    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 133, 116th Congress, 1st Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 116-1
    116th Congress

    An Act

    To provide for the compensation of Federal and other government
    employees affected by lapses in appropriations. <>

    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 ``Government Employee Fair Treatment
    Act of 2019''.
    SEC. 2. COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL AND OTHER GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
    AFFECTED BY A LAPSE IN APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
    (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``An officer'' and
    inserting ``Except as specified in this subchapter or any other
    provision of law, an officer''; and
    (2) by adding at the end the following:

    ``(c)(1) <>  In this subsection--
    ``(A) the term `covered lapse in appropriations' means any
    lapse in appropriations that begins on or after December 22,
    2018;
    ``(B) the term `District of Columbia public employer'
    means--
    ``(i) the District of Columbia Courts;
    ``(ii) the Public Defender Service for the District
    of Columbia; or
    ``(iii) the District of Columbia government;
    ``(C) the term `employee' includes an officer; and
    ``(D) the term `excepted employee' means an excepted
    employee or an employee performing emergency work, as such terms
    are defined by the Office of Personnel Management or the
    appropriate District of Columbia public employer, as applicable.

    ``(2) Each employee of the United States Government or of a District
    of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in
    appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in
    appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform
    work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such
    work, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date
    possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled
    pay dates.
    ``(3) During a covered lapse in appropriations, each excepted
    employee who is required to perform work shall be entitled to use leave
    under chapter 63 of title 5, or any other applicable law governing the
    use of leave by the excepted employee, for which

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    compensation shall be paid at the earliest date possible after the lapse
    in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.''.

    Approved January 16, 2019.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 24:
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    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 165 (2019):
    Jan. 10, considered and passed Senate.
    Jan. 11, considered and passed House.