HR 4827 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

Introduced Jan 18, 2018 Originated House Sponsor Donald S. Beyer, Jr. D-VA

Latest action · Jan 18, 2018 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJan 18, 2018
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

This bill requires federal employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations that begins on or about January 19, 2018, to be compensated at their standard rate of compensation for the period of such lapse as soon as practicable after such lapse ends.

Cosponsors 101

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 18, 2018 to Apr 16, 2018; 39 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown	Original	Jan 18, 2018
R-VA	Barbara Comstock	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NC	David E. Price	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-WA	Derek Kilmer	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-MD	Jamie Raskin	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-CA	John Garamendi	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-MD	John K. Delaney	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-CA	Juan Vargas	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Jan 18, 2018
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	Jan 18, 2018
R-OK	Tom Cole	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Jan 18, 2018
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin		Jan 19, 2018
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Jan 19, 2018
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Jan 19, 2018
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Jan 19, 2018
D-IN	André Carson		Jan 19, 2018
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jan 19, 2018
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jan 19, 2018
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jan 19, 2018
D-IL	Bill Foster		Jan 19, 2018
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Jan 19, 2018
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Jan 19, 2018
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Jan 19, 2018
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Jan 19, 2018
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Jan 19, 2018
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Jan 19, 2018
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jan 19, 2018
D-FL	Darren Soto		Jan 19, 2018
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Jan 19, 2018
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik		Jan 19, 2018
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Jan 19, 2018
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Jan 19, 2018
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Jan 19, 2018
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Jan 19, 2018
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith		Jan 19, 2018
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jan 19, 2018
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jan 19, 2018
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jan 19, 2018
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Jan 19, 2018
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Jan 19, 2018
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jan 19, 2018
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jan 19, 2018
D-GA	John Lewis		Jan 19, 2018
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Jan 19, 2018
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jan 19, 2018
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Jan 19, 2018
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Jan 19, 2018
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Jan 19, 2018
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jan 19, 2018
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jan 19, 2018
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Jan 19, 2018
D-VI	Stacey E. Plaskett		Jan 19, 2018
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jan 19, 2018
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jan 19, 2018
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		Jan 19, 2018
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Jan 19, 2018
D-WA	Adam Smith		Jan 22, 2018
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jan 22, 2018
D-CA	Jim Costa		Jan 22, 2018
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Jan 22, 2018
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Jan 22, 2018
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jan 22, 2018
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Jan 30, 2018
D-CA	J. Luis Correa		Jan 30, 2018
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jan 30, 2018
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Jan 30, 2018
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Jan 30, 2018
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Jan 30, 2018
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Feb 15, 2018
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Feb 27, 2018
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Feb 27, 2018
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Mar 20, 2018
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Apr 16, 2018

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Oversight and Government Reform Committee	Referred Jan 18, 2018

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jan 18, 2018Introduced in House
Jan 18, 2018Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Clause 7 of section 9 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 11, January 18, 2018, page H554.

Related bills 4

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 4694	Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act	Related bill	Dec 20, 2017
HR 4961	Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act	Related bill	Feb 7, 2018
HR 5391	Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act	Related bill	Mar 22, 2018
HR 7368	Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act	Related bill	Dec 20, 2018

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To provide for the compensation of Federal employees furloughed during a Government shutdown.
Short Titles as Introduced: Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 18, 2018Introduced in House

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