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Introduced Session

To provide back pay to low-wage contractor employees, and for other purposes. This bill 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.

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Ayanna Pressley (D)*,  Alma Adams (D),  Cindy Axne (D),  Karen Bass (D),  Don Beyer (D),  Sanford Bishop (D),  Suzanne Bonamici (D),  Julia Brownley (D),  G. Butterfield (D),  Salud Carbajal (D),  Katherine Clark (D),  Yvette Clarke (D),  Lacy Clay (D),  Jim Clyburn (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Gerry Connolly (D),  Jim Cooper (D),  Suzan DelBene (D),  Val Demings (D),  Mark DeSaulnier (D),  Marcia Fudge (D),  Chuy García (D),  Debra Haaland (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Jahana Hayes (D),  Katie Hill (D),  Kendra Horn (D),  Steven Horsford (D),  Pramila Jayapal (D),  Joseph Kennedy (D),  Ann Kuster (D),  Brenda Lawrence (D),  Al Lawson (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  John Lewis (D),  Zoe Lofgren (D),  Ben Ray Luján (D),  Stephen Lynch (D),  Betty McCollum (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Gregory Meeks (D),  Gwen Moore (D),  Seth Moulton (D),  Jerry Nadler (D),  Joe Neguse (D),  Donald Norcross (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D),  Ilhan Omar (D),  Chris Pappas (D),  Stacey Plaskett (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Jamie Raskin (D),  Kathleen Rice (D),  Cedric Richmond (D),  John Sarbanes (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Bobby Scott (D),  David Scott (D),  Terri Sewell (D),  Albio Sires (D),  Mike Thompson (D),  Rashida Tlaib (D),  Norma Torres (D),  Lori Trahan (D),  David Trone (D),  Jeff Van Drew (R),  Filemón Vela (D),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Bonnie Watson Coleman (D),  Jennifer Wexton (D),  Frederica Wilson (D), 

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. (on 01/17/2019)

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