Federal Civilian Workforce Pay Raise Fairness Act of 2019

II 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 790 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JANUARY 31, 2019 Received AN ACT To provide for a pay increase in 2019 for certain civilian employees of the Federal Government, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:40 Aug 02, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H790.RDS H790 jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with BILLS 2 HR 790 RDS SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Civilian Work- 2 force Pay Raise Fairness Act of 2019’’. 3 SEC. 2. PAY INCREASE FOR CERTAIN FEDERAL GOVERN- 4 MENT EMPLOYEES IN 2019. 5 (a) STATUTORY PAY SYSTEMS.—For calendar year 6 2019, the percentage adjustment under section 5303 of 7 title 5, United States Code, in the rates of basic pay under 8 the statutory pay systems (as defined in section 5302 of 9 such title) shall be 2.6 percent. 10 (b) PREVAILING RATE EMPLOYEES.—Notwith- 11 standing the wage survey requirements under section 12 5343(b) of title 5, United States Code, for fiscal year 13 2019, the rates of basic pay (as in effect on the last day 14 of fiscal year 2018 under section 5343(a) of such title) 15 for prevailing rate employees in each wage area and the 16 rates of basic pay under sections 5348 and 5349 of such 17 title shall be increased by 2.6 percent. 18 (c) SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE CAREER AP- 19 POINTEES.—For calendar year 2019, the rate of basic pay 20 for any career position within the Senior Executive Service 21 or the FBI–DEA Senior Executive Service (as that term 22 is defined in section 3151(a) of title 5, United States 23 Code) shall be the rate of pay for any such position on 24 December 31, 2018, increased by 2.6 percent. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:40 Aug 02, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H790.RDS H790 jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with BILLS 3 HR 790 RDS (d) SENIOR-LEVEL AND SCIENTIFIC AND PROFES- 1 SIONAL POSITIONS.—For calendar year 2019, the rates 2 of basic pay for any senior-level and scientific and profes- 3 sional position under section 5376 of title 5, United States 4 Code, shall be the rate of pay for any such position on 5 December 31, 2018, increased by 2.6 percent. 6 (e) EXCEPTED SERVICE.—For calendar year 2019, 7 the rate of basic pay for any position in the excepted serv- 8 ice (as that term is defined by section 2103 of title 5, 9 United States Code) shall be the rate of pay for any such 10 position on December 31, 2018, increased by 2.6 percent. 11 (f) SECRET SERVICE EMPLOYEES.—For calendar 12 year 2019, the rate of basic pay of any employee of the 13 United States Secret Service provided under chapter 102 14 of title 5, United States Code, who did not receive a pay 15 increase by operation of subsections (a) through (e) shall 16 be increased by 2.6 percent. 17 (g) NASA EMPLOYEES.—For calendar year 2019, 18 the rate of basic pay of any employee of the National Aero- 19 nautics and Space Administration provided under chapter 20 98 of title 5, United States Code, who did not receive a 21 pay increase by operation of subsections (a) through (e) 22 shall be increased by 2.6 percent. 23 (h) IRS EMPLOYEES.—For calendar year 2019, the 24 rate of basic pay of any employee of the Internal Revenue 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:40 Aug 02, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H790.RDS H790 jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with BILLS 4 HR 790 RDS Service provided under chapter 95 of title 5, United States 1 Code, who did not receive a pay increase by operation of 2 subsections (a) through (e) shall be increased by 2.6 per- 3 cent. 4 (i) APPLICATION.— 5 (1) IN GENERAL.—The adjustments in pay 6 made under this Act shall apply beginning on the 7 date of enactment of this Act. 8 (2) OTHER ADJUSTMENTS PERMITTED; LIM- 9 ITS.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed to— 10 (A) limit any other increase, including al- 11 lowances, performance awards, or bonuses, oth- 12 erwise permitted under law to any a rate of pay 13 adjusted under this Act; or 14 (B) waive any provision of law, rule, or 15 regulation, including section 5307 of title 5, 16 United States Code, limiting total aggregate 17 pay. 18 Passed the House of Representatives January 30, 2019. Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, Clerk. VerDate Sep 11 2014 20:40 Aug 02, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H790.RDS H790 jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with BILLS