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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Mar 18, 1999
Prohibits the right of a Government employee to be compensated for any period, at such employee's regular rate of compensation, from being abrogated, diminished, or otherwise affected with respect to an officer or employee of the U.S. Government or of the District of Columbia government who is furloughed as a result of a lapse in appropriations. Appropriates necessary funds for such compensation for any period of lapsed appropriations and provides that expenditures shall be charged to the applicable appropriation when enacted. Requires furloughed officers and employees to be compensated at the regular rate of compensation for the period of the furlough.
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Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4] · D–MD
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service.
Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Introduced in House
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