1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Never Again Act”.
Never Again Act
A BILL
To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide pay to employees excepted from furlough during a Government shutdown, and for other purposes.
2. Providing salaries to excepted employees during a Government shutdown
Section 1341 of title 31, United States Code, is amended in subsection (c), as added by the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
“(2)
“(A) Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after such lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.
“(B)
“(i) With respect to the lapse in appropriations beginning on or around December 22, 2018—
“(I) each excepted employee who was required to perform work during the period beginning on the first day of such lapse and ending on the date of enactment of the Never Again Act shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the date of enactment, regardless of scheduled pay dates; and
“(II) for the remainder of such lapse, each excepted employee who is required to perform work during such remainder shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, on the employee’s scheduled pay dates.
“(ii) During any covered lapse in appropriations beginning after the lapse in appropriations described in clause (i) ends, each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee’s standard rate of pay, on the employee’s scheduled pay dates.
“(iii) There are appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this subparagraph.”