Hazardous Duty Pay for Frontline Federal Workers Act

Hazardous Duty Pay for Frontline Federal Workers Act

This bill temporarily entitles federal employees, including certain employees of the Veterans Health Administration and the Transportation Security Administration, who are exposed to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) during duty to a pay differential, as set by the Office of Personnel Management.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6655 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6655

To provide hazardous duty pay for Federal employees who may be exposed 
                  to COVID-19, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2020

 Mr. Payne (for himself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Correa, Ms. 
 Titus, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Cleaver, and Ms. Barragan) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight 
                               and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide hazardous duty pay for Federal employees who may be exposed 
                  to COVID-19, 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 ``Hazardous Duty Pay for Frontline 
Federal Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. PAY DIFFERENTIAL FOR DUTY RELATED TO COVID-19.

    (a) In General.--Section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e)(1) The Office shall establish a schedule or schedules of pay 
differentials for duty during which an employee is exposed to an 
individual who has (or who has been exposed to) COVID-19.
    ``(2) Under such regulations as the Office may prescribe, during 
the period beginning on March 15, 2020, and ending on September 30, 
2020, an employee to whom chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 
applies, and an employee appointed under chapter 73 or 74 of title 38, 
is entitled to be paid the differential under paragraph (1) for any 
period in which the employee is carrying out the duty described in such 
paragraph.''.
    (b) TSA Employees.--Section 111(d)(2) of the Aviation and 
Transportation Security Act (49 U.S.C. 44935 note) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Hazardous duty pay for covid-19.--The 
                provisions of section 5545(e) of title 5, United States 
                Code, shall to apply to any individual appointed under 
                paragraph (1).''.
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