119-s3001

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3001 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 3001

 To appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal 
 employees, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 October 9, 2025

 Mr. Johnson (for himself, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Risch, and Mr. 
Young) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
 to the Committee on Appropriations

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 A BILL

 To appropriate funds for pay and allowances of excepted Federal 
 employees, 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 ``Shutdown Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section--

    (1) the term ``agency'' means each authority of the 
 executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of 
 the United States; and

    (2) the term ``excepted employee''--
        (A) means an employee of an agency who the head of 
 that agency determines is an excepted employee or an 
 employee performing emergency work, as those terms are 
 defined by the Office of Personnel Management; and
        (B) includes a contractor who--
            (i) provides support to an employee 
 described in subparagraph
        (A) ; and
            (ii) is required to perform work during a 
 lapse in appropriations, as determined by the 
 head of the agency with respect to which the 
 contractor provides support.

    (b) Appropriations.--For fiscal year 2026, or any fiscal year 
thereafter, for any period during which interim or full-year 
appropriations for that fiscal year are not in effect for an agency, 
there are appropriated to the head of the agency, out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are necessary to 
provide pay and allowances to excepted employees of the agency who are 
required to perform work during that period.
            (c) Termination.--Appropriations and funds made available and 
authority granted under subsection

    (b) shall be available to the head 
of an agency until whichever of the following first occurs:

    (1) The enactment into law of appropriations for the agency 
 until the end of the applicable fiscal year (including a 
 continuing appropriation) that provide amounts for the purposes 
 for which amounts are made available under subsection

    (b) .

    (2) The enactment into law of appropriations for the agency 
 until the end of the applicable fiscal year (including a 
 continuing appropriation) without any appropriation for such 
 purposes.
            (d) Subsequent Lapses.--Appropriations made available under 
subsection

    (b) may not be obligated by the head of an agency during any 
period during which continuing appropriations for the purposes for 
which amounts are made available under subsection

    (b) are in effect for 
the agency.

    (e) Charging to Full-Year Appropriations.--Expenditures made by the 
head of an agency pursuant to subsection

    (b) shall be charged to the 
applicable appropriation for the agency whenever a regular 
appropriation bill or a measure making continuing appropriations until 
the end of the applicable fiscal year for the agency becomes law.
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