H.R. 4008

119 HR 4008 IH: Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-06-12
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 4008  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   June 12, 2025   Mr. Weber of Texas  (for himself,  Mr. Bacon ,  Mr. Fitzpatrick ,  Mr. Langworthy ,  Mr. Lucas , and  Ms. Stefanik ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on Oversight and Government Reform    A BILL
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide increased locality pay rates to certain Bureau of Prisons employees whose duty stations are located in the pay locality designated as  Rest of U.S. , and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly Act  .
2.
Providing nearest other locality pay rate for certain Bureau of Prisons employees receiving Rest of U.S. locality rate
Section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, is amended—
(1)
by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j); and
(2)
by inserting after subsection (h) the following:
(i)
(1)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and consistent with paragraph (2), the official worksite of an employee of the Bureau of Prisons that is otherwise located in the pay locality designated as  Rest of U.S.  shall be considered to be located in the nearest other pay locality established pursuant to this section.
(2)
For purposes of carrying out paragraph (1)—
(A)
if more than one pay locality is within 200 miles of the official worksite of such an employee, such worksite shall be considered to be located in the pay locality with the highest comparability payment;
(B)
an employee of the Bureau of Prisons shall not be subject to paragraph (1) if the official worksite of such employee is not within 200 miles of any pay locality other than  Rest of U.S. ; and
(C)
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the term  employee  includes any prevailing rate employee (as that term is defined in section 5342).
(3)
This subsection shall begin to apply during any pay period beginning on or after the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection.
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