINT BASES.

       (a) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
       (1) the term ``covered joint military installation'' means 
     a joint military installation--
       (A) created as a result of the recommendations of the 
     Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission in the 2005 
     base closure round; and
       (B) for which the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory 
     Committee has recommended that the Office of Personnel 
     Management consolidate to be within the same pay locality;
       (2) the term ``joint military installation'' means 2 or 
     more military installations reorganized or otherwise 
     associated and operated as a single military installation;
       (3) the term ``locality pay'' means any amount payable 
     under section 5304 or 5304a of title 5, United States Code; 
     and
       (4) the term ``pay locality'' has the meaning given that 
     term by section 5302(5) of title 5, United States Code.
       (b) Pay Parity at Joint Bases.--If 2 or more military 
     installations were reorganized or otherwise associated as a 
     single covered joint military installation, and the 
     constituent installations are not all located within the same 
     pay locality, all Department of Defense employees of the 
     respective installations constituting the covered joint 
     military installation (who are otherwise entitled to locality 
     pay) shall receive locality pay at a uniform percentage equal 
     to the percentage which is payable with respect to the pay 
     locality which includes the constituent installation then 
     receiving the highest locality pay (expressed as a 
     percentage).
       (c) Regulations.--The Office of Personnel Management shall 
     prescribe regulations to carry out this section.
       (d) Applicability.--This section shall apply with respect 
     to pay periods beginning on or after such date (not later 
     than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act) as the 
     Secretary of Defense shall determine, in consultation with 
     the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
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