No Government No Pay Act of 2018

No Government No Pay Act of 2018

This bill prohibits Members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown, beginning with the 116th Congress.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2327 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2327

 To prohibit paying Members of Congress during periods during which a 
       Government shutdown is in effect, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 19, 2018

 Ms. Heitkamp (for herself, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Tester, Ms. Stabenow, 
  Mr. Manchin, Mr. Brown, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Smith, Mr. Peters, and Mr. 
Casey) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
     to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit paying Members of Congress during periods during which a 
       Government shutdown is in effect, 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 ``No Government No Pay Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING PAYING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN RESPONSE TO 
              GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

    (a) Prohibition of Pay.--For any pay period during which a 
Government shutdown is in effect, the payroll administrator of each 
House of Congress shall exclude from the payments otherwise required to 
be made with respect to that pay period for the compensation of each 
Member of Congress who serves in that House of Congress an amount equal 
to the product of--
            (1) the daily rate of pay of the Member of Congress under 
        section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
        U.S.C. 4501); and
            (2) the number of 24-hour periods during the pay period 
        during which the Government shutdown is in effect.
    (b) Role of Secretary of the Treasury.--The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall provide the payroll administrator of each House of 
Congress with such assistance as may be necessary to enable the payroll 
administrator to carry out this Act.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``Government shutdown'' means a lapse in 
        appropriations for 1 or more Federal agencies or departments as 
        a result of a failure to enact a regular appropriations bill or 
        continuing resolution;
            (2) the term ``Member of Congress'' means an individual 
        serving in a position covered under subparagraph (A), (B), or 
        (C) of section 601(a)(1) of the Legislative Reorganization Act 
        of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 4501(1)); and
            (3) the term ``payroll administrator'', with respect to a 
        House of Congress, means--
                    (A) in the case of the House of Representatives, 
                the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of 
                Representatives, or an employee of the Office of the 
                Chief Administrative Officer who is designated by the 
                Chief Administrative Officer to carry out this Act; and
                    (B) in the case of the Senate, the Secretary of the 
                Senate, or an employee of the Office of the Secretary 
                of the Senate who is designated by the Secretary to 
                carry out this Act.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall apply on and after the date on which the One Hundred 
Sixteenth Congress convenes.
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