US Congress Senate Bill 162 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 44-3-2)
Status: Introduced on January 16 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-01-16 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Appropriates funding to provide compensation to certain employees of contractors who lost pay or leave due to the lapse in appropriations that began on December 22, 2018. Each agency subject to such lapse shall adjust the price of any contract for which the contractor was ordered to suspend, delay, or stop work as a result of the lapse. The agency shall compensate the contractor for reasonable costs incurred to (1) provide compensation, at an employee's standard rate of compensation, to any employee who was furloughed or laid off, or who was not working, who experienced a reduction of hours, or who experienced a reduction in compensation, as a result of the lapse, for the period of the lapse; or (2) restore paid leave taken by any employee during the lapse, if the contractor required employees to use paid leave as a result of the lapse. The maximum amount of weekly compensation of an employee for which an adjustment may be made may not exceed the lesser of the employee's actual weekly compensation or $965.

Fair Compensation for Low-Wage Contractor Employees Act of 2019

Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Doug Jones [D-AL]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Jacky Rosen [D-NV]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Joe Manchin [D-WV]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-16	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

HB678 (Same As) 2019-01-17 - Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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.
HB824 (Related) 2019-01-28 - Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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.
HB3055 (Related) 2019-11-21 - Became Public Law No: 116-69. (TXT | PDF)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/162/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s162/BILLS-116s162is.pdf