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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 126 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems and for |
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| 6 | 6 | | prevailing rate employees by 4.3 percent, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY16, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | CHATZ(for himself, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. PADILLA, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. |
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| 11 | 11 | | S |
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| 12 | 12 | | CHIFF, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. KAINE, Ms. WARREN, Mr. VAN |
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| 13 | 13 | | H |
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| 14 | 14 | | OLLEN, Mr. HEINRICH, and Mr. WYDEN) introduced the following bill; |
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| 15 | 15 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Secu- |
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| 16 | 16 | | rity and Governmental Affairs |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems |
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| 19 | 19 | | and for prevailing rate employees by 4.3 percent, and |
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| 20 | 20 | | for other purposes. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Adjustment 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | of Income Rates Act’’ or the ‘‘FAIR Act’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENT TO RATES OF PAY. 6 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (a) S |
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| 28 | 28 | | TATUTORYPAYSYSTEMS.—For calendar year 7 |
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| 29 | 29 | | 2026, the percentage adjustment under section 5303 of 8 |
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| 30 | 30 | | VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:41 Feb 14, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S126.IS S126 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | •S 126 IS |
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| 33 | 33 | | title 5, United States Code, in the rates of basic pay under 1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the statutory pay systems (as defined in section 5302 of 2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | title 5, United States Code) shall be 3.3 percent. 3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (b) P |
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| 37 | 37 | | REVAILING RATEEMPLOYEES.—Notwith-4 |
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| 38 | 38 | | standing the wage survey requirements under section 5 |
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| 39 | 39 | | 5343(b) of title 5, United States Code, for fiscal year 6 |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2026, the rates of basic pay (as in effect on the last day 7 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of fiscal year 2025 under section 5343(a) of such title) 8 |
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| 42 | 42 | | for prevailing rate employees in each wage area and the 9 |
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| 43 | 43 | | rates of basic pay under sections 5348 and 5349 of such 10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | title shall be increased by 3.3 percent. 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | SEC. 3. ADJUSTMENT TO LOCALITY PAY. 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | For calendar year 2026, the percentage adjustment 13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, shall 14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | be an increase of 1 percent. 15 |
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