True Shutdown Fairness Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Provides shutdown appropriations to pay federal workers, contractors, and service members during the 2025 lapse and blocks reductions in force and extended administrative leave during that lapse.
Who Benefits and How
Covered workers and contractors could receive pay and job protections during the covered shutdown period.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal funding resources would cover the compensation and agencies would lose some flexibility to restructure staffing or place employees on lengthy administrative leave during the lapse.
Key Provisions
- Appropriates the sums necessary to compensate covered federal employees, contractors, and service members during the covered lapse.
- Bars agencies from proposing or implementing reductions in force or placing employees on more than 10 work days of administrative leave during the covered lapse.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Provides shutdown appropriations to pay federal workers, contractors, and service members during the 2025 lapse and blocks reductions in force and extended administrative leave during that lapse.
Key Policy Areas
Government Operations, Labor
Primary Purpose
Provides shutdown appropriations to pay federal workers, contractors, and service members during the 2025 lapse and blocks reductions in force and extended administrative leave during that lapse.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Covered federal workers, contractors, and service members during the covered shutdown
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal funding resources and agencies restricted from using certain workforce actions during the covered lapse
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Van Hollen (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mrs. Murray, Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Covered federal employees receiving shutdown-period compensation protection, Employees protected from reductions in force and extended administrative leave during the covered lapse
Federal agencies restricted from using reductions in force and extended administrative leave during the covered lapse, Federal funding resources used for shutdown-period compensation
Covered contractors receiving shutdown-period payment support
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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