Military and Federal Employee Protection Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Retroactively appropriates money to pay federal employees, contractors, and service members for compensation lost during the 2025 shutdown and treats furloughed time as fully compensated.
Who Benefits and How
Affected workers and contractors could receive full back pay and benefits for the covered period, including furlough time.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal funding resources would bear the back-pay cost and agencies would need to issue payments quickly.
Key Provisions
- Appropriates the sums necessary to provide standard compensation for the covered period to covered individuals who lost compensation or were furloughed.
- Requires agencies to provide the compensation as soon as practicable and not later than seven days after enactment.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Retroactively appropriates money to pay federal employees, contractors, and service members for compensation lost during the 2025 shutdown and treats furloughed time as fully compensated.
Key Policy Areas
Government Operations, Labor
Primary Purpose
Retroactively appropriates money to pay federal employees, contractors, and service members for compensation lost during the 2025 shutdown and treats furloughed time as fully compensated.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Covered employees, contractors, and service members receiving back pay
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal funding resources and agencies responsible for issuing the compensation
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Peters (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
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
Covered contractors receiving shutdown-period payment support
Federal funding resources used for shutdown-period compensation
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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