United States Statutes at Large, Volume 132, 115th Congress, 2nd Session

[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 132, 115th Congress, 2nd Session]
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Public Law 115-160
115th Congress

An Act


 
To provide overtime pay for employees of the United States Secret
Service, 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 ``Secret Service Recruitment and
Retention Act of 2018''.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OVERTIME PAY EXCEPTION THROUGH 2018 FOR
PROTECTIVE SERVICES.

(a) Amendments.--
(1) In general.--Section 2 of the Overtime Pay for
Protective Services Act of 2016 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note) is
amended--
(A) in the section heading, by striking ``in 2016''
and inserting ``during 2016 through 2018'';
(B) in subsection (a), by striking ``2016'' and
inserting ``2016, 2017, or 2018''; and
(C) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (1) and
inserting the following:
``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, including section 5547(a) of title 5, United States Code,
and only to the extent that an appropriation is provided
specifically in an appropriations Act for premium pay in excess
of the annual equivalent of the limitation on the rate of pay
contained in section 5547(a), any covered employee may receive
premium pay during 2016, 2017, and 2018, to the extent provided
under section 118 of the Treasury and General Government
Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note).''.
(2) Clarifying provision.--Section 118 of the Treasury and
General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547 note)
is amended, in the first sentence, by inserting ``or 3056A''
after ``section 3056(a)''.

(b) <>  Effective Date.--The amendments made
by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on December 31, 2016.

(c) Report on Extensions.--Not later than January 30, 2018, and
January 30, 2019, the Director of the Secret Service shall submit to the
Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the
effects of the amendment made by subsection (a)(2). The report shall
include, with respect to the previous calendar year--

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(1) the total number of United States Secret Service
personnel receiving premium pay above the premium pay limitation
in subsection (a) of section 5547 of title 5, United States
Code;
(2) the total amount of premium pay for that calendar year
paid to United States Secret Service personnel above the premium
pay limitation in such subsection;
(3) the mean and median amount of premium pay paid to United
States Secret Service personnel above the premium pay limitation
in such subsection;
(4) the greatest amount paid to United States Secret Service
personnel above the premium pay limitation in such subsection
and the number of employees who received that amount;
(5) notwithstanding the amendments made by subsection (a),
the total number of United States Secret Service personnel who
were not fully compensated for service because of the premium
pay earnings limitation in section 118 of the Treasury and
General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (5 U.S.C. 5547
note);
(6) the total amount of premium pay United States Secret
Service personnel would have been paid but for the premium pay
earnings limitation in such section; and
(7) <>  a list of United States Secret Service
personnel who, within the calendar year, received premium pay
above the premium pay limitation in subsection (a) of section
5547 of title 5, United States Code, and separated from the
agency, including the type of separation in each case.
SEC. 3. REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES.

Not later than 1 year after the effective date of this section, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall complete a study and
submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of
Representatives, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate a report on the extent of the progress made by the
United States Secret Service in implementing the recommendations of the
United States Secret Service Protective Mission Panel, including in
particular those items pertaining to training and personnel enumerated
in the Executive Summary to Report from the United States Secret Service
Protective Mission


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Panel to the Secretary of Homeland Security dated December 15, 2014.

Approved April 3, 2018.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3731:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 115-435, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Oversight and Government
Reform).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Vol. 163 (2017):
Dec. 5, considered and passed House.
Vol. 164 (2018):
Mar. 19, considered and passed
Senate, amended.
Mar. 21, House concurred in Senate
amendment.