[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 133, 116th Congress, 1st Session]
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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.