[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  CLARIFICATION OF EFFECTIVE DATE OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE BORDER 
                  PATROL AGENT PAY REFORM ACT OF 2014

  Mr. HURD of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform be discharged from further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 2252) to clarify the effective date of 
certain provisions of the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014, 
and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the 
House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 2252

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. CLARIFICATION OF EFFECTIVE DATE OF CERTAIN 
                   PROVISIONS OF THE BORDER PATROL AGENT PAY 
                   REFORM ACT OF 2014.

       (a) In General.--Section 2 of the Border Patrol Agent Pay 
     Reform Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-277) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following:
       ``(i) Effective Date.--Subsections (b), (c), (d), and (g), 
     and the amendments made by such subsections, shall take 
     effect on the first day of the first pay period beginning on 
     or after January 1, 2016, except that--
       ``(1) any provision in section 5550(b) of title 5, United 
     States Code, as added by subsection (b), relating to 
     administering elections and making advance assignments to a 
     regular tour of duty shall be applicable before such 
     effective date to the extent determined necessary by the 
     Director of the Office of Personnel Management; and
       ``(2) the Director may issue regulations as necessary prior 
     to such effective date.''.
       (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall be deemed to have been enacted on the date of enactment 
     of the Border Patrol Agent Pay Reform Act of 2014 (Public Law 
     113-277).

  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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