[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 160 (Saturday, September 30, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S4894]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1345. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1292 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Mrs. Murray) to the 
bill H.R. 3935, to amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize 
and improve the Federal Aviation Administration and other civil 
aviation programs, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle A of title II of division B, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. ___. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION FOLLOWING AIRPORT AND 
                   AIRWAY TRUST FUND EXPIRATION.

       (a) In General.--Each employee of the United States 
     Government furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in 
     Airport and Airway Trust Fund expenditure authority shall be 
     paid for the period of the covered lapse, and each excepted 
     employee (as defined in section 1341(c)(1) of title 31, 
     United States Code) who is required to perform work during a 
     covered lapse shall be paid for such work, at the employee's 
     standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the 
     covered lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and 
     subject to availability of funds.
       (b) Use of Leave.--During a covered lapse in Airport and 
     Airway Trust Fund expenditure authority, each excepted 
     employee who is required to perform work shall be entitled to 
     use leave under any existing authority governing the use of 
     leave by the excepted employee, for which compensation shall 
     be paid at the earliest date possible after the covered 
     lapse, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the 
     availability of funds.
       (c) Covered Lapse.--In this section, the term ``covered 
     lapse in Airport and Airway Trust Fund expenditure 
     authority'' means any lapse in authority to make expenditures 
     from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund that begins on October 
     1, 2023, and ends on or before the date of enactment of this 
     Act.
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