H.R. 4008

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4008 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4008

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.

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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

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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.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Pay Our Correctional Officers Fairly 
Act''.

SEC. 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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